Trusting the FBI - yet another story

Shows that their corruption extends beyond political circles - from the London Daily Mail:

Treasure hunters who believe they led FBI to huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania sue the agency for failing to reveal what they found in secret excavation four years ago

• • Fortune seekers Dennis and Kem Parada have filed suit against the DOJ over its failure to produce documents related to FBI's search at remote woodland site
  • The pair say they led agents to the site in March 2018 and were subsequently barred from participating in the ensuing search
  • The Paradas - who together comprise the lost treasure locate and recovery service Finders Keepers - are not buying the agency's claims
  • According to the pair's lawyer, the FBI has dragged its feet on the treasure hunters' Freedom of Information Act request for records for proof of its findings
  • 'There's been a pattern of behavior by the FBI that's been very troubling,' public interest lawyer Anne Weismann said Wednesday of the case
  • The suit asks that a federal judge to order the agency to immediately turn over records detailing the search

A father-son duo of Pennsylvania treasure hunters have sued the FBI for failing to produce records chronicling a top-secret excavation the agency administered in the state nearly four years ago that may have yielded a $400 million cache of Civil War-era gold.

Court documents unsealed earlier this year revealed that the bureau had in fact engaged in the previously undisclosed dig in Elk County in search of the fabled treasure, lost by the US government in 1863.

The filing attested that agents engaged in the dig came up empty-handed.

Fortune seekers Dennis and Kem Parada, however - who together comprise the lost treasure locate and recovery service Finders Keepers - are not buying the agency's claims, after leading agents to the excavation site in 2018.

They are now suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) in hopes of obtaining the bureau's official records detailing the hush-hush dig.

Somehow I am not surprised.  The whole agency was founded on keeping secrets, not policing the USA against foriegn and domestic threats.  It's first director maintained dossiers on all politicians and businessmen and if one of them did not do what he wanted, an envelope with some incrominating photographs would mysteriously show up on their desk.  Not surprised that something like this would happen.

Of course, once the $400 million was dug up, the $300 million was sent to FBI district office where the $200 million was locked up for safe-keeping until agents could figure out what to do with the $100 million in loose coins worth about $47.23 on the open market.  I bet some agents got a nice bonus that year - off the books of course...