You've got backhoe

The Herald's Jay Fitzgerald reports that AOL may turn to golddigging to make some money:

America Online is prepared to take a backhoe to a Medfield couple's yard in a search for as much as $500,000 in hidden gold and platinum bars it believes may have been buried there by their neo-Nazi son who made millions off of Internet spam scams.

AOL, the giant Internet provider, said it's only trying to collect ill-gotten assets from Davis Wolfgang Hawke, a former Westwood High School graduate-turned-neo-Nazi cyber con artist. ...

In the 1990s, Hawke headed one of the fastest growing neo-Nazi groups in the country. He lost his Nazi following in 1999 when the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, revealed his real name was Andrew Britt Greenbaum - seems neo-Nazis don't cotton to people with Jewish fathers. He then discovered a lucrative new career pushing penis-enlargement pills.

Salon report on Hawke's spamming days.