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> nobody would be that stupid to store the valuables at home within the first six months after the „acquisition“. But where else would you keep it? A safe-depo
by derefr 5mo ago
> nobody would be that stupid to store the valuables at home within the first six months after the „acquisition“.
But where else would you keep it? A safe-deposit box at a bank?
I think, if I received illegitimate gold bars and figured the FBI might look into that, I would choose to keep them somewhere where a judge would think twice before issuing a search warrant for. Judges don't generally just issue search warrants for residences willy-nilly (because there can often be collateral damage); they're much more blasé about issuing search warrants for safe-deposit boxes.
Or are you imagining he'd go bury the gold in a hole in the woods somewhere?
- unsupp0rted 5mo ago> Or are you imagining he'd go bury the gold in a hole in the woods somewhere? Why not?
- phendrenad2 5mo agoWhy not make multiple trips to carry extremely heavy metal, as a frail office worker, into the woods, which are full of hikers and hunters, on country roads in a suspicious-looking sedan, with a shovel in hand? And then do it all over again whenever you intend to retrieve these gold bars to do whatever it is you want to do with them? Why indeed.
- esseph 5mo ago"as a frail office worker" They could be CIA SAC/SOG, aka Ground Branch.
- Aurornis 5mo agoWhy not carry 600 lbs of gold bars out into the forest and bury them, then hope nobody thought it was suspicious to see someone carrying a shovel into the forest on any one of the trips necessary to do it?
- fc417fc802 5mo agoA small plot of forested rural land without utility service doesn't cost much at all. Go car camping at your new private getaway for a few days. This isn't rocket science. Also if you drive out to a remote part of the US who is going to see you? There are some very empty places in this country. Not quite on the level of Canada or Russia but still.
- nickphx 5mo agoflock or any number of cameras that contribute to flock would see you.
- fc417fc802 5mo agoThey would see you driving out into the sticks to go camping for a few days. That's entirely normal isn't it? We haven't (yet) made it to the level of flock cameras on gravel logging roads.
- lionkor 5mo agoThere are some on hiking trails :)
- DANmode 5mo agoFlock brand?
- kotaKat 5mo agoYup. Gen1 unit with the standard square Flock panel and black pole they always use. https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1tofx8e/flock_camera_on_hikebike_trail/ https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1tofx8e/...
- fc417fc802 5mo ago
- derefr 5mo agoBecause, for someone with any kind of security clearance, suddenly going out to the woods, if you don't normally go out to the woods, would be a major outlier from your highly-scrutinized and documented regular life; and so could easily lead the FBI to finding your buried gold, without having to get any kind of warrant.
- keybored 5mo agoThe security scrutiny is really so thorough that taking up a new apparent hobby gets flagged? That’s impressive.
- tommica 5mo agoThe answer is probably "Yes" if you work at CIA
- colonwqbang 5mo agoI don't think you know what you are talking about.
- ajam1507 5mo agoHow would they know you went out to the woods?
- GoblinSlayer 5mo agoSmartphone will report it.
- valvar 5mo agoJust leave it at home.
- GoblinSlayer 5mo agoIf FBI see you go without a phone, they will know you're a criminal.
- formerly_proven 5mo ago> Judges don't generally just issue search warrants for residences willy-nilly What are you on about, searching homes is the #1 criminal investigation technique once you're able to name a suspect.
- colonwqbang 5mo agoIt's funny, some people commenting here seem to be a bit lost. It's also obvious from the article that his home was indeed searched. The idea that the government would not obtain a warrant if they suspect you of stealing millions...
- phlipski 5mo agoMr. Rush clearly did not watch Breaking Bad... But how did the CIA not check on whether or not he had graduated from one of the three different colleges he listed as graduating from the three different times he applied for a job at the CIA?!?!?
- Aurornis 5mo agoEveryone is a criminal mastermind after reading about someone else getting caught: You only have to say you wouldn’t do the thing that they did and you can smugly imagine yourself getting away with it. He didn’t acquire 300 gold bars and the other currency at once. He was getting these over a long period. He works for an intelligence agency, so he knew that his actions were going to be investigated. If he was doing any of these routines suggested in the comments like buying a rural plot of land to bury them or taking up camping (alone, by himself) these are all going to raise suspicions and become another thing that could give me away.
- 93po 5mo ago> he knew that his actions were going to be investigated I disagree - my take when I first read this was that this was likely a pervasive thing that senior people all did, and they all knew about it. This guy pissed off the wrong person and so they took him down. Same for the lying about credentials - I am sure everyone is like "hey Jim, did you want to apply for that promotion?" with the response of "I can't because I didn't serve long enough", and the final reply of "oh just make up the numbers, everyone does and they don't check".