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Bad, Bad Day for Hardin, Montana

Bad, <em>Bad</em> Day for Hardin, Montana

Yesterday we told you about the creepily named American Police Force, the mysterious security company which had secured a ten year contract to run an unused but super-expensive prison in tiny Hardin, Montana but refused to say what they were going to do with it and proceeded to swagger around town like Solider of Fortune pin-ups.

There were conspiracy theories aplenty and a lot of legitimate suspicion that APF was a cover or proxy for some bigger and more well-known security outfit that didn’t want to reveal its name.

So who runs APF? Good news! A convicted thief and sometime real estate swindler with about a dozen aliases from Orange County, California.

Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall is editor and publisher of TalkingPointsMemo.com.

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