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TAMPA - Sunken treasure-hunting company Odyssey Marine of Tampa today formally asked a federal court to kick the United States out of a legal dispute Odyssey is having with Spain over a half-billion dollars in silver and gold that Odyssey found on the ocean floor in 2007.
The reason: Recent diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks that suggest that U.S. ambassadors offered special help – not to U.S.-based Odyssey – but to Spain in exchange for help returning to a U.S. citizen a French painting that Nazis had confiscated in World War II that now hangs in a museum in Madrid.
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