Thanks for the post. This is a very confused post, frankly.
I SUSPECT that someone may have put up some federal funding to bring these guys in there to run the jail, and then unload some Guantanamo prisoners. But that’s just speculation.
It does seem to be the case that the head of this outfit is a crook with a pretty long record. So, if Obama hoped this would solve his Guantanamo problem, he’ll likely have to back out, pretend it never happened, and look elsewhere.
I can’t think of any other explanation for how all that money, the expensive SUVs, etc., got into this. Meantime, I suppose they scrubbed the website because of the boss’s criminal record.
Their website wasn’t scrubbed. They did take down the addresses in DC and Santa Ana. The rest of it is as it was when I looked at it as soon as this story broke.
Other than that, it crashed due to heavy load. It was just one of Godaddy’s cheap hosting plans that crashes when there is any sort of heavy demand.
This looked like a scam for profit from the start. They were trying to take advantage of the people in Hardin. It looks like the one who will be really hurt is their ersatz PR agent, Becky Shay, who quit her job with the Billings Gazette for their $60,000 per year position in PR. Show up in flashy cars, offer jobs to their allies, then loot the place and disappear.
Hardin had offered the use of this prison for Gitmo detainees early this year. APF was incorporated shortly after they were turned down by the Feds. “Michael Hilton” must have figured out some sort of con to run on the people with the prison.