72 The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part Two audited financial statements since the requirement went into effect in 1995. HUD’s Inspector General refused to certify HUD’s fiscal 1999 financial state- ments. Since both agencies have refused to explain the undocumented adjustments in adequate detail for some years and declined to report or make public undoc- umented adjustments, we have no evidence to document that large amounts of assets or money are not being stolen. Catherine Austin Fitts, “Saving Tennessee” (http://www.scoop.co.nz/sto- ries/HL0207/S00031.htm) The missing money problem is systemic and bipartisan. In “Treasury Checks and Unbalances,” which appeared in the April 2004 edition of Insight magazine, Kelly Patricia O’Meara demonstrated this fact quite conclusively. As she reported, according to the GAO (the General Accounting Office, which changed its name in mid-2004 to the Government Accountability Office), the year-end financial reports submitted by four U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury were unreliable and essentially “unauditable” despite the assurances of the accuracy of these reports by these Treasury officials. Kelly continued: “It is the job of the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) to audit the federal government’s financial statements, and this year, as in all previous years in which the auditing re- quirement was in force, ’certain material weaknesses in internal control and in selected accounting and reporting practices resulted in conditions that continued to prevent us from being able to provide Congress and American citizens an opinion as to whether the consolidated financial statements of the U.S. government are fairly stated.’ Indeed, the GAO further reports, ’As a result of material deficiencies in the federal government’s systems, record-keeping, documentation and financial reporting, readers are cautioned that amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and related notes may not be reliable.’” So, the books can’t be audited and what information is made available “may not be reliable.” Contrast this with the statements of the various Secretaries of the Treasury. Robert E. Rubin, 1997—“We believe that the publication of these audited statements is an im- portant step in providing American citizens with more information about the operations of their government.” Robert E. Rubin, 1998—“We believe that the publication of this financial report is an import- ant step in providing the American public with useful information about their government’s assets, liabilities and operations.” Lawrence H. Summers, 1999—“We are committed to producing and reporting financial infor- mation that meets the highest standards of integrity and to provide to the American people the accountability and professionalism they expect from their government.” Paul H. O’Neill, 2000—“I am committed to producing and reporting financial information that meets the highest standards of integrity and to provide the American people the accountability and professionalism that they expect from the government.” Paul H. O’Neill, 2001—“I believe that the American people deserve the highest standards of ac- countability and professionalism from their government, and I will not rest until we achieve them.” Robert Edward Rubin served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury.