Hardin Jail

Bureau Of Prisons Shoots Down AP Report On Hardin As Gitmo Site

Justin Elliott | November 16, 2009, 12:20PM

Two Rivers Detention Center

The Bureau of Prisons is not looking at the empty jail in Hardin, Montana -- which was recently at the center of the American Police Force con -- as a potential site for Guantanamo inmates, contrary to an AP report today, a spokesperson for the bureau tells TPMmuckraker.

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Con Man

Hilton: I'm Too Sick To Forfeit Self-Portrait For Auction

Justin Elliott | November 3, 2009, 9:40AM

Michael Hilton

The Billings Gazette in Montana has the latest from now-admitted conman Michael Hilton: asked to hand over four works of art to help pay a $700,000 judgment in a California real estate fraud case, Hilton claimed he had the flu and couldn't make it.

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Michael Hilton

Hilton Admits: I'm Broke And Had No Corporate Backing for Jail Bid

Zachary Roth | November 2, 2009, 9:57AM

Michael Hilton

"I'm out of the game. I'm done," Michael Hilton has told the Associated Press in a phone interview.

The California grifter had just testified in court that he's broke, is struggling to pay rent on his apartment, and recently borrowed money from his girlfriend. And he appeared to come close, perhaps for the first time, to admitting that he had deceived local officials in Montana about his effort to take control of an empty jail.

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