Guy who took home $40 million in gold bars from CIA office supply closet is criminally charged with padding his resume.
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Guy who took home $40 million in gold bars from CIA office supply closet is criminally charged with padding his resume. Because you have to draw the line somewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/cia-official-gold-theft-trial@mattblaze
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Aha. The padding CV attack.@mkilmo @mattblaze Right, he didn't use OAEP…
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@ai6yr They need to put up a strongly worded sign. GOLD BARS ARE FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY.
@mattblaze @ai6yr Yah, but they probably came from the petty gold bar drawer.
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@mattblaze LOL, the CIA just has gold bars lying around in the office? Gee, I just got promotional pens at work.
@ai6yr @mattblaze if a movie had a CIA official taking gold out of an office safe to, for example, bribe an official of a foreign government, or a corrupt CIA official saying it was for that and embezzling it because sometimes oversight is lax and you don't keep an auditable paper trail of that sort of thing (and movie), I wouldn't question it. But "for work-related expenses"?
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Guy who took home $40 million in gold bars from CIA office supply closet is criminally charged with padding his resume. Because you have to draw the line somewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/cia-official-gold-theft-trial@mattblaze This story is crazy for so many reasons. Gold bars in the office? (Well I had a friend who was sent overseas with a literal bag full of cash for reasons I wasn't privy to but apparently the mission worked out...still less crazy than gold bars in the office)
Rush falsified his educational qualifications and military service to secure his job with the CIA, which he joined in 2009 and secured “top secret/secure compartmented information clearance”
The CIA gives full scope polys including the SES level, how did he use a largely fraudulent resume to get his job.
Rush is also alleged to have committed timecard fraud.
Oh that'll do it. I've seen senior civil servants marched out the door immediately for time card fraud when other infractions would've been investigated interminably. Time card fraud, that's it (well it used to be before our current era of lawlessness).
This is almost laughable when you look at the billions Trump is stealing from taxpayers and getting in payola from foreign countries & companies.
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@ai6yr @mattblaze if a movie had a CIA official taking gold out of an office safe to, for example, bribe an official of a foreign government, or a corrupt CIA official saying it was for that and embezzling it because sometimes oversight is lax and you don't keep an auditable paper trail of that sort of thing (and movie), I wouldn't question it. But "for work-related expenses"?
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I'll bet he left the light on in the bathroom, too.
@mattblaze microwaved fish.
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@mattblaze This story is crazy for so many reasons. Gold bars in the office? (Well I had a friend who was sent overseas with a literal bag full of cash for reasons I wasn't privy to but apparently the mission worked out...still less crazy than gold bars in the office)
Rush falsified his educational qualifications and military service to secure his job with the CIA, which he joined in 2009 and secured “top secret/secure compartmented information clearance”
The CIA gives full scope polys including the SES level, how did he use a largely fraudulent resume to get his job.
Rush is also alleged to have committed timecard fraud.
Oh that'll do it. I've seen senior civil servants marched out the door immediately for time card fraud when other infractions would've been investigated interminably. Time card fraud, that's it (well it used to be before our current era of lawlessness).
This is almost laughable when you look at the billions Trump is stealing from taxpayers and getting in payola from foreign countries & companies.
@Nonya_Bidniss Right? It seems like faking your resume (and falsely claiming to be in the reserves) would be virtually impossible for a job requiring a background investigation for an SCI clearance. I've had investigators call me about students from a decade ago to confirm that they were actually in my courses.
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@Nonya_Bidniss Right? It seems like faking your resume (and falsely claiming to be in the reserves) would be virtually impossible for a job requiring a background investigation for an SCI clearance. I've had investigators call me about students from a decade ago to confirm that they were actually in my courses.
@Nonya_Bidniss The only thing plausible I can think of is that he lied his resume, but not on the SF86, and he got the job based on the CV, but was investigated off the SF86.
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@mattblaze This story is crazy for so many reasons. Gold bars in the office? (Well I had a friend who was sent overseas with a literal bag full of cash for reasons I wasn't privy to but apparently the mission worked out...still less crazy than gold bars in the office)
Rush falsified his educational qualifications and military service to secure his job with the CIA, which he joined in 2009 and secured “top secret/secure compartmented information clearance”
The CIA gives full scope polys including the SES level, how did he use a largely fraudulent resume to get his job.
Rush is also alleged to have committed timecard fraud.
Oh that'll do it. I've seen senior civil servants marched out the door immediately for time card fraud when other infractions would've been investigated interminably. Time card fraud, that's it (well it used to be before our current era of lawlessness).
This is almost laughable when you look at the billions Trump is stealing from taxpayers and getting in payola from foreign countries & companies.
@Nonya_Bidniss @mattblaze I was under the impression that they _read_ what you put down on your SF86. Could've saved myself a few hours of paperwork and doodled on it!
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@mattblaze This story is crazy for so many reasons. Gold bars in the office? (Well I had a friend who was sent overseas with a literal bag full of cash for reasons I wasn't privy to but apparently the mission worked out...still less crazy than gold bars in the office)
Rush falsified his educational qualifications and military service to secure his job with the CIA, which he joined in 2009 and secured “top secret/secure compartmented information clearance”
The CIA gives full scope polys including the SES level, how did he use a largely fraudulent resume to get his job.
Rush is also alleged to have committed timecard fraud.
Oh that'll do it. I've seen senior civil servants marched out the door immediately for time card fraud when other infractions would've been investigated interminably. Time card fraud, that's it (well it used to be before our current era of lawlessness).
This is almost laughable when you look at the billions Trump is stealing from taxpayers and getting in payola from foreign countries & companies.
@Nonya_Bidniss @mattblaze Time card fraud is really easy to prove with security cameras.
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@Nonya_Bidniss @mattblaze Time card fraud is really easy to prove with security cameras.
@adamshostack @Nonya_Bidniss In this case the time fraud was claiming time off for the reserve duty he wasn't actually doing because he wasn't in the reserves.
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Guy who took home $40 million in gold bars from CIA office supply closet is criminally charged with padding his resume. Because you have to draw the line somewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/cia-official-gold-theft-trial@mattblaze They got Capone on tax evasion.
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@Nonya_Bidniss The only thing plausible I can think of is that he lied his resume, but not on the SF86, and he got the job based on the CV, but was investigated off the SF86.
@mattblaze I guess I could see this since the SF86 and resume go through separate pipelines, but you still have the investigator as a wild card. Seems like a huge risk, since those lies come with penalties if the govt chooses to pursue them even if you don't get the job. But this guy was obviously just fine with huge risks!
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@Nonya_Bidniss @mattblaze Time card fraud is really easy to prove with security cameras.
@adamshostack @mattblaze Don't even need cameras, the badging system does the work. But yeah ref. Matt's comment
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@adamshostack @mattblaze Don't even need cameras, the badging system does the work. But yeah ref. Matt's comment
@Nonya_Bidniss @mattblaze True. Cameras make for a very visceral case but the badge system is probably enough
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@mattblaze LOL, the CIA just has gold bars lying around in the office? Gee, I just got promotional pens at work.
You get promotional pens?
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@mattblaze LOL, the CIA just has gold bars lying around in the office? Gee, I just got promotional pens at work.
you have your idea of office supplies; the CIA has theirs...
i'm sure they make great paperweights, doorstops, propping up table legs, suborning foreign assets. you know. just your normal day at the office.
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@ai6yr They need to put up a strongly worded sign. GOLD BARS ARE FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY.
@ai6yr PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE OF YOUR CO-WORKERS AND TAKE ONLY AS MANY GOLD BARS AS YOU NEED.
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@ai6yr PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE OF YOUR CO-WORKERS AND TAKE ONLY AS MANY GOLD BARS AS YOU NEED.
PLEASE DO NOT SMELT GOLD BARS
IN THE MICROWAVE. THANK YOU.
