You raise some interesting questions and they will need answered, but the article excerpted below ffrom the Montana paper-Linked above states the following and helps explain the Crooks MO.
“But public documents and interviews with Hilton’s associates and legal adversaries offer a different picture, that of a convicted felon with a number of aliases, a string of legal judgments against him, two bankruptcies and a decades-long reputation for deals gone bad.
American Police Force is the company Hilton formed in March to take over the Hardin jail.
“Such schemes you cannot believe,” said Joseph Carella, an Orange County, Calif. doctor and co-defendant with Hilton in a real estate fraud case that resulted in a civil judgment against Hilton and several others.
“The guy’s brilliant. If he had been able to do honest work, he probably would have been a gazillionaire,” Carella said.”
Billings Gazette article.
“The guys brilliant. If he had been able to do honest work, he probably would have been a gazillionaire.”
Uh huh, and if he was so brilliant, why did he keep getting caught?
I ain’t buying it. WHERE did the money come from and WHO is backing this?
“American Police Force is the company Hilton formed in March to take over the Hardin jail.”
Did you read ANY of my previous posts? It isn’t just APF. And he is NOT the guy who thought this up. He is a front guy. A bull in a china shop. LOTS of unanswered questions and the article you referenced has no answers.