{"id":3873,"date":"2025-02-04T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/deep-sea-treasure-hunter-jailed-for-10-years-for-refusing-to-disclose-location-of-gold-coins-finally-scores-legal-win\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:33:19","slug":"deep-sea-treasure-hunter-jailed-for-10-years-for-refusing-to-disclose-location-of-gold-coins-finally-scores-legal-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/deep-sea-treasure-hunter-jailed-for-10-years-for-refusing-to-disclose-location-of-gold-coins-finally-scores-legal-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-sea treasure hunter jailed for 10 years for refusing to disclose location of gold coins finally scores legal win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/treature-hunter-tommy-thompson-jail-5-years-missing-gold-coins\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">missing gold coins<\/a><\/span> has had that term ended by a federal judge in Ohio, but he will remain behind bars for now.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley agreed Friday to end <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/treasure-hunter-tommy-thompson-jail-6-years-gold-coins-hearing-ingot-auctioned\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Tommy Thompson&#8217;s sentence<\/a><\/span> on the civil contempt charge, saying he &#8220;no longer is convinced that further incarceration is likely to coerce compliance.&#8221; However, he also ordered that the research scientist immediately start serving a two-year sentence he received for a related criminal contempt charge, a term that was delayed when the civil contempt term was imposed.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson has been <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/treasure-hunter-tommy-thompson-jail-6-years-missing-gold-coins\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">held in contempt of court<\/a><\/span> since Dec. 15, 2015, and also incurred a daily fine of $1,000. In his ruling, Marbley assessed Thompson&#8217;s total civil contempt fine at $3,335,000.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ex-treasure-hunter-tommy-thompson-ordered-to-answer-questions-about-missing-gold-coins\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Thompson&#8217;s case<\/a><\/span> dates to his discovery of the S.S. Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, in 1988. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/today-in-history\/august-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ship sank in September 1857<\/a>, along with 425 passengers and crewmembers and 30,000 pounds of federal gold from the new San Francisco Mint to create a reserve for banks in the eastern U.S. The ship was located by Thompson and his team more than 7,000 feet below the surface.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"tommythompsonap16121887543.jpg \" height=\"436\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2015\/01\/28\/2bcb43b3-46ca-4a20-9180-adaa2216be63\/thumbnail\/620x436\/17851a640397bea8ac49ed3219c43d03\/tommythompsonap16121887543.jpg?v=aaeeb2bb1dd1cd7107e4d78154d17e02 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2015\/01\/28\/2bcb43b3-46ca-4a20-9180-adaa2216be63\/thumbnail\/1240x872\/5664ed2effcdbc96ca6b09e8d872dca4\/tommythompsonap16121887543.jpg?v=aaeeb2bb1dd1cd7107e4d78154d17e02 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">In this November 1989 file photo, Tommy Thompson holds a $50 pioneer gold piece retrieved earlier in 1989 from the wreck of the gold ship SS Central America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                AP Photo\/The Columbus Dispatch, Lon Horwedel<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite an investor lawsuit and a federal court order, Thompson still won&#8217;t cooperate with authorities trying to find 500 coins minted from some of the gold, according to court records. He has previously said, without providing details, that the coins &#8211; valued at about $2.5 million &#8211; were turned over to a trust in Belize.<\/p>\n<p>After a federal judge ordered Thompson in 2012 to appear in court to disclose the coins&#8217; whereabouts, Thompson fled to Florida where he lived with his longtime female companion at a hotel where he was living near Boca Raton.\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/feds-reveal-how-fugitive-treasure-hunter-tommy-thompson-eluded-police-for-2-years\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">U.S. marshals tracked him down and arrested him\u00a0<\/a><\/span>in early 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty in April 2015 to skipping that hearing and was given the two-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law generally limits jail time for contempt of court to 18 months. But a federal appeals court in 2019 rejected Thompson&#8217;s argument that that law applies to him, saying his refusal violated conditions of a plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, one of the largest S.S. Central America ingots ever offered at auction, an 866.19-ounce find known as a Justh &amp; Hunter ingot, sold for $2.16 million through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given that Justh &amp; Hunter bars recovered from the S.S. Central America numbered 86 ingots of varying sizes, their experience and integrity ranked them among the most trusted and well-run assay establishments of the momentous Gold Rush era,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coins.ha.com\/itm\/s.s.-central-america-gold-ingots\/justh-and-hunter-gold-ingot-2602-ounces\/a\/1341-4541.s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Heritage Auctions said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Treasure from the \u00a0S.S. Central America has fetched millions of dollars over the years. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.numismaticnews.net\/us-coins\/gold-ingot-tops-heritages-long-beach-sale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2019<\/a>, multiple relics from the shipwreck hauled in more than $11 at auction. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Gold-Rush-brick-sells-for-8-million-80-pound-2860207.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2001<\/a>, an 80-pound ingot was bought by a private collector for a record $8 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"1857 Shipwreck Auction-Gold Rush \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2022\/12\/01\/0f9573d4-6623-46d8-a8f1-8d3c22cd27be\/thumbnail\/620x413\/089b4815072630e72d2389ffcc1ee705\/ap22333837638670.jpg?v=aaeeb2bb1dd1cd7107e4d78154d17e02 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2022\/12\/01\/0f9573d4-6623-46d8-a8f1-8d3c22cd27be\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/176a96edc7bd9d732b600a3a51516658\/ap22333837638670.jpg?v=aaeeb2bb1dd1cd7107e4d78154d17e02 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">In this photo provided by the California Gold Marketing Group is the trunk belonging to S.S. Central America passengers Ansel and Adeline Easton that was discovered on the Atlantic Ocean seabed in 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                California Gold Marketing Group via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/treasure-hunter-jailed-gold-coins-legal-win-tommy-thompson\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1451],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-prison"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deep-sea treasure hunter jailed for 10 years for refusing to disclose location of gold coins finally scores legal win - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tommy Thompson&amp;#039;s case dates to his discovery of the S.S. 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