The feds say they know. Thompson, they say, was also a multimillion dollar scammer who went on the lam rather than pay back his investors after he found millions in treasure at the bottom of the Atlantic.
To cover their tracks, Thompson and Alison Antekeier, his girlfriend, used false names, the U.S. Marshal Service said. And they allegedly paid for everything in cash.
They likely had plenty of it.
Speculations of what the gold loot was worth, and money they allegedly hijacked from investors, have run into the hundreds of millions.
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The couple read up on how to evade authorities, and it worked, the feds said. Marshals investigated around the globe for them.
Then on Wednesday, they found them in the West Palm Beach hotel room. Thompson and Antekeier told officers they knew they had been searching for them.
The couple went with marshals peaceably.
CNN’s Dave Alsup contributed to this report.
