Treasure hunters who believe they led FBI to huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania sue the agency for failing to reveal what they found in secret excavation four years ago

AP & Daily Mail ^ | 5 January 2022 | ASSOCIATED PRESS and ALEX HAMMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

[V_TWIN]

“lost by the US government in 1863”

Oh boy....theirs to begin with will be the argument....and probably a good one.

[Jewbacca]

Note to self: the FBI are just the enforcement arm of an organized crime group, at best. Gestapo Lite at worst.

[FLT-bird]

They were incredibly stupid for ever disclosing it to anybody. Shovel and shut up.

[The_Media_never_lie]

98% of FBI agents give the other 2% a bad name.

[stevio]

If I witness an FBI agent in distress, I will not lend a hand.

[V_TWIN]

“Shovel and shut up”

And MELT MELT MELT

[Hieronymus]

Yes but in a just world they would give the finders a cut.

[metmom]

There has got tobe ways of dispersing finds like that slowly, without raising suspicions.

At the very least, melt it down.

[BiglyCommentary]

Sure, many ways to do it if you are not too impatient and/or too greedy.

[Georgia Girl 2]

The US govt always does this with treasure. If you find a cache just dig it up and walk away and never tell anybody about it.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Dennis Parada said. ‘I don’t understand why they played that game on us.”

You don’t understand why. Really?

[GingisK]

What possessed them to call the FBI?

[G Larry]

At a minimum, inventory the find and file the paperwork for the finder’s fee.

[Bonemaker]

“Treasure hunters who believe they led FBI...”

Mistake No. 1. Been better off telling the Mob.

[Not_Who_U_Think]

“Theze two are dumber than dumb. They should have just quietly found and spirited away the loot.”

They could have done that, but not only would it be hard to hide the riches from the tax man, but in this case they’ve got a clear claim. It wasn’t lost gold, it was just hidden after a robbery.

[kalee]

Is this supposed to be the lost Confederate treasury? How did it get to PA? It has long been thought to be hidden somewhere near Danville, VA.

[epluribus_2]

Likely financed 2018 and 2020 election cheating, you know, jus need to spread some o’ that money around and voila, ballots in trunks, ads on cable, twitter, faceplace, billboards, volunteer group training.

[larrytown]

I’d have more credulity that this is to cover up the sheer embarrassment of some management type that authorized the excavation in the first place.

No government cover-up is as powerful as the stupid trying to cover up their own stupid.

[larrytown]

A pair of fools. Never, ever trust the government to do the right thing.

And speaking of fools - why all the suspension of disbelief that leads to any serious consideration that there was an actual cache to be found? Just because two rubes say so?

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

No. From the article;

According to legend, the gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in 1863.

The gold was sent by President Abraham Lincoln to pay Union soldiers and was last spotted in St Marys, Pennsylvania, traveling northeast toward the capital.

When the wagon train didn't arrive at the Mint, searchers were sent out and discovered only empty wagons and the bodies of dead soldiers.