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Spain claims all treasure found by Fla. company

                   
floridatoday.com
May 8, 2008
        
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MADRID, Spain — A shipwreck that has yielded an estimated $500 million in treasure is Spanish and a Florida deep-sea exploring firm that recovered the booty should give it all back to Spain, a lawyer for the Madrid government said Thursday. Attorney James Goold said the... [read full story]                    

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Odyssey Claims Its Share Of Loot

 tmcnet.com May 10, 2008
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Spain Claims $500M in Sunken Treasure From Explorers

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Odyssey Claims Its Share Of Loot

tmcnet.com
May 10, 2008
        

Odyssey Claims Its Share Of Loot ... KRT) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 10--TAMPA -- After Spain claimed ownership of a sunken treasure worth an estimated $500 million this week, the Tampa company that recovered the loot has fired back, saying the rightful owner is a...

                   

Spain seeks shipwreck spoils

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May 9, 2008
        

A U.S. company that recovered a sunken treasure from a shipwreck that Spain is claiming says there is no evidence the treasure came from a Spanish warship. ... Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa, Fla. -- which recovered the treasure last year -- said in a statement that...

                   

Spain seeks shipwreck spoils

upi.com
May 9, 2008
        

TAMPA, Fla., May 9 (UPI) -- A U.S. company that recovered a sunken treasure from a shipwreck that Spain is claiming says there is no evidence the treasure came from a Spanish warship. ... Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa, Fla. -- which recovered the treasure last year...

                   
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The Lede: Treasure Finders Aren’t Always Keepers

nytimes.com
May 9, 2008
        

The coins and artifacts recovered from the ocean floor by an American salvage company came from a sunken warship, Spain argues, so they're not fair game. ... The Spanish government is pressing its claim to a deep-sea treasure that it did not know existed until it was...

Israeli premier says funds were legitimate

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May 9, 2008
        

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said yesterday that he had taken contributions from a New York businessman starting in the 1990s but that they were legitimate campaign funds, not bribes, and that he would resign if indicted as a result of a developing investigation into the affair.

                   

For This Treasure, Spain Says, Finders Aren’t Keepers

nytimes.com
May 9, 2008
        

The coins and artifacts recovered from the ocean floor by an American salvage company came from a sunken warship, Spain argues, so they're not fair game. ... The Spanish government is pressing its claim to a deep-sea treasure that it did not know existed until it was...

                   

US treasure hunters dispute ocean haul with Spain

indiatimes.com
May 9, 2008
        

Seventeen tons of silver and gold hauled from the Atlantic came from a Spanish galleon sunk by British warships in 1804, a lawyer said, but the US treasure hunters that found it denied the claim. ... A lawyer for the Spanish government, James Goold, told a Madrid news...

$530m treasure claimed

news.com.au
May 9, 2008
        

SPAIN laid formal claim yesterday to a shipwreck that yielded $530 million in treasure. ... It said it had proof the vessel was Spanish and demanded that a US deep-sea exploration firm return all the booty. Culture Ministry officials said the 19th-century shipwreck at...

Spain Claims Sunken Treasure from Florida Deep-Sea Explorers

freerepublic.com
May 9, 2008
        

MADRID, Spain — Spain formally laid claim Thursday to a shipwreck that yielded a US$500 million treasure, saying it has proof the vessel was Spanish. Officials demanded the return of the booty recovered last year by a U.S. deep-sea exploration firm, saying the 19th-century shipwreck at the heart...

Spain Claims $500 Million in Shipwreck Treasure From Florida Company

firstcoastnews.com
May 9, 2008
        

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Spain claims it has proof the vessel is Spanish and wants a Florida deep-sea exploration firm that recovered the booty give it all back. Spanish officials say the 19th-century shipwreck at the heart of a year-old dispute with Odyssey Marine...

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