Here's what we know for sure: last week, FBI agents and state officials were seen digging in the ground in part of rural Pennsylvania, in an area called Dents Run.
When George H.W. Bush as a former president visited Kuwait in 1993, Saddam Hussein's intelligence service tried to have Iraqi operatives assassinate him, a plot that was narrowly foiled.
It's alleged that he was paid to work as an agent for a pro-Russian party in Ukraine and indictment details of complex web of financial arrangements to keep vast sums of money secret from the US authorities.