Some experts have estimated that the Mubarak family has a net worth as high as $70 billion, while others have reported $40 billion, but U.S. intelligence sources told ABC News that the real number is probably much lower.

A senior U.S. official said she “had no clue” why estimates circulating in the media in recent weeks were so much higher. “Maybe they’re counting in dinars,” she said.

No one disputes, however, that Mubarak and his family profited from his long reign, and that he and his wife and sons lived in splendor underwritten by the U.S. government, enjoying a house in London, an opulent presidential palace, a fleet of jets and a vacation home on the Red Sea.