fundraising mechanism for military and intelligence agencies involving a complex securities scheme using HUD-backed Ginnie Mae investments. According to Fitts, HUD overpays to rehabilitate public housing and funnels the difference into unaudited black budget programs at the behest of national security agencies. During the United States presidential election, 2016, Fitts supported the campaign of Donald Trump. On December 8, 2020, Trump retweeted one of Fitts' tweets which linked to an article on Breitbart. She has donated to political campaigns of Democrats Cynthia McKinney and Marcy Kaptur, and Republicans Rand Paul and Thomas Massie. According to The Washington Post, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fitts "worked with anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to promote unfounded claims about the pandemic and to oppose lockdown measures put in place to slow the spread of the virus" and recorded a lengthy interview as part of the 'Planet Lockdown' film which The Washington Post reports parroted "false claims about the pandemic". References External links Fitts' biography from Solari Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits Transcript of Catherine Austin Fitts' Visit to The New York Times Drug Policy Forum American financial businesspeople American investment bankers Living people Businesspeople from Philadelphia United States Assistant Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni 1950 births