Sanctions Watch: Week of June 3, 2026 — Treasury Targets Iran’s Strait of Hormuz “Toll” Scheme
OFAC sanctions Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority, finalizes $275M Adani LPG settlement, fines FTI Consulting over VTB Bank dealings, and BIS continues a chip-export enforcement surge.
Spending Watch: Week of June 3 — Pentagon Books $11B in Single Week as DRF Slips Below Threshold
A $1.03B Fluor naval nuclear modification, a $9.69B Microsoft/Dell software consolidation, $2.7B for Leidos hypersonics, and $2B in equity-linked quantum grants headline the week — even as FEMA's Disaster Relief…
Court Watch: Week of June 1, 2026 — SCOTUS Narrows Compassionate Release, Expands Helms-Burton
The Supreme Court closed May with rulings limiting federal compassionate-release claims, reviving Helms-Burton damages against cruise lines, and reopening a Mississippi capital case on Batson grounds. Below, the D.C. Circuit…
Public Records Roundup: Week of June 1 — Pentagon Cut 78,000 Civilian Jobs Without Measuring Impact, GAO Finds
GAO finds the Pentagon eliminated 78,000 civilian jobs without consistent impact analysis, while auditors flag corporate-transparency gaps, $250M in BOP First Step Act spending, and municipal collapses in three states.
Capitol Watch: June 3, 2026 — House Cuts EPA 20% in FY27 Markup as Senate Teed Up on Clean Air Disapproval
House Appropriations advanced a FY27 Interior bill cutting EPA roughly 20%; Senate prepared a 2:15 p.m. vote on S.J. Res. 188; Oversight's Bondi contempt and prediction-markets tracks remain active.
DOJ Watch: June 3, 2026 — Aspiration Co-Founder Gets 14 Years, Citron’s Andrew Left Convicted, Chinese Container Cartel Indicted
Daily roundup of DOJ enforcement actions: Aspiration Partners co-founder sentenced to 14 years, short-seller Andrew Left convicted, a Chinese shipping-container cartel indictment, an IRGC-linked terror plot, and more.
Federal Register Watch: June 3, 2026 — Trump Realigns Childhood Vaccine Schedule; Rescinds Carter-Era Off-Road Vehicle Orders
Two new Trump executive orders top the Federal Register: realigning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with peer nations and rescinding 50-year-old off-road vehicle restrictions. The SEC moves to rescind climate…
Decarbonization Partners’ Battery Bonfire: How Ascend Elements’ $1.1 Billion ESG Bet Ended in a Texas 363 Sale
BlackRock-Temasek's Decarbonization Partners, Qatar Investment Authority, and $206 million in DOE grants funded a Kentucky cathode plant that never produced at commercial scale. The Trump administration cancelled the next $110…
SEC Watch: June 3, 2026 — Crypto AI Fraud, Musk Trust Penalty, and the Adani Settlements
By Eduardo Bacci, The Investigative Journal Recent filings posted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR system and on the Commission’s enforcement and press release pages reveal a steady…
Morning Wire: June 3, 2026 — Iran Strikes Kuwait Airport; Treasury Blacklists Nobitex; SCOTUS Rules in Whitton
Overnight: Iran hits Kuwait's airport and U.S. assets in Bahrain; Treasury sanctions Iran's largest crypto exchange; SCOTUS sides with death-row petitioner in Whitton v. Dixon; USTR floats Section 301 tariffs…