{"id":1512782,"date":"2026-06-05T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=98b996f890592f62afdb1bcd56d3ca7f"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:53:44","slug":"former-cia-officer-who-had-303-gold-bars-in-his-home-ordered-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512782","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA officer who had 303 gold bars in his home ordered detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ebf03ae54a0ceebc7b91b324f2cc4304-1-scaled.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>(WASHINGTON) -- A former CIA officer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/former-cia-officer-allegedly-defrauded-government-lying-credentials\/story?id=133366001\"><span class=\"s1\">accused<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;of stealing money from the government by lying about his academic credentials and military experience who authorities said had roughly $40 million worth of gold bars stashed in his house was ordered detained pending trial Friday by a federal judge in Virginia.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"p1\">David Rush was described by a Justice Department prosecutor as a \"master manipulator\" who \"cannot be trusted\" -- detailing a damning track record of lies that the government says only grows by the day as the FBI and intelligence community continue their investigation.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A former CIA officer&nbsp;accused&nbsp;of stealing money from the government by lying about his academic credentials and m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":1512792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ebf03ae54a0ceebc7b91b324f2cc4304-1-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 14:20:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ebf03ae54a0ceebc7b91b324f2cc4304-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512794,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512782\/revisions\/1512794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}