Hilton Still Has Plans For A Military Training Center In Hardin, MT
CA con man says he still has plans in MT
CA con man says he still has plans in MTAssociated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — A convicted con artist from California who roiled a southeastern Montana community with his unlikely bid to take over its empty jail said he intends to return to the state and pursue a military training center.
Michael Hilton, 55, is the lead figure of Santa Ana, Calif.-based American Police Force. The company struck a deal last month with unwitting officials in rural Hardin, Mont. to take over its never-used, 464-bed jail.
In his first interviews since the jail deal’s collapse, an unapologetic Hilton told The Associated Press that his intentions were honest but his “tainted” name and a business partner who turned against him helped sink the deal.
“What happened in my past, I admit it. I’m not proud nor ashamed,” he said, adding that “there was nothing malicious” in his jail proposal.
Hilton’s run-ins with authorities stretch back more than two decades, to a 1988 arrest for credit card fraud. He spent three years in prison in California in the 1990s and has outstanding civil judgments against him totaling more than $1.1 million.
But he said his intentions in Hardin had been sincere and that he “stood my ground” when his background caught up to him.
The Montana jail plans unraveled after media revelations about Hilton’s criminal past sparked an investigation by Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock. Hardin had been desperate to fill its jail after it sat empty for two years. Officials with the city’s economic development agency signed a deal with Hilton without a thorough background check.
The deal was never ratified by US Bank, the trustee on $27 million in bonds used to build the jail.
Hilton now claims to have an agreement to lease 1,200 acres in Big Horn County for a tactical military training ground. He says he will be a “consultant” on the project because his investors no longer want him at the forefront. “We’re going to built that. It’s not an empty promise,” he said.
The lease agreement for the supposed training center was said to be with a prominent Hardin businessman and rancher.
Details offered by Hilton could not be immediately confirmed, but there were strongly expressed doubts.
“(Hilton) just goes onto the next plan, then the next plan, then the next,” said Maziar Mafi, a Santa Ana, Calif. trial attorney. “He never stops because the minute he stops, nobody’s going to believe.”
Mafi invested $35,000 in the jail plan and helped craft the contract between Hardin and American Police Force before cutting his ties to the project.
Hilton says Mafi undermined the jail deal by failing to file the necessary paperwork to incorporate American Police Force in Montana. Mafi said he didn’t do so because Hilton had asked that his name be left off the documents, raising suspicion for the attorney.
No criminal charges have been filed over the scuttled jail deal, although state and federal authorities say they are monitoring the situation.
The executive director of the city agency that owns the jail, Greg Smith with the Two Rivers Authority, resigned last week for undisclosed reasons.
“I never asked for any bribes, nor did I bribe anybody,” Hilton said.
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There are a lot of us Montanan’s that will oppose any private military training center like the one Hilton wants. Hilton is finished in Montana. We do not want him, nor do we appreciate his dragging the good name of our state through the mud. Hilton needs to stay in the land of the fruits and nuts because he so obviously fits in there.
Why would anyone in their right mind want training from someone proven to be unethical with a history of behavior that indicates he thinks he’s above the law? Unless of course that someone was just like the teacher. There are plenty of decent and highly competant individuals in Montana worthy of learning from and already occupying our local law enforcement community…There is no need for the likes of Hilton & Company here…yes let him stay somewhere the other side of the border. Don’t care where…just not here. There should be at least one state in the union which stands for honor, civility, liberty, and virtue…let that state be known as Montana.
Speaking of bad pennies…
such a pity…I thought Montanan’s would be up in arms about this…where have all the men gone…
The threat to the people of Montana is not just from one conman with a criminal record that caught up with him. ‘Captain’ Hilton had a secret parent company/financial backers that neither Becky Shay or Hilton would reveal. Why didn’t the Hardin officials do a background check? Why didn’t they demand to know the secret financial backer they were dealing with?
The problem is not the easily replaced frontman Hilton but the hidden partner who will just be more careful next time than to hire someone with a criminal past. Montanans should just say no loud and clear. No secret partners, no foreign mafiya moneymen.
Sami
Your post is worrisome. There are dark forces trying to take this nation down a road we won’t recognize. It sounds like the global elite and their wicked plans. God Help us all.
You know that it is a small percentage right now and hopefully growing that will be on the side of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. It will be like our founding fathers opposing the British all over again! The 2nd Revolutionary War is about to begin. All it will take is a false flag event or financial colapse or something else that will force martial law upon us. When it happens, it will be the bloodiest War to ever be fought on this Earth. The American Patriot will not give up til dead and the brain dead globalist army will fight like a dumb animal til dead. Unfortuantely, most of those brain dead globalist soldiers will be former US citizens. The day they shoot at their first Patriot defending the US Constitution makes them enemy of the United States Of America. As soon as the first soldier shoots at a Patriot defending the US Constitution, Every officer and government official supporting that shot is enemy of the United States of America. They may have already shot that first shot or supported that first shot and they may already be guilty of treason. When that war starts, then it will be official, the now US Government will no longer be the US Government. They will be the Globalist Government and the real US Government will be those defending the US Constitution. It will not only be a Revolutionary War but also a Civil War all in one. Every US Citizen right now needs to make a decision. Are you a US Citizen or a Global Citizen of the United Nations? You need to pick a side, for there will be no in between.
we waite, we watch, we stand at the ready. Those of us in the belly of the devil (chicago) will looked to you for leadership!
Could Hilton’s idea of a military training center have anything to do with what I found tonight on the web? Our Presidsent has just signed a new DO to form a Council of Govenors. It will join our military with the US Marshall Service. First time I have heard of it. Geez, this stuff scares me to death. The Rand Corp has done a study and tells the Army that it is time to form a “Special Police Force” and they believe it will work best organized under our US Marshalls.
There is an article you can find at:
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/01/rand-corp-tells-us-army-its-time-for.html?