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![What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Jeff Kelly Lowenstein](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/09/12/chat.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Jeff Kelly Lowenstein
Last week on Slack, we chatted with Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, one of the reporters whose work led to the release of over 11 million records related to lottery winners. Here’s what he had to share on managing national projects, and making the leap to to global reporting.
![FCC releases complaints from Michelle Wolf's infamous White House Correspondents Dinner remarks](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/05/10/MW.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
FCC releases complaints from Michelle Wolf’s infamous White House Correspondents Dinner remarks
The Federal Communications Commission has released 13 pages of complaints received regarding the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner, focused mainly on Michelle Wolf’s controversial remarks. While most took issue with Wolf’s language (one viewer equated network profanity with bank fraud) , one irate Floridian went so far as to demand a written apology to the “American People.”
![FBI cites pending proceedings in 25-year old BCCI bank fraud case](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/12/20/BCC.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
FBI cites pending proceedings in 25-year old BCCI bank fraud case
Decades after the fact, both the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation remain highly secretive about parts of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International money laundering and embezzling investigation and the story of Khalid bin Mahfouz. While the FBI released some documents on Bin Mahfouz and BCCI, with portions remaining redacted under citations of a pending law enforcement proceedings, the CIA flatly refuses to confirm or deny any information on Bin Mahfouz, despite a former CIA Director having publicly (and falsely) accused him of being Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law.
![Jim Garrison’s incendiary JFK probe protected him from fraud charges](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/08/02/JFKcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Jim Garrison’s incendiary JFK probe protected him from fraud charges
While popular media has often portrayed Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney behind the infamous Clay Shaw trial, as having been targeted by the federal government for retribution, a look at his FBI file reveals the exact opposite - according to the documents, Garrison’s investigation was considered so toxic and aggressive that Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered no agents have any contact with him. When third parties began providing the FBI with evidence that Garrison had engaged in fraud against the government, the Bureau cautioned against investigating him, precisely because of how Garrison would inevitably frame it.
![Five heartbreaking examples of why the bail bonds industry is badly in need of reform](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/07/31/bbbb.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Five heartbreaking examples of why the bail bonds industry is badly in need of reform
459 pages of complaints from the Nevada Division of Insurance (NDOI) related to bail bondsman point to epidemic in the state: bounty hunters in a largely unregulated industry are routinely using that vacuum to line their own pockets or abuse their customers.
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