So in my free time I love to fight Ai, I try to find out how far I have to push it to get it to admit defeat and be proven wrong. It's my devil's advocate for my work and theories. It is also what I do with regulatory agencies.
The office of the Attorney General of Illinois tried to out case-law us. At F'nAround we work with researchers and law professors around the globe discussing the cover-up of corruption by Illinois.
They brought a statute. They brought a case from 1989. They brought the full weight of the Public Access Bureau, and it still could not case-law its way out of what the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation did to protect nuEra cannabis and their ownership.
So it did the only thing left. It closed the file.
“This office is exercising its discretion to conclude this matter without further proceedings.” Read that again... if you can't defend federal crimes probably shouldn't ignore them.
That is 2026 PAC 98399, in one sentence, signed November 9, 2026, by Matthew Rogina, Senior Assistant Attorney General. No argument. No explanation. Just discretion, exercised, and a file, closed. We only asked for the employee logs for who approved nuEra getting more licenses after they admitted to money laundering under oath to explain why they wired over 300k to a witness we couldn't locate. The problem was the office of the Governor sent us his employee logs for everyone who saw and ignored their crimes with their cell numbers and emails.
When you cannot win the argument, close the file. It is the last move in the book, and they just played it.
And here is the best part. The letter ends by telling us we can sue in circuit court under 5 ILCS 140/11(a). Sue us, it says, in so many words. Sue us.
Damn. Now you and the DOJ have both told us to sue you.
At least the DOJ had manners about it they pointed us toward lawyers and told us to contact them and sue Illinois for the crimes they covered up and committed in federal court.
The office of the Attorney General just said sue us. No directions. No referral. Just sue us.
Why do you think we asked for the logs?