The last time I saw this story, I learned that he was actually jailed for defrauding investors.

Was that not the case? If it is, is the BBC in the unavoidable click-bait game now?

Yes mate insane clickbait.

Look at these passages:

"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.

But last year, the judge agreed to end Thompson's civil contempt sentence, arguing that he was unlikely to ever offer an answer, according to CBS News."

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dwedge 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's confusing because it looks like he was convicted of both

U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley agreed Friday to end Tommy Thompson’s sentence on the civil contempt charge, saying he “no longer is convinced that further incarceration is likely to coerce compliance.” However, he also ordered that the research scientist immediately start serving a two-year sentence he received for a related criminal contempt charge, a term that was delayed when the civil contempt term was imposed.

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consumer451 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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Dylan16807 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> 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 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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?