Biden administration sued for allegedly hiding documents on baby formula investigation

Published October 29, 2022 12:00am ET



EXCLUSIVE — President Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission is being sued for allegedly blocking the release of records related to its investigation of the nationwide baby formula shortage.

The Functional Government Initiative, an ethics watchdog, sent a Freedom of Information Act request in August to the FTC for the records, noting their release is in the “public interest.” But the watchdog has not received any records as of this writing and is now suing the FTC for “wrongfully withholding them,” according to a Wednesday complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner.

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