F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home NYT | Top Stories By: Devlin Barrett and Julian E. Barnes 28 May 2026 at 05:01 The only charge lodged against David Rush is that he inflated his academic credentials and obtained military leave pay worth tens of thousands of dollars. © Tom Brenner for The New York TimesThe C.I.A. was “unable to locate the gold bars or significant amounts of the foreign currency,” the court papers charged.