[E. Pluribus Unum]

Like I said before, they should have shoveled and shut up.

Then they could have waited until they had a tax shelter set up to declare that they just now found it.

At least that would have allowed them to do it in their own time.

[forgotten man]

The top marginal income tax rate in California is 11%. They could have bought property in Nevada, with no income tax, and claimed that they found it there.