When federal agents searched David J. Rush’s Virginia home, they uncovered the kind of fortune usually associated with a Hollywood heist: hundreds of gold bars, stacks of cash and luxury watches. But the man behind the collection was a former senior CIA official whose access to government secrets had helped him obtain extraordinary sums of taxpayer money. On October 6, 2026, Rush, 49, pleaded guilty in federal court in Virginia to wire fraud. What initially emerged as a case
