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May 8, 2022 · Tommy Thompson, a deep-sea explorer who found the SS Central America shipwreck in 1988, could get out of the federal prison in Michigan if he would reveal the whereabouts of 500 gold coins ...
Dec 23, 2021 · Tommy Thompson found a gold-buying group that paid him $50m for coins recovered from the SS Central America (AP) The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox ...
Jan 24, 2022 · Tommy Thompson, 69, was held in contempt of court since December 15, 2015, for refusing to share the whereabouts of the missing gold coins valued at roughly $2.5 million. He has been in prison ...
Apr 14, 2023 · Tommy Thompson, the scientist and explorer who discovered three tons of gold from the wreck of the S.S. Central America and later ended up in prison, is the subject of a new docuseries for Nat Geo.
Jan 28, 2015 · The U.S. Marshals Service tracked Tommy Thompson to a hotel in Palm Beach County and arrested him Tuesday, said Brian Babtist, a senior inspector in the agency's office in Columbus, Ohio, where a ...
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Tommy G. Thompson was born in 1941 and raised in Elroy, a small town in west central Wisconsin. His mother was a teacher; his father ran a small business. Enrolling in the University of Wisconsin- Madison, he graduated in 1963 with a double major in History and Political Science before earning a J.D. from the UW Law School in 1966.
Dec 2, 2022 · Tommy Thompson, a former deep-sea treasure hunter, has spent six years in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing coins made from gold found in a historic shipwreck.
