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Philadelphia plans to bar reporters from attending a city-run conference this week where public officials will discuss the city’s finances and budget in an effort to attract potential investors.
The two-day Philadelphia Investor Conference, which begins Thursday, is considered a private meeting under Pennsylvania’s Open Meetings Act, said Mark McDonald, a spokesman for Michael Nutter, the city’s mayor.
Led by Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing Thursday to address concerns regarding a clause in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that shields public access to certain records and information obtained by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Fox News appealed a federal court decision on Wednesday that allows the U.S. Federal Reserve to keep secret the names of financial firms that borrowed from bailout lending programs.
The string of FOIA lawsuits for release of records of the government's emergency lending programs finally saw its first victory Monday. The Federal Reserve Board must release to Bloomberg News records identifying the financial firms it loaned bailout funds to as well as the assets or amounts put up as collateral, the news agency reported.
Realizing litigation may be the best option to receive records related to the financial industry bailout, yet another news organization lawsuit has joined the FOIA lawsuit parade.
The New York Timesfiled a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act on March 23 seeking documents from the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury Department. The newspaper’s various FOIA requests have gone unfilled, according to the complaint.
The Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University's School of Communications just launched a new tool that makes it easier to check up on the health of banks receiving government bailout funds.
The project, in partnership with msnbc.com, uses publicly available information from government agencies to calculate a "troubled assets ratio." That ratio helps people know just how "troubled" the bank is.
In an abrupt turnaround from Bush administration policy, the Treasury Department has released details of its contracts with banks that received government money as part of the ongoing financial industry bailout.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner also announced plans for increased transparency in future bailout transactions.
Bloomberg News filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Federal Reserve system Friday, seeking documents related to the financial services crisis, the news service reported.
The suit, filed in federal court in New York, asks for documents the government says are held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The bank, one of a dozen in the Federal Reserve system, has not complied with FOIA because it has not been considered a government agency.
