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Ex-CIA official with stash of gold bars pleads guilty to defrauding federal government out of $194 million

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Ex-CIA official with stash of gold bars pleads guilty to defrauding federal government out of $194 million

A former top-ranking senior CIA official pleaded guilty of defrauding the federal government out of $194 million, including $145 million in wire transfers and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars, the U.S. Department of Justice annou…

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