The Real Game of Missing Money 20090629 Paul Tharp, “US Official Sees $23.7 Trillion Rescue Tab” (New York Post). TARP IG Neal Barofsky reports that $23.7T will need to be expended on TARP. Media, Treasury 20090709 2009 FY end. $311.3B in undocumentable adjustments against Treasury at Army. DoD Treasury 20091229 President Barack Obama issues Executive Order 13526, “Classified National Security Information,” which redefines the procedures for classified information. law 20100308 2010 FY end. $874.8B in undocumentable adjustments against Treasury at Army. DoD Treasury 20100416 SEC charges Goldman Sachs with fraud in structuring and marketing of a collateralized debt obligation (CDO) tied to subprime mortgages. “The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the U.S. housing market was beginning to falter. The SEC alleges that Goldman Sachs structured and marketed a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that hinged on the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Goldman Sachs failed to disclose to investors vital information about the CDO, in particular the role that a major hedge fund played in the portfolio selection process and the fact that the hedge fund had taken a short position against the CDO.” [Source: SEC website] Corporate, Enforcement 20110806 Zachary A. Goldfarb, “S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating for first time” (to AA+), Washington Post. The downgrade to AA+ occurs four days after Congress votes to raise the debt ceiling of the federal government by means of the Budget Control Act. Later, the U.S. government commences an investigation into S&P's role in the rating of several mortgage-backed securities that played a role in the 2008 Financial Crisis. To mend its relationship with the U.S. government, S&P asks its then-CEO [Devin Sharma] to step down, 18 days after the U.S. was downgraded. [Source: Wikipedia] Media, Treasury 20110911 2011 FY end. $14.6B in undocumentable adjustments against Treasury at the Department of the Army. DoD Treasury 20120719 2012 FY end. $110.9B in undocumentable adjustments against Treasury at the Department of the Army. DoD Treasury 20120721 “£13tn hoard hidden from taxman by global elite”: The Guardian reports that a global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary £13 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore—as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together—according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network. Corporate, Media 20120930 2014 FY end. $1.9B in undocumentable adjustments against Treasury at HUD. HUD 20121106 Barack Obama is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Mitt Romney. Event 20130205 DOJ files a lawsuit against S&P. Enforcement, Corporate 20130228 Jacob J. Lew becomes Secretary of the Treasury and serves until January 20, 2017. Treasury 20130426 Catherine Austin Fitts and John Rappoport discuss Hamilton Securities, its Community Wizard database, and the Hamilton Securities litigation in a special Solari Report on the relationship between the Oklahoma City bombing and West of the Mississippi (Region 6 defaulted loans) HUD loan sale documents. Media, Hamilton, HUD, 20130927 SAIC changes its name to Leidos and spins off a new and independent $4 billion government services and information technology company that retains the Science Applications International Corporation name. [Source: Wikipedia] Corporate 20140509 Enactment of the Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act. The DATA Act's goals are to: (1) Expand the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 law 1 8 7