Treasure Hunter Freed After Refusing to Surrender Shipwreck Gold

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Tommy Thompson, a treasure hunter who discovered the shipwreck of the SS Central America in 1988, has been freed from prison after being jailed in 2015 for refusing to disclose the location of 500 missing gold coins. The case has been ongoing for decades, involving disputes over ownership and the division of the recovered treasure. The shipwreck, which occurred in 1857, was carrying a large quantity of gold when it sank.

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Treasure hunter freed from prison after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold

Tommy Thompson spent more than a decade in prison after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins.

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Tommy Thompson

Tommy George Thompson is an American politician who served as the 19th United States secretary of Health and Human Services from 2001 to 2005 in the cabinet of President George W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 42nd governor of Wisconsin from 1987 to 2001 and Republican floor leader in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1981 to 1987. Thompson is the longest-serving governor in Wisconsin history and is the only person to be elected to the office four times.

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SS Central America

SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, was a 280-foot (85 m) sidewheel steamer that operated between Central America and the East Coast of the United States during the 1850s. She was originally named the SS George Law, after George Law of New York. The ship sank in a hurricane in September 1857, along with 425 of her 578 passengers and crew and 30,000 pounds (13,600 kg) of gold, contributing to the Panic of 1857.

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Statele Unite ale Americii

Statele Unite ale Americii, Statele Unite sau în mod colocvial America este numele unei republici constituționale federale, constând din 50 de state și un district federal. Republica este situată aproape integral în continentul America de Nord, între Canada și Mexic, respectiv Oceanul Atlantic și Oceanul Pacific. Statul Alaska este situat în extremitatea nord-vestică a Americii de Nord, între Canada la est și strâmtoarea Bering la vest. Statul Hawaii este un arhipelag din Oceanul Pacific, situat la circa 3.200 km sud-vest față de sud-vestul statului California. Țara posedă, de asemenea, câteva teritorii în Pacific, respectiv în Caraibe.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of 827,526 in 2024. Among U.S. cities with a population of 300,000 or more, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income, second by population density, and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. Some 4.6 million residents live in the city's metropolitan statistical area, which is the 13th-largest in the United States. Around 9.2 million live in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth-largest in the United States.

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