FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home

AmazingEveryDay

This seems absolutely crazy. Probably Fort Knox should be inventoried, might indeed not be anything there!

sleepyguy

Sounds like he was most likely involved in some serious shit that was off the books and somehow it came to light. His boss is probably aware of what it was but no one will admit shit. It went awry and he is left holding the bag. Gold and money for an operation that could have been to anything from funding armed rebellion to god only knows.

simpaticoder

So what is that, like 10 gold bars? EDIT: it's 240. but still, they were worth a lot less not that long ago...

mlmonkey

Gold is the "bitcoin" of yesterday, in the sense that it is untraceable, anonymous and yet high value enough to be worth it. And it can be made to disappear in a hurry, if you have to: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/d...

contingencies

CIA: Corruption Institute of America

hnthrowaway0315

Maybe this is part of the shadow money. CIA has been working with business people since the beginning of Cold War and I wouldn't be surprised that they have deep roots in the financial world -- after all both Intelligence and Finance need globalization.

delichon

A couple of weeks ago there was a story that the CIA raided the office of the director of the NSA and seized information regarding the CIA. Trump was in China at the time. About a week later the NSA director resigns. I waited for it to turn into a major story and get some kind of explanation, but silence. It seems like an extraordinary story and I don't understand why there isn't a hullabaloo. Did I hallucinate it? Who runs this country?

vostrocity

How porous is the CIA's interview process that they couldn't validate the guy's military discharge status?

johnea

> millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses. Hey, handing over millions of $$s to local warlords is a business expense...

JumpCrisscross

Huh. I’m actually glad to see the IC fragmenting like this.

NooneAtAll3

That's ~280kg of gold if anyone wonders

Computer0

I'm guessing they decided they don't like the guy anymore? The CIA is very corrupt as an institution and things like this run rampant. Billions of dollars go unaccounted for a year at the CIA.

exabrial

If this were a Jason Bourne movie, it was the CIA that put the gold bars there.

mmooss

The CIA legitimately engages in bribery and hard asset payments. Note that the CIA approved his request and gave him these assets (or at least many of them - the paragraph below doesn't specify the amount). > From last November to March, the court papers say, Mr. Rush asked for, and received, “a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses.” Possibly the question here is, why did Rush take them home. It's always possible Rush was just sloppy and undisciplined, which would also reflect a cultural problem. Many people have been found with secret documents in their homes.

skeledrew

Guy sounds like a dragon. What's the deal with the watches though?

rdtsc

> From last November to March, the court papers say, Mr. Rush asked for, and received, “a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses.” - "I need these bars to pay off this Russian spy who will tell us Putin's nuclear codes password" Comes back a week later - "His password is 12345" - "How do we know the story is not fake?" - "What am I going to get a signed receipt from him? Duh..."

VladVladikoff

Archive.ph/archive.today failing me to bypass paywall, is everyone commenting on the title? Or you all have NYT subscriptions? Or you know of some other bypass?

mahirsaid

okay now the Director!

siavosh

“$40 million…a small fortune” — inflation has gotten out of hand!

yangm97

Should’ve used Monero or something lmao