FBI Arrests Senior CIA Official With $40M in Stolen Gold…

A senior CIA official, David Rush, was arrested after FBI agents searched his Virginia home and discovered approximately 303 gold bars valued at more than $40 million. The find also included around $2 million in cash and nearly three dozen luxury watches, according to court filings.

Investigators allege the CIA had provided Rush with gold bars and foreign currency to cover work-related expenses between November and March, but later could not account for much of it. Rush is currently being held pending a detention hearing.

While the case is primarily a federal criminal matter, the scale of the alleged misappropriation — $40 million in physical gold held inside a private residence — raises questions about oversight of off-book asset programs at intelligence agencies, a category of government activity that rarely surfaces in public court records.