The Man Who Spent 11 Years in Prison Rather Than Reveal a Gold Treasure's Location
This post highlights the case of Tommy Thompson, a treasure hunter who famously spent over a decade in prison for civil contempt. Thompson was tasked by the court to disclose the location of gold bars recovered from the SS Central America shipwreck, which were valued at approximately $50 million. Despite facing significant daily fines and years of incarceration, he refused to cooperate with authorities regarding the whereabouts of the treasure. The situation sparked widespread public debate regarding the extreme lengths an individual might go to protect assets, with many questioning the true location of the gold and the legal implications of his prolonged silence.
Your Honor, pursuant to Finders v. Keepers...
by the time he gets out it's 100 million
How is it known that he knows where this gold is?
Smart. It would take 3,315 years of continuous full-time work at the US federal minimum wage to earn $50 million.
This could be dangerous information to carry into a prison
Would you go to prison for 10 years and in return receive $518.53 per hour, every hour you are inside?
11 years, enough time to think of thousands of ways to disappear from the grid to collect those gold bars and then melt them to sell them off in small parts regularly. Because, hands down, he will be followed and hunted down by every possible entity, both private people who heard
This is old news. Tommy Thompson got out of jail 6 months ago (March 2026) . . .
He fucked his own workers, the banks the insurance companies are one thing but fucking over the guys who did the work is unacceptable. Fuck this dude.
He's in trouble for ripping off the investors who paid for the expedition, his company was already given rights to 90% of the gold but he never paid the ppl who put up 12 million.