Joe Miller’s Caswell Lake-area cabin

Joe Miller has already admitted he’s a liar. Joe Miller has also shown himself to be anti-First Amendment, relying on unlicensed militia thugs for “security”. Nor does he mind bowling over 8-year-old children to make a quick getaway to avoid the press… when he’s not barring the press completely, that is.

He’s full of surprises, isn’t he? Very unpleasant ones.

Why, what’s this? Another twist to his already twisted antics:

For the past 14 years, U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miler has owned or controlled 40 acres with a two-story house near Willow, but he does not report it in his Senate financial disclosure statements.

The deed for the property is recorded in the name of something called “The Wilmington Trust,” but the woman named as the trustee says she had no idea of the exact nature of her legal connections and obligations to the property. Whether a trust actually exists is unclear.

The land and cabin are currently valued by the Matanuska Susitna Borough at $57,500, though Miller once tried to sell the property for significantly more. And though not reported on his Senate disclosure forms, the property has in the past been reported by Miller in state financial disclosure records. [...]

Miller should have reported it on his Senate filings. [...]

Repeated efforts on the part of Dispatch to get the Miller campaign to explain the history and status of the Willow land, along with why it wasn’t disclosed on federal forms, proved futile. Campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto, whose telephone voicemail suggests that a “quick way to reach me” is e-mail, did not respond to an e-mail asking, among other questions, whether there really is a Wilmington Trust. DeSoto did, however, respond to some other emails sent about the same time.

I’m sure that avoiding the reporter was just an oversight.

Just kidding.

H/t: Knishette