The Real Game of Missing Money expenditures on a given activity are hidden in completely different area of government. 20181006 Kavanaugh is confirmed as Justice of the Supreme Court by the U.S. Senate. Event media 20181010 Hurricane Michael, the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States in terms of pressure, behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Hurricane Camille of 1969, hits the East Coast of the U.S., distracting news watchers from the finalization of FASAB Statement 56 on October 4, 2018. event 20181027 Ernst & Young and other private accounting firms announce they cannot complete DOD 2018 FY audit. “The firms concluded...that the DoD’s financial records were riddled with so many bookkeeping deficiencies, irregularities, and errors that a reliable audit was simply impossible.” DoD 20181127 “Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed: How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit” (The Nation). The reporter, Dave Lindorff, notes that Ernst & Young and other accounting firms have given up on trying to perform a 2018 FY audit: “The firms concluded . . . that the DoD’s financial records were riddled with so many bookkeeping deficiencies, irregularities, and errors that a reliable audit was simply impossible.” The tab for the attempted audit reportedly was $900MM. According to Lindorff, “1,200 auditors went through Pentagon books for a year and they came up with nothing. The only things they were able to audit well—and this is significant—is the retirement plan and the payroll.” The Nation further states: "For decades, the DoD’s leaders and accountants have been perpetrating a gigantic, unconstitutional accounting fraud, deliberately cooking the books to mislead the Congress and drive the DoD’s budgets ever higher, regardless of military necessity. DoD has literally been making up numbers in its annual financial reports to Congress—representing trillions of dollars’ worth of seemingly nonexistent transactions—knowing that Congress would rely on those misleading reports when deciding how much money to give the DoD the following year, according to government records and interviews with current and former DoD officials, congressional sources, and independent experts." The author then proceeds to misrepresent Dr. Skidmore on national radio, promoting the $21 trillion as not real money, just a “plug.” Media, DoD 20181127 “Green New Deal” proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, creating a non-accountable 15- member Congressional Committee to manage enormous amounts of money and assets dedicated to “green” enterprises with little accountability. Law 20190100 Laurence Kotlikoff publishes, “Holding U.S. Treasurys? Beware: Uncle Sam Can't Account For $21 Trillion” (Forbes, January 9, 2019). Kotlikoff (Dr. Mark Skidmore's coauthor on other missing money articles) writes, “Typically, undocumentable transactions are a just small fraction of authorized spending. How could a $122 billion Army financial statement generate undocumentable adjustments that were 54 times authorized spending?” Kotlikoff also writes, “. . . both Skidmore and Lindorff requested that the OIG provide more detailed information about the nature of 170 transactions that generated $2.1 trillion in undocumentable transactions (see page 6 of the OIG report). Why would the Army make up such huge phony numbers, as Lindorff and his sources assert? And yet is difficult to imagine that such huge sums could flow in and/or out of the Army financial statement in a way that was unauthorized. 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