Two recent federal court rulings found that agencies had conducted inadequate searches for documents American Oversight requested related to the president's influence over a multibillion-dollar project.

Opinion issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruling that agencies had conducted inadequate searches for records requested by American Oversight.

Records from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) headquarters consolidation project. American Oversight sought these records to shed light on the project and to determine whether the president’s personal financial interests influenced the future FBI headquarters.

Three federal agencies appear to be stonewalling our investigation into whether Trump canceled a multibillion-dollar FBI relocation project in order to benefit his D.C. hotel.

The General Services Administration provided a single letter responding to three separate FOIA requests. The letter states that GSA has no records responsive to American Oversight's FOIA requests for meeting notes, agendas, or other materials related to meetings that took place at the White House regarding the FBI Headquarters Consolidation Project on December 20, 2017 or June 15, 2018.  For the meeting that took place in January 2018, GSA claims that any records it has are exempt from release under FOIA.

Lawsuit filed by American Oversight against DOJ, FBI, OMB, and GSA seeking records of White House meetings regarding the FBI Headquarters Consolidation Project.

FOIA to GSA seeking all meeting notes, agendas, informational material, readouts, and follow-up conversation notes related to the FBI Headquarters Consolidation Project from any White House meetings that may have addressed the topic and that took place on or about June 15, 2018, with GSA Administrator Emily Murphy, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray, OMB Deputy Director Russ Vought, White House Counsel Don McGahn, White House Director of Legislative Affairs and Assistant to the President Marc Short, and/or President Donald Trump in attendance.