Reed Mideke"A former CIA senior officer with top secret-level clearance has been accused of secretly stashing millions of dollars in gold bars in his home that he said he needed for “work-related expenses,” according to court documents and two people familiar with his employment history"
Would have put CIA near the top of a list of places not to pad your resume, but apparently it worked for him before the gold bars thing went sideways:
"in his first application, he said he graduated from Clemson University in 2000 … he added that he had a graduate degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute … On his third try, in 2009, he succeeded, and he included those degrees and an aircraft test from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. None of it was true"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna347177
"in his first application, he said he graduated from Clemson University in 2000 … he added that he had a graduate degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute … On his third try, in 2009, he succeeded, and he included those degrees and an aircraft test from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. None of it was true"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna347177
CBS story https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-cia-official-arrested-40m-gold-bars-allegedly-found-inside-home/ links to the complaint
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.596235/gov.uscourts.vaed.596235.2.0.pdf
Ex-CIA official arrested after $40M in gold bars allegedly found inside his home
A former CIA official was arrested after FBI agents allegedly found $40 million worth of gold bars at his home while investigating whether he lied about his background.
"Rush's defence lawyer Jessica Carmichael said all the gold bars were accounted for and were a "non issue" … She said that when the FBI searched his home, Rush told investigators about the bars, which were locked and stored in his basement, and gave them codes to access them" - I mean, if your workplace isn't willing to lend you 303 kg of gold bars to take home and admire, do they really value you as an employee?
WaPo scoop on the obvious question of how Rush convinced the CIA he had some legitimate need for the gold: "Rush, who was arrested last month and charged with one count of theft of public money, constructed what is known as a special access program,' … the criminal probe found that Rush 'read in,' or initiated, two colleagues into the highly secretive sham program"
"It remains unclear, for example, how Rush could single-handedly create a “black box” for a fictional spy program without sign-off from his superiors. It is also unclear whether the two colleagues Rush brought into the fake program knew it was fraudulent. One of the people familiar with the probe said Rush’s fake program involved “continuity of government” operations, or programs to keep the U.S. federal government running in the event of nuclear war, natural disasters or other catastrophes"