28 The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part Two To try and head off an extended litigation process, I made a significant investment of time work- ing with reporters from the Washington Post. The reporters, who had been lobbied extensively by John Ervin (the government’s so-called “whistleblower”), did a significant amount of investiga- tion. One reporter told me their conclusion that Hamilton’s “guilt” was for making money for the taxpayers. However, the HUD IG apparently had insisted that we were guilty of criminal acts. When I asked the reporters why they would not run with that story, one said, “In an office that leaks like a sieve, why will they not produce any evidence?” I later became convinced that private corporations managing the PROMIS software system at DOJ had falsified documentation to help start the investigation. Such documentation would be classified—one explanation for why the HUD IG might not leak it. It would also explain why one phase of the investigation collapsed after we produced records from Hamilton Securities and my bank under subpoena discovery. There was no trail to any bogus offshore accounts. The Washington Post reporters did indeed write a story. I was told it was quite favorable to us. However, it was pulled the night before it was supposed to run—and the reporters stopped speaking with us. I was later snubbed by Post publisher Katherine Graham at a party at her house. It was immediately thereafter that DOJ and HUD felt free to seize our offices on a false pretext. While inside Hamilton’s offices, the HUD IG General Counsel tried to engineer another false frame. The story of how it failed is one of the many miracles that occurred during that time. After my New York Times experience in the Bush administration and this experience with the Washington Post, I turned my back on corporate media. From then on, my plan was to commu- nicate directly with people. As for the corporate media, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” When it came to money being stolen from the federal government, I was confident that the corporate media worked for the team doing the stealing. Indeed, Warren Buf- fet was on the Washington Post board and continued to enjoy mysteriously above-market returns as the housing bubble and financial fraud grew. After our offices and copies of all of our software and databases were seized, including our place- based disclosure tool called Community Wizard, a contact called to tell me that all of Hamilton’s materials had been reviewed for integration into the design for a new search engine that would be launched by the CIA; it would be named Google. I just marked it as covert gossip, although I no- ticed that when Google emerged and eventually went public, they were using a similiar A/B share stock model that Hamilton had used, which had—I believed—literally saved my life. Even more noteworthy was what happened with Facebook. When my CFO at Hamilton had wanted to invest in a human resources software system, I had insisted instead that employees learn HTML and proceed to create and maintain their own files on the in-house intranet. When Facebook later launched, I realized that it solved the intelligence agencies’ data servicing problems; our research had showed that federal data servicing needs were skyrocketing—Facebook solved their problem by getting as many global citizens as possible willingly to update and maintain their own files. As money gushed out of the federal government, it gushed into the buyout and private equi- ty firms and into the stock market. It was the global investment equivalent of “supermarket sweepstakes” where the contestants have five minutes to fill up their shopping baskets. When I still had hopes of continuing business activities, I headed to a conference for the technology and related venture industry in Arizona organized for subscribers of Esther Dyson’s newsletter. I found venture capitalists throwing enormous amounts of early stage financing at companies that had no chance of succeeding. They were insisting that companies raise many multiples of