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LEGAL WIN FOR TOMMY THOMPSONGerry Tebben passed along the latest update on the saga of jailed SS Central America treasure finder Tommy Thompson. Thanks. -Editor 
1855 Kellogg & Co. $50 Gold Restrike Thomas "Tommy" Thompson, now 72, has been held in federal prison since 2015 after refusing to tell a judge — or his lawyers — where he stashed a trove of gold coins he recovered from a shipwreck. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley determined Thompson will continue to ignore court orders to provide the treasure's location and keeping him in prison would not change the result. However, Thompson will remain in federal prison for another two years on a criminal contempt finding and face millions of dollars in fines when he is released. With Marbley's decision, Thompson will not be released from prison. In the 1980s, Thompson convinced investors in central Ohio to provide money toward his efforts to locate the wreckage of the S.S. Central America off the coast of South Carolina. The cargo ship, which wrecked in 1857, had been carrying a load of gold. The Dispatch Printing Company, which previously owned The Dispatch, was among those companies that invested in Thompson's excursion. The Dispatch was sold in 2015 and is no longer owned by the Dispatch Printing Company. The article tells a fractured version of history, as we've pointed out before with the help of Bob Evans, the Chief Scientist and Historian for the Columbus-America Discovery Group, the team that recovered the fabulous gold treasure from the wreck of the S.S. Central America. Every ounce of gold recovered from the wreck was accounted for, and the missing gold Thompson is jailed over were 500 commemorative re-strikes of the historical 1855 Kellogg & Co. $50 gold pieces, one of which is pictured above. -Editor
To read the complete articles, see:
The Columbus Dispatch article has a great photo gallery. Here are a few that caught my eye. -Editor 
Bob Evans, Tommy Thompson, ??? 
Bob Evans, Tommy Thompson on Ship 
$20 gold coins salvaged from SS Central America
For the complete photo gallery, see:
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
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