[mewzilla]

Where did they get the money from taht to live that sort of life in DC?

Oil For Food?

[Miss Marple]

That's my theory. OFF.

[angkor]

Wilson (evidently) retired from 22 years with State in 1998, around the time they bought the house.

Unless they had family money, it's unclear how a married federal-employee couple could afford an $800K/$900K house.