Behind the walls of some of Florida’s most expensive homes, investigators say, lay a spending spree funded not by private wealth but by money allegedly siphoned from the US government. According to Yahoo News, a former senior CIA official now faces the loss of a multimillion-dollar property portfolio, gold bars and luxury possessions after admitting to a scheme that prosecutors say exploited the secrecy surrounding classified intelligence operations to defraud the federal government of approximately $194 million.