David Rush, the longtime CIA officer who was arrested for allegedly hoarding $40 Million in gold bars at his house, has been linked to President Donald Trump‘s No. 2 man on the Pentagon.
Rush used to work with billionaire Stephen A. Feinberg … in line with NBC Information and The New York Occasions … and that is notable as a result of Feinberg is now Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Protection.
A CIA officer for 17 years, Rush held a senior place contained in the company’s Directorate of Science and Expertise … and he seems to have first come into contact with Feinberg throughout Trump’s first time period, after they have been each reportedly on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Feinberg was the board’s chairman … and the board offered intelligence assortment recommendation to the White Home and spy businesses.
The Occasions experiences some officers instructed them Rush and Feinberg have been NOT shut.
Rush was arrested earlier this month after the FBI mentioned brokers seized greater than $40 Million value of gold bars in a raid on his Virginia house. The feds additionally say they seized $2 Million in money and a bunch of luxurious watches, together with Rolexes.
Rush reportedly claims the gold bars have been for work-related bills.
Court docket paperwork, obtained by the NYT, say Rush requested for and acquired a big amount of international foreign money and tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in gold bars for work-related bills … and when the CIA began investigating the place the gold and money have been stashed, they could not discover it … resulting in the raid on his house.
