Emails: FBI was looking for gold at Pennsylvania dig site

[dalton99a]

https://hosted.ap.org/article/9b6b5fc3f7550ba30edbca0845e911ce/emails-fbi-was-looking-gold-pennsylvania-dig-site

Mar. 8, 2021 4:42 PM EST
Emails: FBI was looking for gold at Pennsylvania dig site
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Associated Press

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.

[Liberty Belle]

1. Since this is under the Trump administration, one wonders if they found and looted the treasure.

A good FOIA for someone to do would be to ask the FBI for a record of any treasures actually recovered under this program.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Sounds like a Trumpcon.

Lead them on a wild goose chase, then sue them for not producing non-existent evidence that absolves them. Better nip this Trumpcon in its bud.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Ummm, why does anyone think there's actually lost gold?

. . .legend has it an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.

Any real proof the gold existed in the first place?

[twin_ghost]

4. Have you ever heard of Oak Island?

There is supposed to be buried treasure there and millionaires have spent a lot of money trying to find it. There is a sucker born every minute.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Yep. I've heard of Oak Island, and pretty sure no one has ever found gold there.

You are so right about a sucker born every minute.

It's pretty depressing to think that the FBI would be that gullible.

[Best_man23]

6. tRump's probably got this idea after hearing a story about a cash box of gold coins

The story came from a guy by the name of "Jackson" who was going by the name of "Bill Carson."

If you're not familiar with the movie "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", this story line I just quoted is from that movie. It would not surprise me one bit if tRump passed out from an Adderall binge, this movie came on the TV while he was passed out or in twilight stupor, and that's how he got the idea for this wild goose chase.