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4 days agoMan hailed as a hero for finding the Ship of Gold and then jailed for losing the coins now released after a decade in prison | Fortune
Thompson, an Ohio-born research scientist, was hailed as a hero after finding the S.S. Central America and its thousands of pounds of sunken treasure that sat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean for more than 150 years. But in the decades that followed, he battled with investors who accused him of cheating them out of millions and then spent years on the run as a fugitive before being sent to prison.
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