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Ex-CIA official charged with stealing millions of dollars in gold bars (www.npr.org)
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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

From November to March, Rush requested and received a "significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses," according to an affidavit from an FBI agent investigating the case.

??? Rush requested and received [...] tens of millions of dollars in gold bars

He just... Asked for them? Then someone said, 'sure, seems reasonable' And just gave them to him?

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago

That’s how much oversight the CIA gets.

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

“Hey buddy, you better be financing a coup or importing a bunch of drugs to get inner city youths addicted to drugs or running psyops or secret medical experiments or something with these gold bars! We’ve got rules about this kinda thing! We might check up on this later maybe!”