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Gun-running case spotlights D.C.’s out-of-state crime guns and a required tracing report not posted since 2024
A North Carolina gun-trafficking indictment lands on a pipeline District records have described for years. But the annual crime-gun tracing report D.C. law requires each Feb. 1 has not been posted on…
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Montgomery’s crash records show the most pedestrian and cyclist deaths in years, concentrated on state highways
An Inquisitor analysis of 4,920 Montgomery County crash records finds 18 pedestrians and cyclists killed through Sept. 30, the most for that period since at least 2019. Since 2022, state highways account…
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After his pardon, Binance’s founder hired a new Washington team, and Binance kept paying for “executive relief”
Binance’s lobbyist Checkmate reported $750,000 last quarter for work that still includes “executive relief,” a year after Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao. Zhao has since hired three firms of his own. A records…
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The Senate’s permitting deal drew 162 lobbying reports in the quarter it was introduced
Utilities, oil companies, builders, telecom giants and environmental groups named the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act on third-quarter lobbying reports totaling $51.8 million in all-issue spending, an Inquisitor review found. The…
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One firm, one quote, $2 billion: Ernst & Young’s expanding hold on the Pentagon’s audit
In the past six weeks the Pentagon has handed Ernst & Young three audit orders with combined ceilings of more than $1.8 billion, each after receiving a single quote. Federal records show…