article_snippet.sent: A fugitive treasure hunter who took gold worth millions of dollars from a shipwreck before spending years on the run is finally facing jail.
article_snippet.sent: Tommy Thompson, then an oceanic engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, and Tommy Thompson crew brought up thousands of bars and coins, much of his crew later sold to a gold marketing group in 2000 for about $50 million.
article_snippet.sent: Tommy Thompson was accused of cheating Tommy Thompson 161 investors, who paid $12.7 million to find the ship, out of the proceeds.
article_snippet.sent: In civil proceedings brought by a number of the backers they claimed the find was worth up to $260 million.
article_snippet.sent: A man who had worked for the couple later discovered wads of cash hidden in the pipes and a book called How To Be Invisible at the property.
highlights_snippet.sent: Allegedly failed to share profits with investors and went on the run .
  