FOIAengine Tracks Three Private Eyes on the Trail of Short-Seller Culper Research
By John Jenkins, Law St. Media, Aug. 6, 2025
Brian Willingham is a licensed private investigator in New York, ID# 1000149418. He runs an investigative agency called Diligentia Group. The company’s motto is “We Find Evidence That Normal People Can’t.”
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Apart from sharing a furtive line of work, all three detectives have something else in common: They are using the federal Freedom of Information Act to conduct counter-surveillance on behalf of anonymous clients.
The use of FOIA proxy requesters is common and well known. We first bumped into the above three investigators a few weeks ago, while researching our story about the activist short-seller Christian Lamarco; his firm, Culper Research; and the mysterious “Jeff Bourland.” (See “Some Research Into Short-Seller Culper Research.”)
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