On May 18, F.B.I. agents searched Mr. Rush’s home and found “approximately 303 gold bars, each of which weighed approximately one kilogram,” according to an affidavit. Based on the price of gold, the affidavit said, the estimated value of the gold exceeded $40 million. Investigators also seized nearly three dozen luxury watches, many of them Rolexes.
The court papers do not indicate why Mr. Rush appears to have kept so much gold, and $2 million in U.S. currency, in his home, or what work project would have required him to amass such wealth.
I thought everyone had seen Snowfall by now…
Like, if a cia agent has millions of dollars, it’s pretty clear they were skimming from a program like that, it’s not like he carried 600+ lbss of gold out of an evidence room.
Rush. Gold Rush.
At first I thought maybe this was an FBI vs. CIA thing but nope. CIA actually sniffed this out themselves and turned it all over to the FBI.
He was supposed to use that gold to buy crack for inner city Baltimore, goddamn it!!!
“Dammit, Smith! CIA agents are supposed to distribute crack to the inner city, not smoke it themselves!”
Definition of the phrase “more money than he knows what to do with”
“a SMALL fortune” the article says. Glad they are in touch with common Americans.
