That's ~280kg of gold if anyone wonders
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FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home
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#73That's ~280kg of gold if anyone wonders
The article says "approximately 303 gold bars, each of which weighed approximately one kilogram"
I guess the gold bars aren't uniformly sized, which would agree with your ~280kg number.
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#74Sounds 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.
$40m+ in an expense account based in gold bars is absolutely crazy. CIA agents must have access to untold resources if this is seen as a somewhat regular 4 month spend. Seems it is, given that they seemingly weren't concerned about the $40+ million being taken out, but where it was being held.
$40M is a trivial amount of money to everyone involved in this matter. It’s only a few hundred 1kg bars.
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#75If this were a Jason Bourne movie, it was the CIA that put the gold bars there.
Ehh, more like Rush would've been found dead like Abbott after declaring "I'm a patriot" to internal CIA. What's tantalizing about Bourne is something about who we are and capable of, regardless of conditioning... both good and bad.
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#76The 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…
If he still has them, it’s probably ‘garden variety’ workplace embezzlement.
Make up some sources, pretend to pay them, cash the payments.
He probably just got sloppy, and it got too obvious.
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#77okay now the Director!
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#78Re: FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home
#79Archive.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?
I get 24 hour access through my local library. Here, have a gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-ci...
I had no idea this was an option. Libraries are the best.