The Real Game of Missing Money 20160815 “Lockheed Cuts and Runs” [Solari Report]—Lockheed Martin spins out its Information Systems & Global Solutions division to Leidos for $4.6B. The merger deal closes and is implemented immediately prior to the latest DOD Inspector General audit. With Lockheed having been the largest provider of information systems, including accounting and payments systems, to DOD and U.S. government agencies, this merger now makes Leidos the largest IT provider in the federal market. Media, Corporate, DoD 20170120 Donald Trump becomes 45th President of the United States after defeating Hillary Clinton. Event 20170213 Steven T. Mnuchin becomes Secretary of the Treasury. Treasury 20170309 Catherine Austin Fitts and Rob Kirby present a Solari Report interview on the Exchange Stabilization Fund. Media 20170320 Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, a frequent critic of the DOD’s financial practices, says on the Senate floor that the Pentagon’s longstanding failure to conduct a proper audit reflects “twenty-six years of hard-core foot-dragging” on the part of the DOD, where “internal resistance to auditing the books runs deep.” DoD 20170900 Deadline set in 2009 by Congress for Pentagon to subject itself to full audit. DoD 20170928 Interview with Dr. Mark Skidmore on The Solari Report, “Summary Report on ‘Unsupported Journal Voucher Adjustments’ in the Financial Statements of the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.” Media, DoD, HUD 20170928 Launch of website at missingmoney.solari.com to make public DOD and HUD financial statements and documentation. Media 20170930 Although OIG audit reports in previous years were always made available online without restriction or censorship, a DOD OIG report on a U.S. Navy financial statement for FY 2017 suddenly appears in heavily redacted form—not just the numbers it contains, but even its title! Only bureaucratic sloppiness enable one to see that the report concerns Navy finances: Censors missed some of the references to the Navy in the body of the report. A request to the Office of Inspector General to have the document uncensored is met with the response: “It was the Navy’s decision to censor it, and we can’t do anything about that.” At the request of The Nation, Senator Grassley’s office also asks the OIG to uncensor the report. Again, the OIG refuses. [See David Lindorff article, 11/27/18] DoD 20171005 The Solari team discovers that the Solari Report link to the report “Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported” has been disabled by the DOD and HUD Offices of Inspectors General. DoD, HUD 20171005 DOD News, “DOD Announces Agency Wide Audit” [Spoiler alert: DOD’s independent accountants were not able to produce a clean audit of 2018 financial statements] Media, DoD 20171008 The Solari team learns that key documents have been reposted on the OIG website, but with different URLs. Enforcement, Media 20171008 Fire at the New York Federal Reserve. Event 20171211 United Press International, “Trump Signs $700 Billion Defense Budget” (Defense News). Media, DoD 20171212 In late May 2018, a graduate student at Michigan State University finds on the OIG website the most recent report for the DOD, which summarizes unsupported adjustments for fiscal year 2017. However, this document differs from all previous reports in that all the numbers relating to unsupported adjustments are redacted. DoD, 20180112 Special Solari Report article published: “The Black Budget: The Crossroads of (Un)Constitutional Appropriations and Reporting.” Media 20180112 Special Solari Report article published: “The Appropriations Clause: A History of the Constitution’s Media 1 8 9