David Rush is accused of:

• Lying on his background check forms;
• Time-card fraud;
• Oh yeah, and also stealing $40M worth of gold bars.

Rush, a former senior executive service-level CIA employee in Virginia, was arrested on May 19:

FBI agents searching his home seized more than 300 1-kilogram gold bars valued at more than $40 million. [...]

The CIA says it informed the FBI of its suspicions about Rush, who apparently fell under scrutiny after he began asking for gold bars last November. That's when he began making "several requests ... to obtain a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses," according to the affidavit. [...]

A review of a storage space Rush used at the CIA found that only part of the cash was there. The agency's inquiry into the matter is ongoing, but it has not yet found any record of why Rush said he needed the massive amount of money.

The FBI affidavit accuses Rush of taking gold bars and currency, making false statements to the agency and on national security background forms, and filing fraudulent timecards.

It is journalistic malpractice that there are no photos of the gold bars in question. Stock photos are insufficient here.

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