You might remember the story of CIA senior officer David J. Rush, 49, of Ashburn, Virginia, who was indicted after an FBI investigation found gold bars, cash in dollars and euros as well as luxury cars and dozens of luxury watches.
Today the DOJ announced that Rush has plead guilty {pdf SEE HERE} in a deal where he will admit to one count of wire fraud, and that will permit the DOJ to finish prosecuting the case without revealing extremely sensitive information about the CIA operations Rush was involved in.
Rush stands accused of manipulating more than $195 million in wire transfers to his own accounts, after setting up covert fake CIA operations centered around unknown foreign intelligence efforts. When you read the plea agreement that stipulates the facts of his activity, it certainly sounds like David Rush was able to execute the fraud under the auspices of Ukraine operations.
To be clear, there’s no mention of Ukraine, but the scale of the money involved, the timing of the activity, the location of the real estate and the attributes of the money and gold (as described) sound very Ukrainian-ish.
DOJ PRESS RELEASE – […] On May 19, 2026, the FBI searched Rush’s residence and recovered 298 gold bars, approximately $2,106,550 in cash, €104,795, and numerous luxury watches. Rush had obtained the gold bars at an approximate cost to the government of $46 million. Pursuant to the plea agreement, Rush has agreed to forfeit the gold bars and currency found at his home, the fraudulently obtained properties, 30 watches (many of which were Rolexes), and two 2026 BMW Alpina vehicles, at least one of which is valued at approximately $172,000.
Rush is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 28, 2027. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, forfeiture, restitution, and a fine. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. (much more)
In addition to the theft, schemes and fraud, inside the plea document Rush admitted that in late 2025 he disclosed “certain descriptive information of a U.S. government clandestine human source” that could “endanger the safety and life of a CIA human source and the U.S. government officers working with the source,” as well as jeopardize America’s “ability to recruit human sources, who rely on the U.S. government’s assurance of absolute secrecy.”
This guy was so deep inside covert (sketchy) CIA stuff, the DOJ dropped a bazillion other charge options and gave him a plea deal for a single count of wire fraud.
Cash and gold bars recovered in search of Rush’s residence
He will get 5 years for not naming names.
He’ll get no time, if I had to venture a guess….
Why didn’t he just open a daycare?
Who watches the watchmen? Apparently no one util the stolen funds and gold bars reaches $50 million, that must be the threshold? Below that there’s no interest in prosecuting? Small potatoes? The Somalis have figured that out! What’s a few stolen million dollars to the Feds?
Ya know, I had the same thought, except on a much larger scale. Congress deals in billions and trillions. What’s a couple million here or there. Why enact guide rails and monitoring systems? It seems there is no accountability until social media pays attention. “What’s the public sentiment?” echoed by the media. Outside of that, what difference does it make if it’s breaking the law.
Now examine the O’Biden crime syndicate.
How can we use AI to ferret this out? I’m sure there are ways.
As Sergeant Stedenko (code name Lard Ass) famously said: “The bigger the bust, the bigger the boost!”
If there was ever a raging piece of human trash who deserved a public execution Rush would be it
OTG I like the energy. Maybe a vest for the gold bars and a diving lesson in an aquarium at lunchtime.
Reportedly, back in the day Aztecs executed at least one conquistador by pouring molten gold down his throat as punishment for their lust for gold.
I was there!
That would stop this crap!
As though we didn’t already know why we kept sending money to Ukraine.
Zelensky is going to be pissed off that this guy got away with so much of HIS money and gold… Obviously the US is just one big piggy bank to him and his cronies. I’ve had the same Seiko watch for 27 years.
I’m sure every politician that voted to send money over there got a cut.
You’re absolutely right! Otherwise, they wouldn’t have loaded to send it.
I’m sure that every politician that went over there got a cut. Pallets of cash and gold bars. $350 billion worth over the years.
A legitimate audit of US taxpayer funds flushed through that corrupt dump Ukraine, would likely implicate 75% of the House and Senate in kickback scams.
And that would be a problem why? I don’t see the downside.
When I worked at a state agency, anything of value that could disappear had an id number, and it better still be there or explained where it was on a yearly or surprise audit. They were strict on that, and even stricter when it came to the money.
Must not have been a Demorat state!
Surprisingly enough, it was.
75%? You’re aiming low.
54W, $7.28 at Walmart. Never failed me even once!
He missed being a boomer by 12 years for those with the….. “It’s the Boomer’s fault” mindset.
Much beyond.
Born (I guess) in 1987, that’s the end of the X-ers or start of the Millennials.
Probably would have graduated RPI around 2006-2009.
Somebody must have a yearbook.
Maybe 1977, since he’s 49 — but he is a Gen X.
You should have been on X that day. The Anti-Boomer crowd went nuts over a post about a “poll,” which was some kind of survey with the question: Would you be in favor of raising the payroll tax on Social Security rather than cut benefits? The heading was like: “85% of Boomers in poll want higher taxes for young people rather than cut Social Security benefits.” The thing was reposted multiple times with enraged anti-Boomer comments. I kept asking everyone who posted it for the link to the poll since I couldn’t find it on Google. When a Boomer hater finally posted a screen cap of the results of the survey you could see why it was hidden: Only the age group with Gen Z people voted against it. The Millennials and Gen X, along with Boomers, voted for raising the tax. They were trying to hide it, and the Boomer Basher who posted after my challenge tried to downplay the other two younger generations’ votes: They are closer to collecting, and brushing it off like it was no big deal, or their wanting their “money back” (which inflation makes impossible anyway) as if it is okay for Millennials and Gen X to want their money, but “Bad” for Boomers to want THEIR MONEY.
The fighting went on all day. I finally had to break for lunch at 3:30 PM. I almost forgot to eat.
Among the other ridiculous stuff. I didn’t know I was a MILLIONAIRE, but a Boomer Hater posted his “finding” that the average wealth of every Boomer is over one million dollars. This is because he divided the number of Boomers into total Boomer wealth, but the Boomer wealth is TOO CONCENTRATED in the top 10% of Boomers to do that without skewing the number of “average wealth per Boomer” to a number that is MISLEADING. You have to calculate median wealth of the 10% separate from the median wealth of the 90% because:
10% of the Boomers control 90% of the total wealth of the Boomer generation.
90% of the Boomers control the remaining 29% of the total wealth of the Boomer generation. This is why some Boomers don’t have enough saved in liquidity to retire, which means not all Boomers are rich, or “don’t have any money worries” like the “oppressed” (by the Boomers) Gen Z, which is how the Oppressor v. Oppressed WOKE reasoning is being employed now. The rhetoric is getting increasingly violent on X right now. I started a campaign against this kind of misinformation back 8 months ago and actually made a dent when one Boomer Basher ceased attacking when I posted how concentrated Boomer wealth was and that most Boomers don’t have Public Employee type pensions. Most other generations’ pensions, like my father’s pension, at $488/month, was nothing to brag about. Social Security dwarfed it. Those people do not know anything about these matters, and I mean NOTHING.
Asset forfeiture is going to fill pockets in certain agencies on this.
This photo is staged just like what they did to PDJT and the Pelican Handgun cases with the neatly arranged gold bars would not stay like that in a 6 inch case if shut and picked up let alone them cases weighing over 60lbs apiece.
Can’t read any identification on any of the bars is completely sketchy as to where they originated from.
Curious that 5 appear arranged in a specific manner (roughly 36 bars each), and the other 4 also arranged in a specific manner. And then the red tape with the white stripe…almost as if they are seals after someone checked to be sure each case contained a specific amount, then sealed them.
Almost as if a certain entity was receiving specific payments as their cut from whatever recent aid was sent to a country at war.
Given his faked credentials/military service, did some bagman skim whatever he was supposed to turn over to that entity?
What a dummy. He should’ve buried most of that crap in certain areas.
Looks like he would’ve gotten away with the bootie.
Couple years jail time.
I wonder how much they didn’t recover.
David J. Rush is most definitely not the only fellow involved in this type of scheme.
“Because of the sensitivity of the matter”.
and with the plea deal, NOW that number is much higher. no?
Who were his bosses and supervisors? Follow the chain to see who knew and got cuts? This guy is not a lone wolf.
Count on it…..
Rush was only following in the Biden family’s footsteps
“To be clear, there’s no mention of Ukraine, but the scale of the money involved, the timing of the activity, the location of the real estate and the attributes of the money and gold (as described) sound very Ukrainian-ish.”
I find that an extremely plausible premise. The guy is literally creating his own self-contained operations and the officers in the DDO above him are letting him do it. Some gig, eh?
Probably getting a cut for looking the other way. Isn’t that how it works?
“Nice side hustle you got there… Would be a shame if something happened to it.”
Look at the photo.
He actually looked the other way.
‘Wonder what happened to the human source, whose identity was revealed??
He prolly wouldn’t have ruffled any feathers, were it not for giving up a human asset.
Such nerve.
OTOH, maybe we can set up another firing squad.
Does our alphabet have a “Commandant United States Disciplinary Barracks”?
Looks like a drop in the gargantuan Ukrainian bucket. There must be hundreds like this joker Rush, they just haven’t turned over enough rocks to see them slither away. So. Much. Fraud.
A sacrifice to make it look like they are doing something…..
When you look this up on grok they also talk about how he just faked his credentials for jobs in the CIA and/or the navy!!
Until Ratcliffe shows up in the story nothing seems to ever have been checked out. Astonishing?
All the failures and repeated follow-up failures through the years after the enhancements. Some heads should roll; but I doubt they will. This is an embarrassment of huge proportions. What good is our CIA if they aren’t able to get the basics right?
On a positive note, I received my Obamacare ripoff refund check today. $500 x 2! Thanks President Trump! At least we have one honest man in government.
Gubmint gangsters, liars & thieves.
I’m shocked I say… & here’s my shocked face 😑
There’s a statue of him being carved right now deep in the bowels of Washington for keeping his mouth shut. The public may never get to see the statue, but it will be there.
Made of gold no doubt.
Oh dang. We have a money launderer on our hands. Better keep him quiet!
The United States feral government is a RACKETEERING OPERATION.
We The People can ALTER IT as it no longer serves us Americans.
We are living through a DECADES LONG HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF OUR NATION.
Exactly! I keep wondering why we continue paying taxes, knowing what we know.
Off Topic but breaking.
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Eva Marie Saint has passed. She was 102.
Well known for her role in North by Northwest among other films. A true Hollywood legend.
And, ‘On The Waterfront?’ Excellent.
Too late to return and re-raise three generations of upright, honest citizens! This guy should never see the light of day. His accomplices must be revealed and or punished.
on the one hand I could possibly understand why the CIA/fbi might not want to have sensitive classmat in a court room setting.
but on the other hand and both feet, I don’t trust the CIA/FBI who most certainly have some complicity in allowing this to happen for years? and that is probably the more accurate reason why they want this case to go away.
who watches the watchers?
also noting: more than likely the real reason he was “caught” is because he was selfish and greedy and did not elaborate his scheme to make others wealthy. This seems to be the one factor steady in almost all of these high level cases of fraud and corruption. The big fish never get caught or even accused, because they manage to keep everyone “happy”.
God Bless America
The higher ups have probably always known about his (–and others’ ) behavior, without any concern.
Then, he gave up a human source (who probably was killed/tortured).
That was the deal breaker –just a guess.
It is not nice to cheat the big guy out of his 10%.
And his motivation? The Ukies are robbing America blind, so why don’t I get a little.
As a retired corporate CPA with extensive audit experience, I can state that one of the easiest ways to catch crooks like this is by noticing a lifestyle beyond their earnings – the BMWs and a new Rolex every month should have at least aroused suspicions.
Of course, by those criteria, anyone in the Congress over 2 years would be prime suspects. The GAO should offer 10% or more rewards for anyone who reports such lavish spending by bureaucrats in the federal workforce leading to a conviction.
Assuming that the top GAO officials aren’t on the take as well.
I’ve been curious, how do you get a net worth of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on a salary of $170k per year? With living well beyond your visible means of support?
He worked really hard on his side hustles— Mary Kay Cosmetics and Tupperware Parties– 😉
amway? */s
Showing your age, Reg. 🙂
He forgot to do the serpentine.
Dumb ass kept it in his own house, but yet was supposedly a covert Sr. CIA officer? I thought something like this would be CIA 101 even a basic flunky would know not to do.
Today’s CIA isn’t nearly as bright as my 70s-80s buds. Of course they also didn’t steal & cheat.
So says you! Nobody else believes that!
He cannot be that dumb. There has to be several stash houses or drops.
He couldn’t outsmart himself and his selfish ways. Got too focused on the money to notice his own mistakes. He didn’t steal from the government. He stole from us! What a pathetic excuse for a human. He’s less than trash, IMHO.
The dems wish they had got hold of him first. Treasure for their coffers.
He screwed up by stealing 195 Million. If he would have only stolen 30 million like most of them, nobody else involved would have been jealous.
He spied as well
How many more such fraudsters have not been caught?
It was reported that he lied about where he went to school to get the job. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI.
They claimed no student records for him exist. But the world of espionage is one layer of lies and deception on top of another on top of another. I wouldn’t doubt if Rush actually did go to RPI, and the no student records claim is the deception.
Know what else is at RPI? EMPAC. A Brain-Computer Interface research program established by Curtis Priem, a co-founder of Nvidia.
Priem is an alumnus. And RPI has deep ties to intelligence agencies. Brain-Computer Interface. A key technology to master for transhumanism. And Nvidia is deep in bed with national defense and the surveillance state, AI “you will behave” technology.
There is much more to the story than we’ve been told. And while Ukraine may be a part of it there are many more moving parts in the Deep State Globalist agenda than that one. RPI is more significant than just a “fake degree” claim Rush made. More likely the degree or at least enrollment was true. Why it was scrubbed and what the EMPAC/Nvidia/CIA connection really was is as likely a reason it didn’t go to trial as the Ukraine theory.
Nothing changes if nothing changes. The corruption, the theft of the average American citizen is profoundly larger than any of us know. DC is truly a criminal enterprise. Especially the Senate.
I keep asking myself why we Americans must continue to pay taxes for this kind of government
I’m sure he is not the only one stealing money.
That secret agent spy gig is expensive. Sundance should be paid 6 times this for all the conspiracy work over here.
What amazes me is the apparent ease of how he did it!
Everyone that had jobs to do was doing something else beside their job.
How many more cases of gold bars would be required to manufacture another *golden toilet*??
Typo – Former CIA Senior Officer Enters Guilty Plea After Stealing Millions from… ‘Taxpayers’ was accidentally spelt as ‘government’
How much gold and foreign currency does the CIA have?
President Trump has the political criminals trapped. They are in absolute panic and desperation. The “Deep State” corrupt, treasonist players are being exposed as never before. It is only going to get worse for them.
It is a war currently being fought to save the United States and MAGA is winning. The American Patriots are in control and the United States will be what the United States is meant to be.
AMERICA’S TRAITORUS SPY
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Who Stashed Gold Bars Admits to Far Larger $145 Million Scam
The plea hearing revealed a far larger pattern of fraud against the government, while keeping some key secrets still hidden.
A former C.I.A. officer who authorities say stashed hundreds of gold bars in his home admitted in court on Tuesday to a far larger web of deception, including a $145 million scam involving luxury real estate and providing sensitive intelligence to a foreign government official.
The shocking details of the case were revealed in federal court in Alexandria, Va., where David J. Rush pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud, which could earn him up to 20 years behind bars.
The new details of his crimes, however, far surpassed what had been previously known about the unusual case, even as they in some ways deepened the mystery of an episode at the heart of America’s intelligence community that has been cloaked in secrecy.
Those crimes included his admission in court that he had shared the identity of a human source with a foreign government, a grave violation of what is among the C.I.A.’s most highly protected secrets.
https://archive.is/20261006191746/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/politics/cia-officer-gold-bars-guilty-plea.html#selection-4003.0-4007.124
Question is WHEN DID HE START DOING THIS?
UNDER BIDEN?OBAMA?
He couldn’t have stolen so much since PDJT
IMO
Exacute this guy!
Except if one is going to do that, SKIP the pentobarbital that TN served.
Lots of apprehended fentanyl available, I imagine.
we should be outsourcing lethal injection executions to Canada. Jobs Americans cant do.
Public Hanging is the only solution and leave him hanging for at least a month as a warning to the others who are or at least would like to do the same crimes!
The Phenobarb is used to put the condemned into a twilight state then a potassium compound is injected to stop the heart within seconds.
What kind of background check does the CIA have if this creep got a “job” with them? Seems to be outrageoushy lax. And one count of wire fraud is a joke.
During my background check, I know the Investigators made a visit so several of my neighbors in my local community and asked them questions about me. They also went to where I had recently graduated to see if I really did graduate . I also took a polygraph test and had to leave my fingerprints. Surprised the feds didn’t ask to check out my guchie drawer for strange and mysterious underwear that a perv would wear.
Many years later, my identity along with everyone else’s who worked there was stolen. They got everything on me and my family. The only thing they didn’t get were copies of my fingerprints. The agency had to pay for Life Lock for everyone in the hack.
I’d been in Levenworth prison along with HRC if I’d done what this dude has done. Very suspicious cat here. Wire fraud- that’s it? Que bono?
he was a “special hire”. there are MANY “special hires”.
what intrigues me about this the most, is that he was “caught” at all.
that’s non normal for how the CIA operates.
so you stole a bunch of money and no one knows about it except for us, right?
we have a new assignment for you. it involves “managing over 1 billion”, are you interested?
God Bless America
Is the wire fraud/guilty plea just to get him put away so he can be “finalized?”
I’m drawn back to the gold discovered in former NJ Senator Bob Menendez coat pockets before he was hauled off to the gulag. How many other pols have stashed of gold?
This was an interdiction.
He’ll get five years, be out in three and running for Congress 6 months later.
AND, will win.
Does dropping all those other charges for a wire fraud plea deal mean that he is talking??
Or, to get him to zip it?
How was he caught? Who blew the whistle on him? My guess would be he blew the whistle on himself, to save his own skin.
His time was up.
Think that this internal corruption is not limited to this scumbag. The size of the abuse points to a much more widespread problem. Or maybe he was trying to refund USAID operations … ?
This guy is a burned spy. They needed to turn their ppl into his crime.
Tip of the CIA iceberg.
Probably the most significant Todd Blanche prosecution before the clock is run out.
For some reason, this just popped out at me: “Pursuant to the plea agreement, Rush has agreed to forfeit the gold bars and currency found at his home“.
So I guess all the currency and gold bars he has stashed elsewhere are his to keep.