2026年5月27日 美国东部时间晚上9:44 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：奥利维亚·加齐斯
根据法庭记录和知情人士消息，一名前中情局官员上周被捕，此前联邦调查局特工在调查他是否在教育和军事背景上撒谎时，据称在其家中查获价值4000万美元的金条。
法庭文件显示，大卫·拉什目前被关押在看守所，其辩护律师和联邦检察官正“收集并评估更多信息”，以协助法庭决定是否继续羁押他。双方已共同请求将弗吉尼亚州东区美国地方法院的羁押听证会推迟至6月5日。
联邦调查局和中情局在联合声明中表示，拉什是在中情局提交举报后被捕的，中情局内部调查发现其存在“潜在的违法行为”。
中情局和联邦调查局补充称，他们仍在继续调查此事。
代表拉什的辩护律师杰西卡·卡迈克尔拒绝置评。
拉什被控一项挪用公款罪。在一份不同寻常的刑事起诉书中，联邦调查局指控拉什拿走金条、“骗取大幅虚高的薪水，并欺诈性地获取军事休假补贴”，还就自身背景作出一系列虚假陈述。起诉书未明确说明究竟是何种被控行为导致了这项指控。
起诉书称，2025年11月至今年3月期间，拉什据称多次向政府申请获取大量外币和数千万美元的金条用于工作相关开支。
当时拉什的雇主（经消息人士确认是中情局）后来无法找到这些金条，也无法确定其原定用途。
起诉书显示，5月18日联邦调查局特工搜查其住所时，发现了约303根金条，估值超过4000万美元。他们还查获了200万美元现金和35块高档手表。
联邦调查局还指控拉什1997年入伍美国海军时向军方提供成绩单和其他记录， falsely声称自己拥有克莱姆森大学的本科学位。凭借这一虚假学位，拉什于2004年被任命为美国海军预备役少尉，并于2015年荣誉退伍。
起诉书称，他随后三次申请联邦政府职位，均声称拥有克莱姆森大学、伦斯勒理工学院和海军研究生院的学位。他在申请安全许可时也列出了这些学校。
2018年，他提交了加入高级行政部门的申请，声称毕业于美国空军试飞员学校，同时自称是某拥有145名人员、18架飞机的陆军/海军联合武器测试机构的现任测试主管。
“联邦调查局的调查显示，拉什的申请中包含关于其教育背景和美军服役经历的虚假信息，”随起诉书提交的宣誓声明中写道，并指出他从未从克莱姆森大学或伦斯勒理工学院毕业，也从未担任过海军飞行员。
联邦调查局还指控拉什谎称自己仍在海军预备役服役，尽管他早已荣誉退伍，以此骗取了数万美元的军事休假补贴。
Ex-CIA official arrested after $40M in gold bars allegedly found inside his home
May 27, 2026 9:44 PM EDT / CBS News
By Olivia Gazis
A former CIA official was arrested last week after FBI agents allegedly found $40 million worth of gold bars at his home while investigating whether he lied about his educational and military background, according to court records and sources familiar with the matter.
David Rush is currently being held in jail while both his defense attorneys and federal prosecutors “gather and evaluate additional information” to assist the court in determining whether he should remain detained, court filings say. They have jointly requested to postpone his detention hearing until June 5 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
In a joint statement from the FBI and CIA, both agencies said that Rush was arrested following a referral from the CIA, after an internal investigation identified “potential violations of law.”
The CIA and FBI added they are continuing to investigate the matter.
Jessica Carmichael, a defense attorney representing Rush, declined to comment.
Rush was charged with one count of stealing public money. In an unusual criminal complaint, the FBI accuses Rush of taking the gold bars, “obtaining a fraudulently inflated salary and fraudulently obtaining military leave” and making a litany of false statements about his background. The complaint does not specify exactly what alleged conduct led to the charges.
Between November 2025 and March of this year, Rush allegedly made several requests to the government to obtain large amounts of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses, the complaint says.
Rush’s employer at the time, which sources confirmed was the CIA, was not able to later locate the gold bars or determine their intended use.
When FBI agents searched his home on May 18, they found approximately 303 gold bars, in a value estimated to exceed $40 million, the complaint says. They also recovered $2 million in U.S. currency and 35 luxury watches.
The FBI also accused Rush of lying to the U.S. Navy when he enlisted in 1997 by providing them with transcripts and other records falsely indicating he had earned an undergraduate degree from Clemson University. Because of his ostensible degree, Rush was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy Reserves in 2004 and was honorably discharged in 2015.
The complaint says he then applied for employment with the federal government three times, citing degrees from Clemson University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School. He also listed those schools when he applied for his security clearance.
Later, in 2018, he submitted an application to enter senior executive service and claimed to be a graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, as well as the current director of test for a 145-person, 18-aircraft joint Army/Navy weapons test organization, the complaint says.
“The FBI’s investigation has revealed that Rush’s applications contained false information about his education background and work with the United States military,” the sworn statement accompanying the complaint says, noting that he did not graduate from Clemson or RPI, and never served as a pilot for the Navy.
The FBI also accused Rush of telling the government he was in the Navy Reserves even though he had been honorably discharged, allowing him to claim tens of thousands of dollars in compensation for military leave.
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