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The families of both said they did not have the money to pay the fines and appealed for their release on humanitarian grounds. The
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Crutchlow paid the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok $ 6,000. Crutchlow said it was his "duty as an Englishman" to help them. "It
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coast." "It was pretty stupid," Graham said later of the whole idea and his decision to follow Knight. "I couldn't believe he was really going on this because it was really strange," Perhaps not so "hare-brained" to others, since according to a US State
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where he claims most of the show was scripted and/or staged, with many of the treasure finds being cheaply made replicas. Graham persevered through a three-year lawsuit against the
Discovery Corporation, in order to keep his First Amendment rights, and his memoir available on bookshelves.
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as the treasure hunting team’s leader during season one and two, where
Discovery Channel used Graham’s personal history to bring credibility to a fully scripted reality TV show. This resulted in a tell-all whistleblower memoir on the media industry, titled
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Graham met Knight on June 7. Knight claimed to be in possession of a map passed down from his grandfather detailing the position of
Captain Kidd's buried treasure. "I knew I had a story," Graham later said, "whether you find treasure or not." They rented a
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American governments to come up with the money, but both refused on grounds it would set a bad precedent. One diplomat complained "The
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on his way home from Ho Chi Minh City. Knight, who had been unable to raise the money for his release, was still held. Knight had raised only $ 2,000 and was said to have been suffering from
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was an Englishman who got them into Vietnam. If he wasn't going to help them, then there had to be an Englishman who could." Crutchlow planned to sell one of his
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So You Want to be a Reality TV Star: Everything I Learned About Sex, Drugs, Fraud, and Rock and Roll as Team Leader of Treasure Quest: Snake Island,
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