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Jason Leopold

Angels Camp, Beverly Hills

Investigative Reporter at Bloomberg News

Investigative Reporter @business. 'FOIA terrorist.' Band Tshirt hoarder. Subscribe to my newsletter FOIA Files [email protected] Signal 213-270-4334.

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  • 1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Jason Leopold

    Newly released emails obtained by FOIA Files reveal the number of inspectors general fired by Trump and how the securities regulator’s watchdog prepared for the possibility she would be next. Welcome back to FOIA Files! Just four days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, he fired several agency watchdogs—inspectors general—that investigate claims of waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending.

  • 2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Jason Leopold

    When the then-former president was under investigation for unlawfully retaining classified documents, he filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the National Archives for a wide range of records about his case. It wasn’t the first time Trump wielded the public records tool.

  • 3 weeks ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Jason Leopold |Iain Marlow

    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Agency for International Development will be merged into the State Department by July 1 and “substantially all” of the aid agency’s remaining personnel will be fired, according to a congressional notification sent Friday.

  • 3 weeks ago | thelcn.com | Jason Leopold |Iain Marlow

    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Agency for International Development will be merged into the State Department by July 1 and “substantially all” of the aid agency’s remaining personnel will be fired, according to a congressional notification sent Friday.

  • 3 weeks ago | bloomberglinea.com | Jason Leopold |Iain Marlow

    Bloomberg — La Agencia de Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional se fusionará con el Departamento de Estado el 1 de julio y “prácticamente todo” el personal restante de la agencia de ayuda será despedido, según una notificación del Congreso enviada el viernes.

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Jason Leopold
Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold
5 Apr 25

RT @SABEW: Thank you @JasonLeopold, @deanemurphy, @DavidCuillier, & Ziva Branstetter for sharing strategies on how to use FOIAs to get info…

Jason Leopold
Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold
5 Apr 25

RT @JasonLeopold: NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! Trump Filed a #FOIA Request. So I FOIAed His FOIA. https://t.co/6CId24JnXP

Jason Leopold
Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold
1 Apr 25

The FOIA pages are now back up at CDC. Someone clearly took more of this. https://t.co/IFMjSnVpYs

Jason Leopold
Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold

NEW: CDC #FOIA page are being dismantled, including pages containing FOIA request logs and the portal to submit FOIA requests.