Update 4/29

Phew!

Things have been slow on the FOIA front but great in every other way. We are still waiting for the court’s decision in a pivotal FOIA lawsuit on whether GLOMAR can stand against DNC hack attribution documents. It’s been nearly 7 weeks since the last filing. It should come any day now, it’s been slowing down production on other requests as well.

The opposing party just filed their reply brief in the Georgia Supreme Court tonight (unavailable to the public). Last week we had an Amicus filing in support of our position from the Georgia First Amendment Foundation. Let’s just say things are going well. Oral arguments are in June, and I do not expect a decision to take long because the case is quite narrow on a legal issue and the statutory language and all the existing case law out there supports our position.

In anticipation of returning to the trial court, my anxiety had been building owing to the ever-increasing legal costs we have incurred. That led me to return to options trading and we made extraordinary returns last week including 12800%, 5965%, 3441%, and 581% on four of our positions, netting us six figure profits with some additional still-unrealized gains out there in the healthy five figures.

It’s more and more likely that I will write a book on this whole experience. If I write it well, it’s becoming a good story, particularly if we win at the Georgia Supreme Court after I was sanctioned at the trial court.

I’m going to revisit running radio ads in Washington DC as well. Given our financial success, it is now much more feasible to do.

I’m also contemplating a true jump to independent journalism where I delve into other topics with FOIA and Open Records laws. We’re going to give it a few weeks to consider.

I should have an update from my FOIA lawsuit soon, and I do intend to write a couple other pieces this week.