Felon to run prison

Bohica22 sends us a link from Montana about a town that was so eager to get their $27 million jail operating that they hired the first clown that applied for the job. Not surprisingly, they hired a crook who might be a phony vet;

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.

It sounds like a thousand westerns I’ve seen with a bit of “The Music Man” tossed in to the script. There’s no way this could go wrong – who knows how to run a prison better than a felon?

Hilton, 55, uses the title “captain” when introducing himself and on his business cards. But he acknowledged it was not a military rank.

He said he is naturalized U.S. citizen and native of Montenegro. Aliases for Hilton that appear in court documents include Miodrag Dokovich, Michael Hamilton, Hristian Djokich and Michael Djokovich.

That’s funny, I use the title “superman” when introducing myself, but I don’t want people to think that I can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

Beginning in 1993, Hilton spent six years in prison in California on a dozen counts of grand theft and other charges including illegal diversion of construction funds.

And they’re still considering letting him run their prison. Nothing could wrong with that.

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