A CIA official has been arrested after law enforcement authorities found hundreds of gold bars and millions of dollars in cash in his home, according to court documents.
David Rush, who is no longer with the CIA, was taken into custody after an investigation found that he had requested tens of millions of dollars in gold bars and foreign currency for work-related expenses.
Investigators could not locate most of the currency or any of the gold bars, prompting the FBI to carry out a search warrant on Rush’s house in Virginia, according to charging documents.
FBI agents on May 18 seized approximately 303 gold bars, with an estimated value exceeding $40 million, around 35 luxury watches, and about $2 million in U.S. currency, a special agent told the federal court in Alexandria….