The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part One 19980309 Hamilton files suit against HUD in Court of Federal Claims in an effort to recover amounts withheld for services rendered under its HUD contract represented by Claude Goddard. [Hamilton Securities Advisory Services, Inc. v. The United States (98-CV-169), U.S. District Court, United States Court of Federal Claims, Judge Marion Blank Horn] Hamilton Sec Advisory Serv Inc. v. the US Hamilton 19980422 Hamilton files an affidavit in the pending case before Judge Sporkin, signed by Hamilton’s building property manager, stating that Judith Hetherton had moved paper copies of Hamilton’s accounting records into the building trash and taken photographs of it with her camera. Hamilton, enforcement 19980600 Dark Alliance, by Gary Webb, is published by St. Martin’s Press. Media, enforcement 19980930 1998 FY end. $17.6B in undocumentable adjustments against Treasury at HUD and $1.7T at DOD. event, Treasury DOD HUD 19981218 S.C. Gwynne, with reporting by Adam Zagorin, report in “Just Hide Me the Money” (Time Magazine) regarding the October, 1998 Citicorp/Travelers merger and the world of offshore banking: “Citibank’s private-banking unit holds more than $100 billion, which makes it about the same size as the entire bank was in 1982. These funds are in turn part of a $17 trillion global pool of money belonging to what bankers euphemistically call ‘high-net-worth-individuals’—a pool that generates more than $150 billion a year in banking revenue. The numbers are impressive when you consider that except at a few sleepy British and Swiss institutions, the private-banking industry didn’t exist until the 1980s. Citibank predicted early this year that it would reach $1 trillion—that’s trillion with a T—in private-banking assets by the year 2010. And it faces some 4,000 competitors, from global dreadnoughts like Switzerland’s UBS to secretive banks in the tiny principality of Andorra to brokerages in Miami and accountancy firms in the Channel Islands.” media, corporate 19990000 Richard Grasso, Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, travels to a rebel-held village in Colombia to meet with a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) commander. At that time, the GAO reported that FARC had assumed control of a majority market share of the Colombian cocaine trade. Event 19990625 Hamilton Securities files complaint against Ervin & Associates in District of Columbia Superior Court. Hamilton 19990629 DC Superior Court case by Hamilton Securities against Ervin & Associates is removed to U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1:99-cv-01698-LFO), Judge Stanley Sporkin, who later turns down Hamilton’s motion to remand the case to DC Superior Court. Hamilton 19990702 Lawrence H. Summers becomes Secretary of the Treasury and serves until January 20, 2001. Treasury 19990812 Daniel Hawke withdraws as counsel to Ervin & Associates to later take a position with the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission formerly run by Stanley Sporkin and is replaced by attorneys Craig Stephen Brodsky and Mark Polston. Hamilton 19990930 1999 FY end. $59.6B in undocumentable adjustments against Treasury at HUD and $2.3T at DOD. event, Treasury DOD HUD 20000322 HUD Inspector General (IG) Gaffney testifies before House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology regarding $59B in undocumentable adjustments against Treasury: “HUD used a financial statement report consolidation software called Hyperion Enterprise to prepare the financial statements. Reconciliation processes to identify discrepancies with Treasury fell behind schedule, and HUD had to make numerous adjustments to the general ledger fund balance with Treasury balances to make them agree with Treasury records. These adjustments were not made via the normal general ledger posting process. Rather, they were made directly to Hyperion Enterprise. At the time we discontinued our audit work, a total of 42 adjustments totaling about $17.6 billion had been processed in this manner to adjust fiscal year 1998 ending balances. An additional 242 adjustments totaling about $59.6 billion were made to adjust fiscal year 1999 activity." HUD 1 8 0