American Police Force Says Job Fair Delayed as Hardin Jail Takeover in Limbo

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Oct 8, 2009 at 10:03 AM MDT

Story Updated: Oct 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM MDT

BILLINGS, Mont. - A spokeswoman for a California company that had been negotiating to take over management of the Hardin jail says a two-day job fair planned for next week has been delayed.

Becky Shay says it makes no sense for American Police Force to hold the event with the jail takeover in limbo.

The 464-bed jail was built as an economic development project, but has not been used since its 2007 completion.

The Two Rivers Authority, the economic development agency that built the jail, initially embraced American Police Force as a savior for the project.

However, the jail takeover was put on hold by Hardin officials this week following revelations that the lead figure of American Police Force, Michael Hilton, has an extensive history of fraud in Southern California. His convictions include two grand theft cases and he has civil judgments totaling more than $1.1 million.

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chris killz blog said on Monday, Oct 12 at 11:50 PM

Al Peterson suddenly shut up and changed his tune pretty quick. He was 100% sure who the parent company was up until a couple days ago. If this isn't Obama's UNCIVPOL Global Police, i'll eat my hat. All the signs point to this. How else are they going to bring in a dictatorship unless they have a corporate army full of foreigners who answers only to the United Nations?

Joe said on Monday, Oct 12 at 2:36 PM

Hey CHUCK, this story is really about people like you! who are dumb and asleep! 911 was an inside job and you should know it by now. Instead you can go watch some more American Idol. This was an attempt by our government to beta test taking over a town. And the dum dums like you will obviously fall for it for a few bucks. Glad we helped uncover this for you, too bad we will never find out who paid for the mercedes. Here's a hint: your tax dollars

Marina Babe said on Saturday, Oct 10 at 8:23 PM

It's still unclear where Hilton got his money for Mercedes, plane fares, Becky's salaries, etc. He has a court date about that.

Chuck said on Saturday, Oct 10 at 3:16 PM

Funny how the Alex Jones crowd really wanted this to be abut Obama and the Police State, and are now sorely disappointed to discover it was just run-of-the-mill corruption.

JHJ said on Friday, Oct 9 at 9:18 AM

Are we not missing the whole point? We are building jails to house you and me, the citizens of this country. In order to fill them we need more lawbreakers, that in turn must be paid for by you and the taxpayer... What is wrong with the big picture...

urineameirca said on Friday, Oct 9 at 7:22 AM

I heard the Hells Angels are interested in turning the facility into a meth lab.

Johnny Smoke said on Friday, Oct 9 at 1:49 AM

Maybe he was going to use the jail as a covert marijuanna grow operation? Or, maybe they were going to use it as headquarters for an internet phishing operation?

Disgusted with it all... said on Thursday, Oct 8 at 2:05 PM

Perhaps Two Rivers should have gotten contracts for convicts BEFORE it built the jail. But it didn't and now if finds itself in the unenviable position of being DESPERATE! Desperation is blind, not love!

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