A Pennsylvania court ruling could help private treasure hunters in their quest to learn if the FBI dug up a fabled cache of lost Civil War gold worth tens of millions of dollars.
A Harrisburg lawyer has convinced a state court to pry loose information he claims might reveal whether the FBI is hiding the fact that it dug up a long-lost cache of Civil War gold in the depths of a Pennsylvania forest last year. ...
Both agencies said those records were off limits because of a federal court order that sealed all information regarding the dig, which has been classified by the feds as an ongoing criminal probe.
Brobson found that isn’t the case. The federal court order “does not provide any conceivable basis” for barring release of the communications between DCNR and the FBI, he concluded. So, he said, Cluck can have those records under the state’s Right to Know Law.
There are indications that Finders Keepers might have been shut out of a treasure hunt it initiated....
Yet after digging at the site, the FBI claimed it found nothing, Cluck told the state court. That’s when he started seeking the FBI-DCNR communication records.
In a story published last October, CBS News reported that Finders Keepers principals Dennis and Kem Parada were escorted to the dig site by the FBI and shown the empty hole. The pair were skeptical about the FBI’s insistence that nothing was found, however, and the court fight ensued. More at link- https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/1...-find-out.html
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