Emails: FBI was looking for gold at Pennsylvania dig site

AP ^ | March 8, 2021 | By MICHAEL RUBINKAM

[Red Badger]

Go for the gold? The U.S. government went for it.

FBI agents were looking for an extremely valuable cache of fabled Civil War-era gold — possibly tons of it — when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago this month, according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case.

On March 13, 2018, treasure hunters led the FBI to Dent’s Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend has it an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.

The FBI has long refused to confirm why exactly it went digging, saying only in written statements over the years that agents were there for a court-authorized excavation of “what evidence suggested may have been a cultural heritage site.”

In any event, the FBI says, the dig came up empty.

But the father-son duo who brought a small army of federal agents to the site remain convinced the FBI uncovered something there — and their lawyer, Bill Cluck, is still pressing the case, successfully suing for access to government emails about the dig.

Those documents, which Cluck provided to The Associated Press, show that federal law enforcement was indeed after buried treasure.

“We believe the cache itself is in the neighborhood of 3x5x8 (feet) to 5x5x8,” wrote K.T. Newton, an assistant U.S attorney in Philadelphia, in a 2018 email marked “Confidential.”

[Keyhopper]

Guess all those confederate bills I have are useless.
I wonder what a 1905 5$ gold piece is worth?

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Ingots like these are not forgotten by those who buried it. They retrieved it looong ago.
.........................................
Unless they died before they got the chance!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

A Confederate dollar bill today is worth more than a US dollar bill.

[Keyhopper]

These were $100 notes

[Oatka]

He would tell me stories about how FDR seized gold in the 30’s,

I read where two brothers, just before the order, converted $20,000 in gold certificates into gold coin. AFTER the order, fed agents tracked them down, seized the gold, and gave them $20,000 in paper. They took the issue to the Supreme Court and they said, in effect, that since they got their $20,000 back, there was no injustice. When I read that, I put the Court in the same "Political Hacks" category as the politicians.

[Lazamataz]

This very Executive Order gives me no hope that Kamala Biden won’t just seize guns by this method.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Nobody on this thread has mentioned Gen. Braddock’s gold payroll treasure that was buried somewhere between Fort Cumberland and Fort Necessity in the Allegheny Mountains along the old Nemacolin Indian Trail. I know people who have spent hundreds of hours searching the Big Savage Mountain section of the trail with metal detectors.

[Mean Daddy]

The first house we bought was owned by a big bookie. I guess he got wind he was about to be arrested & absconded to Mexico. I guess there were agents at his mom’s funeral when she died a couple years later. His kids would travel to Mexico once or twice a year.

My neighbor said I should have ripped the walls out to see if there was any cash behind them!! It was an older plaster/lathe house with no noticeable damage to the walls.

[for-q-clinton]

LMAO! GOOD One!

[a fool in paradise]

The Trillions the Democrats stole today rival any “lost gold”

[Kommodor]

Whistle whistle whistle (waaah waaah waaah)

Totally needs the theme music to go with that gif.

[scrabblehack]

It sounds as though the gold actually belongs to the U.S. Mint.

I agree that looking for it after 160 years is a fool’s errand.

[GOYAKLA]

It was the fbi digging, as always, in the wrong place!
should have been in Virginia. See link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers
*** ;^}

[PCPOET7]

they are not even trying to hide it....the 1400 is a bribe so the masses will be calmed enough to ignore there crimes for the short term. Long term I think they know the jigg is up and are out to steal what they can and if possible. assure that democracy dies in the next 2 years

[RedMonqey]

OK, OK, you got me.

I’m not an expert on electromagnetic pulse (EMP, not “EMT”)

But I did stay at an Holiday Inn....

[RedMonqey]

In a haul this large there would be more than one person. And people talk.

I do remember a case where a guy stole gold or silver bullion from the San Francisco mint around the 1900s(IIRC)and he buried a lot of the coins. He died and the coins were later found by accident.

[RedMonqey]

Turn off the power and cut cell networks and buh-bye access. Same as any debit/credit card or phone app for payment.

Which is why it is folly to go all "electronic transfers" as some Nordic countries have proposed.

Cash is King and I keep enough on hand to pay any bills for three months I might have to pay if somebody hacks my bank account.

[RedMonqey]

You want to find out where it went? Look to families that had sudden, unexplained, wealth starting within a year or sold of when this went missing

As you said, records would be hard to establish and the guilty long dead. Still I doubt any gold hoard will be found. If this really happened, it probably was "discovered' long ago.

I saw an show where the premise was 'finding Jesse James gold" I bought into the premise until the guy leading the search said his metal detector beeped a large deposit of metal at an certain depth.(a few feet) They dug. And dug. Then brought in a backhoe. They went down nearly twenty feet and that's when I threw up my hands. No bank robber on the run is going to dig a hole that deep in the middle of nowhere, and hide a bagful of loot. No friggin' way. to The Oak Island money pit was more plausible than this!!

[RedMonqey]

Years ago I bought an old house that was unoccupied for many years.

You should have bought an old house in my hometown.

Years ago an contractor bought and demolished an antebellum era house in town. His bulldozer crew was leveling the structure when the driver noticed something shiny in the ruble. Turned out there was a large amount of silver and gold coins hidden in the attic, they said(I think it was in the walls) Speculation was the original owner hide this tidy hoard during the Civil War or didn't trust the banks of that era(tended to fail alot) The contractor retired very comfortably.

[RedMonqey]

(That’s funny)