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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Nobody, that is, until 1988, when an Ohio engineer named Tommy Thompson found the shipwreck — with relative ease, apparently. Convincing 160 investors (mostly from his home state of Ohio) to give him almost $13 million to invent a robotic device to find and retrieve the loot from beneath 8,000 feet (2,438 meters) of open ocean, Thompson ...
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.
Thompson has dedicated his professional life to public service, most recently serving as governor of Wisconsin since 1987. Tommy Thompson made state history when he was re-elected to office for a third term in 1994 and a fourth term in 1998. During his 14 years as governor, Thompson focused on revitalizing Wisconsin's economy.
