"Well, Nitpiker, I appreciate your communication and facts, however...

"Nope, those were different scammers who persuaded the city of Hardin to build the jail. The APF con man came in after the jail was built and empty, and the townsfolk desperate to fill it."

I think the whole scam can be shown to be one coordinated entity, even though there were different scammers pushing different parts of the scam. Also, we need to name those "different scammers" in each part of the one big scam. And I think without too much difficulty, if Montana had a real Attorney Generral, relationships could be found pre-existing before the local scamsters launched their "if you build it they will come" scam.

This woman who is running for mayor or whatever and her spouse headed up, I think, some kind of "economic development" corporation which corporation was probably needed to be able to charge the economic development sales tax on the residents to pay for the building of the jail, several million in the taxpayers dollars used here.

I do not think those local economic development scamsters could have sold their scam had they not been able to say their were entities that would come in on a "turn key" basis and just take over full, experienced running of the jail. Those local scamsters had people speaking to the city council telling them how easy it would be to get prisoners from several different sources.

I have experience as a state of Texas tax policy administrator and I observed how crooked was the "economic development" option of cities to charge an extra sales tax to fund various projects that promised many jobs and building up of the local economy, when in fact, it was a bunch of real estate racketeers in cahoots with the mayor and city council.

I just am saying that there are unscrupulous people who take advantage of the dire economic straights many small cities find themselves in, and the people are gullable or sucked in to the same greedy mindset of the scamters. Also, the average middle class, law abiding citizens rarely know what is going on and how and when to launch a counter offensive.