Just when you thought there was no more room in Joe Miller's closet for any more skeletons, here comes another one! And hey, this one brought a "mystery hideaway" with him!

So hey, you know how you are supposed to claim ALL of your property and assets on the Senate financial disclosure statements when you decide to run for the Senate?  Yeah? Well guess who didn't do that?

Apparently Joe "Quit staring at my beard, it is the best I can do!" Miller owns a two story house on 40 acres of land near Willow.  But don't worry, no harm done because the land is not EXACTLY in his name.  Can you say "legal loophole?"

Courtesy of the Alaska Dispatch:

The land was purchased in 1996. Former owner Arnie Hcrnir said he gave in to a low-ball offer from Miller because he really needed to sell. Hcrnir didn't say how much Miller paid, but land in the Willow area was going cheap at the time.

Miller had been working for a year or so as an attorney at an Anchorage law firm, although in 1995 he'd signed a sworn statement that he was indigent.That claim allowed him to save $50 on a state hunting and fishing license; he got a license reserved for the poor for only $5.

Before purchasing the cabin, he and his wife, Kathleen, began work on a costly addition to their Anchorage home that more than doubled the assessed value of what had been a $93,100 house. And shortly after that, the Millers went shopping for their out-of-town hideaway.

In the summer of 1996, Miller found Hrncir who'd built a solid cabin back in the woods a couple miles off the George Parks Highway in the area of Caswell Lakes. Hrncir did not remember Miller by name when contacted by the Alaska Dispatch earlier this month, but he did well recall selling the property to a "young Anchorage lawyer." Hrncir said he met the attorney in an Anchorage Denny's Restaurant -- Miller was working as a lawyer in the city at the time -- to sign the papers closing the deal.
But Miller's name does not appear on the deed registered with the state.

On paper, the land Hrncir sold to Miller is in the name of "Bobbi Reed,'' trustee for The Wilmington Trust. Reed is an old friend of Miller's wife, Kathleen.

Reed lives in Anchorage, but tax statements are sent to her at an address in Fairbanks. The address is the post office box for the Law Offices of Joseph W. Miller.

Okay so the property is in a trust?  And who are the beneficiaries?

When he took a job as a state magistrate in the late 1990s, he filed an Alaska Public Offices Commission report that listed the owners of the property as three of his children and their interest in the property as a "trust.''

Oh!  So the trust names the Miller children as the owners of the property and this nice lady, Bobbi Reed, manages the trust for the kids.  Well that is very kind of her.

Reed said she knows nothing about a trust even though she is named as trustee.

Wait, what?

Asked where The Wilmington Trust was registered, Reed said, "I don't have a clue.''

Now let me get this straight, there is a trust set up for the kids, and this lady is named as trustee, but she know NOTHING about any trust? Well you all know what we are about to learn next don't you?

Alaska Dispatch could find no record of The Wilmington Trust..

Go ahead, raise your hand if you saw THAT coming! Alright, alright put your hands down, and stop looking so smug!

Okay you saw THAT coming, but did you see THIS coming?

The story Hrncir tells about the land deal with Miller doesn't exactly paint a flattering picture of the candidate. The year was 1996, Hrncir said, and the economy in the area just north of Willow -- once the site of a proposed new state capital -- was going in the tank. Everyone was broke and getting out or already gone.

Hcrnir finally decided to put the place up for sale in an Anchorage newspaper. Not long after, the Anchorage attorney, his wife and several of their kids came by. "He knew I wanted to sell bad,'' Hcrnir said. "He made me one of those 'offer's good only until the sun goes down' deals.'"

Hcrnir didn't really want to sell for the cut-rate price being offered, but he felt that he had to. And he perfectly understood the low-ball offer; business is business.

What followed wasn't, at least not by Alaska standards. The deal was made in Willow, Hcrnir said, but he met Miller in Anchorage at the Denny's on Dimond Boulevard to sign the papers to close the sale. Up to that point, Hcrnir said, he'd always found the Anchorage lawyer a friendly guy. That changed the second the legal documents were inked.

Hcrnir told Miller he planned to go back to Caswell to get the last of the family's stuff out of the cabin, including the generator Hcrnir had said all along he planned to take with him. Miller told Hrncir that he was to stay off the property.

"He schemed me out of that,'' Hcrnir said. "He pulled out a paper and said it said (sold) 'where is, as is.' Legally he was right, (but) he went from a friend to a legal counsel in a minute.''

And that my fellow Alaskans is the guy who wants us to trust him to represent the people of our fair state.

Personally I would not trust this son-of-a-bitch as far as I could throw him. (Gee I wonder how far that would be?)

Believe it or not, there is even MORE truly disgusting things revealed about Joe Miller and his "mystery hideaway" in the Alaska Dispatch article.  If you think you can handle any more of Miller's less than ethical business dealings feel free to read more. Me, I think I need to take a shower.