“American Police Force” Santa Ana Office Headed By Con Artist With Long Criminal History
September 30, 2009 by supermario
Filed under US News
AMERICAN POLICE FARCE
The so-called ‘captain’ that answers the phones at ‘American Police Force’s’ single-suite unit in Santa Ana, California, who calls himself Michael Hilton has used other aliases, including Miodrag Dokovich, Michael Hamilton, Hristian Djokich and Michael Djokovich. He also has a long criminal record that involves fraud, and a dozen counts of grand theft.
We congratulate writers Matthew Brown, Amy Taxin, Greg Risling, and Barbara Sambriski for teaching the rest of the Mainstream Media reporters a good lesson of what investigative journalism should be.
fortmilltimes.com
BILLINGS, Mont. — Michael Hilton pitched himself to officials in Hardin, Mont. as a military veteran turned private sector entrepreneur, a California defense contractor with extensive government contracts who promised to turn the rural city’s empty jail into a cash cow.
Hardin’s leaders were desperate to fill the $27 million jail, which has sat empty since its 2007 completion.
So when Hilton came to town last week – wearing a military-style uniform and offering three Mercedes SUVs for use by local law enforcement – he was greeted with hugs by some grateful residents. The promise of more than 200 new jobs for a community struggling long before the recession hit had won them over.
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.
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