30 The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part Two Sure enough, the sympathetic AUSA was demoted, and a new AUSA, Rudy Contreras, was assigned. Meanwhile, however, I had been inspired by Gary Webb’s use of the Internet to make all of his underlying legal documents accessible, and we had decided to launch a website. By publishing chronologies, dockets, legal documents, and summaries, our team could simplify and explain a highly complex legal and financial situation, thus making it manageable for a variety of parties. After almost five months of round-the-clock work scanning documents and writing legal summaries, we launched the Solari website on the litigation. Shortly thereafter, the qui tam was unsealed, and the Judge who had maintained the qui tam under seal for many years without any evidence of wrongdoing resigned suddenly from the bench. Judge Stanley Sporkin was the former general counsel of the CIA, when the CIA and DOD entered into a Memorandum of Understanding regarding narcotics trafficking by CIA assets. I was so appalled at some of his later escapades that we published a hot seat dedicated just to Judge Sporkin. In the process of trying to get to the bottom of things, Hamilton’s general counsel Carolyn Betts discovered that billions were going missing from HUD. It started with the HUD IG testimony in March 22, 2000, indicating that there were $59 billion in undocumentable adjustments from HUD during fiscal year 1999, with many more billions missing from the open balance (mean- ing fiscal 1998). Despite this testimony, no effort would ever be made to determine what had happened or to get any missing money back, and no audit would be completed (https://www. whereisthemoney.org/59billion.htm). This money at HUD had gone missing during the period when the world was distracted by Mon- ica Lewinsky and stories of sex in the oval office. However, it was clear to my team that honest people were being forced out by criminal means so that billions in assets could be shifted out of the government—and in a manner that would communicate to the wider Washington bureaucra- cy that it would be dangerous to stand in the way of the federal financial fraud tsunami. We set to work with a series of reporters and researchers to help investigate and warn investors and citizens that the government coffers at both HUD and DOD were being emptied and that the housing bubble was threatening the financial health of millions of investors and citizens around the world. We called it a “financial coup d’état.” One of the best-known efforts was Kelly Patricia O’Meara’s outstanding “Missing Money” series for Insight magazine that was published from 2000-2004. You can find that series at our Missing Money website at https://missingmoney.solari.com. In 2000, I met with the Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee that oversees HUD appropriations. The mortgage bubble was in full bubble mode. The staff member asked me what I thought was going on at HUD. I deferred my response and asked them the same question in return. The staff member looked me dead in the eye and said, “HUD is being run as a criminal enterprise.” HUD’s matrix structure means that the majority of its operations are run by large defense contractors, New York Fed member banks, the U.S. Treasury, and the Department of Justice—and those parties indeed were intentionally running HUD as a criminal enterprise. Paul Rodriguez, editor of Insight, published “Thankless Task” in May, 2001 about the target- ing of Hamilton Securities Group (https://dunwalke.com/gideon/articles/Insight-CAFitts- HUD’s_Victim_2001-05-21.pdf). His first article went up on the Internet on Friday afternoon. By Tuesday, the HUD Inspector General was “retired.” Several weeks later, Rodriguez’s associate, investigative reporter Kelly Patricia O’Meara, sent a series of questions to the HUD Inspector General’s office about their latest fiscal 2000 financial audits (which I had just extensively re- viewed), which declined to publish the amount of undocumentable adjustments. Two hours later, the HUD Inspector General’s office faxed a message to Hamilton’s attorneys informing them