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Dossier · Who's Who
James Kenney
The cabinet secretary whose agency decides Project Jupiter's air permit — and who, per internal emails, directed his staff to write Apaluma, his former cabinet colleague's AI company, into NMED contracts without a bid. He starred in the company's promo video ('I'm already having, like, an affection towards Luma… like lightning in a bottle') — a video that later vanished. The DOJ's fraud investigation into the permit's comment file landed on his desk in July 2026.
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