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华盛顿——今年5月在家中被搜出价值4000万美元金条的一名前中情局官员于周二认罪，承认通过编造虚假机密项目挪用近2亿美元政府资金，用于购买佛罗里达州豪宅和金条。
戴维·拉什在弗吉尼亚州联邦法院的听证会上承认了一项电信诈骗罪名。
根据认罪协议条款，拉什同意没收至少1.94亿美元资产，包括298根金条、两辆宝马汽车、35块奢侈品腕表以及佛罗里达州的四处豪宅。他最高面临20年监禁。
在一份详述指控内容的刑事起诉文件中，检察官表示拉什编造了一个虚假机密项目，通过一家空壳公司转移了1.45亿美元政府资金，并用这笔钱购买佛罗里达州房产，计划转售牟利。此外，他还“编造了另一项所谓的敏感政府行动，为购买金条提供借口”，检察官称。
“尽管房产和金条交易涉及不同的交易流程和中介机构，但二者均属于同一整体诈骗计划的实施环节——拉什编造虚假的机密授权，指导并批准相关支出，指使承包商和分包商完成交易，随后掌控所购资产，”文件写道。
检察官表示拉什曾接触“高度敏感和机密的政府项目”，尽管文件并未明确提及他的前雇主为中情局。该情报机构和联邦调查局此前表示，调查始于中情局将此事移交联邦调查局。在支持最初刑事指控的宣誓书中，拉什被描述为弗吉尼亚州东部某政府机构的“前高级行政服务级雇员”。
文件显示，拉什指使一家代号为“第一公司”的未具名承包商向其定向设立的控股公司转账约1.45亿美元。随后他指示该控股公司及其分包商的员工将资金转入他控制的另一家控股公司，并用这笔资金购买了佛罗里达州棕榈滩和霍贝桑德的四处房产。
拉什于5月被捕。联邦调查局人员在对其住宅执行搜查令时，查获了金条、200万美元现金和奢侈品腕表。检察官周二表示，该控股公司账户中仍有约3860万美元余额。
文件称，拉什告知这些未具名承包商“他正在参与一项绝密项目，需要向未具名人员交付高价值商品”，并以此为借口购买金条。其中一名承包商于1月向该控股公司转账4500万美元，这笔交易成为电信诈骗指控的核心依据。
拉什最初被控一项盗用公款罪名，调查人员称他在政府入职申请中伪造了教育和兵役经历，并在退伍后欺诈性地申领军事休假。
今年6月，一名联邦法官下令拉什在案件审理期间继续被羁押，认定其存在极高的潜逃风险。
在羁押听证会上，政府律师将拉什称为“操控大师”，称他向邻居谎称自己是飞行员，欺骗同事，并利用其“资深资历带来的权限”。一名司法部律师表示，拉什“不值得信任”，且“完全有能力规避规则”。
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联邦调查局称在前中情局官员住宅内查获数百万美元金条、腕表和现金
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Ex-CIA official found with gold bars admits to sprawling scheme, agrees to forfeit $194 million
2026-10-06 15:23 EDT / CBS News
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Updated on: October 6, 2026 / 3:25 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — A former CIA official who was found with $40 million in gold bars in his home in May pleaded guilty on Tuesday, admitting he invented fake classified programs to divert nearly $200 million in government money that he used to buy Florida mansions and gold.
David Rush entered a guilty plea on a single count of wire fraud during a hearing in federal court in Virginia.
As part of his plea agreement, Rush agreed to forfeit at least $194 million, including 298 gold bars, two BMWs, 35 luxury watches and four luxury homes in Florida. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
In a filing known as a criminal information detailing the allegations Rush admitted to, prosecutors said he invented a fake classified program to steer $145 million in government funds through a front company, using the money to purchase the homes in Florida that he intended to resell for profit. Separately, he “fabricated a separate purported sensitive government activity to justify the acquisition of gold bars,” prosecutors said.
“Although the real estate and gold acquisitions involved different transactions and intermediaries, they were executions of the same overarching scheme — RUSH created false classified authorities, directed and approved the associated expenditures, caused contractors and subcontractors to carry out the transactions, and thereafter exercised possession or control over the acquired assets,” the filing said.
Prosecutors said Rush had access to “highly sensitive and classified government programs,” although the filing does not name the CIA as his former employer. The spy agency and FBI said previously that the investigation began when the CIA referred the matter to the bureau. In the affidavit supporting the original criminal complaint against him, he was described as a “former Senior Executive Service level employee” at a government agency in eastern Virginia.
The document said Rush caused an unidentified contractor known as Company 1 to transfer about $145 million to a holding company set up at his direction. He then instructed employees at that company and a subcontractor to route that money to a holding company that he controlled, and used the funds to purchase four properties in Palm Beach and Hobe Sound, Florida.
Rush was arrested in May. FBI agents found the gold bars, $2 million in cash and luxury watches when executing a search warrant at his home. Prosecutors said Tuesday that the holding company had about $38.6 million left in its account.
Gold bars and stacks of cash seized during a search of David Rush’s home. Justice Department
The gold bars were purchased after Rush told the unnamed contractors “that he was working on a Top-Secret project in which he had to deliver high-value commodities to unnamed individuals,” the information said. One of the contractors wired $45 million to the holding company in January, a transaction that forms the basis of the wire fraud charge.
Rush was originally charged with one count of stealing public money, with investigators saying he had provided false information about his education and military service on his government application, and fraudulently took military leave after his service ended.
In June, a federal judge ordered Rush to remain in custody as the case proceeded, determining that he posed a severe flight risk.
At his detention hearing, government lawyers called Rush a “master manipulator” who lied to his neighbors about being a pilot, lied to his co-workers and leveraged his “access to seniority.” A Justice Department lawyer said Rush “cannot be trusted” and is “fully willing and able to skirt the rules.”
Callie Teitelbaum contributed to this report.
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