BND - Former CIA officer pleads guilty to wire fraud involving gold bars

🗞️ Story file #164

Former CIA officer pleads guilty to wire fraud involving gold bars

Oct 6, 5 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

12outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 6🐘left · center · right
2 hourson the front pages
12front pages at once, at its peak

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Oct 6, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 6, 7 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 5 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

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🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 stealing nearly 🐘 bars florida

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

BBC (2 wordings): “Ex-US spy found with $40m in gold bars pleads guilty to wire fraud” → “Ex-US spy who stashed gold bars in his home admits to $200m scam”
Red State (2 wordings): “$194M Fraud Busted: Ex-CIA Official Bought Gold Bars, Florida Homes” → “DOJ $194M Fraud Busted: Ex-CIA Official Bought Gold Bars, Florida Homes Ward Clark”

Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating