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Man, this is why people with enough "karma" have flagging abilities on this website. Please use it on this story. Pure garbage.

• Dylan16807 7mo ago
  > The last time I saw this story, I learned that he was actually jailed for defrauding investors. Was that not the case? > Please use it on this story. Pure garbage. The third sentence of the story is "Investors in Thompson's venture accused him of cheating them out of promised proceeds and after years on the run he was jailed in 2015 on a criminal contempt charge." You could call the title clickbait, I guess? (It seems reasonable enough to me.) But I don't understand your objection to the story itself. It makes it clear that the case was about defrauding investors.
  • consumer451 7mo ago
    Fair. My objection may be founded in other framings of this story where it was implied that "spunky explorer did not tell the big bad goverment where the gold was, so they put him in jail." Honestly, the headline does seem to imply that, no?
  • adi_kurian 7mo ago
    I have to be honest, I was being completely sarcastic, and thought the quotes illustrated how it was legitimate writing.