6 Thursday. February 27, 1997 Pahrump Valley Gazette
Chile Too Hot for Joe
There's no comfort for Conforte
Chile threatens to deport brothel boss
The government of Chile wants to detain northern Nevada's
former brothel boss Joe Conforte and then deport him as an
'undesirable alien." The folks held hostage at the Japanese
ambassador's compound, should have had it so good.
In documents filed last week with the U.S. District Court in
Reno, the feds say their evidence suggests the Mustang
Ranch owner fled to Chile from Brazil, where he is now
getting
shoui-
that
South
gov-
Ac-
their
type
Chile -
else, in-
gringo
- is go-
them
with
Hey,
how
feel.
there,
the cold
der from
unstable
American
ernment.
cording to
dictatorial-
powers,
and nobody
cluding a
government
ing to tell
what to do
Conforte.
Joe. Know
you must
I've been
over the
years, more so in the old days, there were more than a few
members of the old Tonopah Mafia, including a few south
county sympathizers, who would have liked to send me to the
moon with a one-way ticket.
Hard as Phil and his cozy cohorts tried, they couldn't
reserve a seat - hot or cold - for me. Most of them are long
gone, although we still have a couple of high-paid hangers on
to get rid of before they spoil the barrel of the good decent
folks in county government.
Interestingly, the documents were filed two days after Joe's
stateside mouthpiece's said he would be willing to return
from his self-imposed exile to face federal wire and bank-
ruptcy fraud charges if guaranteed bail by the feds.
Careful Joey, as you should know from their past actions,
these guys like to play hard ball, and they make up their own
rules as they go along. No way anybody can win against those
kind of stacked decks.
a handpicked
iust outside Reno.
BRADSHAW LEARNS TO READ
It should come as some small degree of comfort to the good citizens of
Nye County - and there's a lot more of them around the county, both
north and south, than some people currently in positions of political
power may think.
Perhaps, I'm giving my adversaries more credit than they deserve, but
then, I'd rather overestimate the opposition than underestimate them.
I've found, over the years, that it works better for me that way.
Maybe I owe our new editor an apology, that revelation about our
appointed county mangler (that shoe certainly fits under the fiscal mess
he's gotten us into and his real first name ain't even OUie, it's Leslie or
should I say Rachel for fear of being accused of gender discrimination -
our $100,000 @ Gold Dust Twins are a matched set, aren't they ?) In
making that astounding revelation, I really should be apologizing to the
new editor of the newspaper for scooping her out of a front page headline.
(Sorry about that, C.J.)
I got some pretty good sources throughout the Kingdom, which I, of
course, would never reveal. But this one I learned from reading today's
edition of the big city paper, which now that he's mastered the art of
reading, the Bradshaw's pride and joy apparently has discovered some
new avenues of communication.
Cameron's crafty choices for our resident Mr. and Ms. Bumbles in the
Tonopah Taj Mahal, have learned there are newspapers other than the
Pahrump Gazette that people read, and which will actually dare to print
the truth and not just parrot the party line as it is spoon fed to them.
According to the R-J, Bradshaw actually admitted that Nye County's
budget outlook is "grim" Give the kid a chance, he'll learn to deal with
more than four-letter words and could work his way up to five and
substitute broke for grim.
Now that we've got a new plain-speaking chairman sitting in the
commissioners' catbird seat, he will learn some cow-county skills from
Dick Carver who thinks his head wrangler is being "optimistic," to be
unusually polite.
Bradshaw forecasts static revenues to finance the county's budget of
about $16 million that he sail would probably have to be cut by at least
$2.8 mil. to get through the year and keep in balance. On the other hand,
Carver, the veteran commissioner from Smoky Valley, said his "gut
feeling" was double that, $5.6 million.
Bumbles, as some of us have taken to calling him, went on to say salary
cuts of 5 percent to 10 percent the commissioners made last year in an
attempt to keep the budget balanced are scheduled to be restored at the
end of the current Fiscal Year, and suspended cost of living allowances
to employees also are scheduled to be restored.
When questioned by reporters, he reluctantly conceded that his
estimates did not include cost overruns at the plagued Nye Regional
Medical Center in Tonopah.
Whether you L.J € n
hate him or love
him, he won't let
you ignore him!
bY Joe Richards Ta
fromthe F e
Kingdom of Nye
pad, claimed that the self-
Ranch. They
seek some $16 unpaid taxes and penalties, dating back for
992.
contends he
