42 The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part Two points/KPFA radio in the San Francisco Bay Area that ran between 5:00 and 6:00 pm on week- days—prime time for commuters on their way home. The host was Dennis Bernstein, who had extensive experience with mortgage fraud and the Iran-Contra scandal. Dennis and I had done a long series on Enron, and it was his reporting with Congresswoman McKinney and myself that brought repeated attention to the missing money and the very serious financial problems at HUD and DOD. The undocumentable adjustments kept piling up (see https://missingmoney.solari. com/dod-and-hud-missing-money-supporting-documentation/), but no one seemed to care or understand the practical implications. Dennis did understand, and I deeply appreciated his interest. Occasionally, a member of the independent media would publish a tally, and numbers began floating around the Internet that the undocumentable adjustments were up to $8.5 trillion. However, the real number was hard to ascertain because HUD refused to publish its undocu- mentable adjustments. As the subprime mortgage markets—and then the mortgage markets—were melting down by the summer of 2008, Hank Paulson, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs and at the time Secretary of the Treasury, was arranging one package after another to transfer vast amounts of taxpayer resourc- es to private banks in exchange for massive amounts of questionable if not fraudulent securities. In the summer of 2008, I was suddenly attacked by spurious allegations and thrown off of KPFA radio in what was clearly a pretext. It’s another shaggy dog story. Right after I was thrown off the radio, guess what happened next? The Bohemian Grove met for its annual gathering north of San Francisco—and then the U.S. government announced that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the mortgage government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), would be nationalized. Among many other global investors, the Russian inter- ests were protected, as we will see momentarily. Shortly thereafter, one of the top San Francisco money managers published a comment on their webpage. They had invested approximately $1 billion in Fannie Mae stock that April—several months before. They said they had done extensive due diligence, yet they had no idea there was a problem. Apparently, statements over the previous five years by the former Assistant Secretary of Housing—several times a month on San Francisco Bay Area radio—that there was a serious, system-threatening problem had taken place in a parallel universe. Every trucker I met or spoke to in America knew the mortgage market was on thin ice, but we were in a world where we the “deplorables” lived in reality, while the East and West Coasts were swimming in a parallel universe of Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury money in which nothing could go wrong. The potential Freddie and Fannie collapses would have had major international implications because both their stock and bonds were held globally. In 2005, an advisor to Putin had tried to recruit me when I was in Canada, arguing that I would forever be an outcast in America and that the Russian Orthodox team leading Russia was more aligned with my values and vision of a hu- man future. He was most persuasive. I explained, however, that no one likes a traitor; as despised and dishonored as I might be in America, for me, there was no “away.” I was an American, and it was my job to help my team get better. When I returned home, I kept having a nagging feeling that I was missing something. I got online, and after much research, I realized that Russia was the second largest foreign holder of Freddie Mac securities. Russia and its institutions held major positions in U.S. mortgage securities. It felt to me like someone was making a last-ditch effort to get out of paying Hamilton the money the U.S. government owed me. Shortly thereafter, the Department of Justice approached my attorneys to negotiate the settlement that closed in January, 2006.