Steve Miller, Stephen Miller, ChemNutra, Brothels
Las Vegas' no-name houses of ill repute
By Judi McLeod
Friday, April 27, 2007
My colleague Steve Miller--Steve Miller, the columnist not Stephen S. Miller, the tainted pet food wheat gluten supplier--had good reason to ask me to point out in one of my columns that he's not the guy who's a key player in the current tainted pet food scare. Nor does he want anyone to think that he's related in any way to "that other guy".
"Our names are the same. We both call Las Vegas home. People have called me looking for him, but the similarities stop right there."
So Steve Miller, the Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist, reminded me the other day on the telephone.
When ChemNutra's somewhat elusive Stephen S. Miller was introduced as plain "Steve" at a congressional committee investigating food safety on Tuesday, the CFP Steve Miller got a little worried.
CFP's Steve Miller writes internationally syndicated columns on organized crime and political corruption for Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com.
Thousands of angry pet owners are looking for "the other one's" hide, and that's worse than the mafia to his unwitting namesake.
Miller, the columnist understands the wrath of the posse after Stephen S. as a worried pet owner himself.
"Since this whole thing started, my dog and cat have become ill after eating processed pet food," the spunky columnist said. "They're OK now, but I had to start feeding them people food until Steve Miller and the others responsible are called to task."
Steve Miller, the columnist already has his hands full going after the likes of Crazy Horse Too owner Rick Rizzolo and people and companies affiliated with him who have contributed more than $135,000 to local political campaigns in the past decade, including $40,000 to Mayor Oscar Goodman.
But ChemNutra's Stephen S. Miller is now right up there on his radar screen with the mob because of the ongoing worry about his pets.
"Why not make Steve Miller eat his own dog food! That might hasten the end of this horrible problem," Steve Miller the mob buster said.
"And where is the FDA?"
The FDA, Steve, is on its way to China which today banned the melamine making our pets sick, even though it's a little like sending the Keystone Cops to the scene of a crime a year after the main event.
CFP's Steve Miller would be happy to know that the San Francisco Chronicle reworked his motto, "What happens in Vegas doesn't necessarily stay in Vegas after all" in a story lead yesterday.
The Chronicle story was about how San Mateo County Sheriff Greg Munks and his undersheriff were swept up in a Las Vegas prostitution sting over the weekend while at a massage parlor suspected of being a brothel.
"Munks called the incident a "personal embarrassment" and apologized to sheriff's officials, the county and his family for his "lack of personal judgment". He denied any wrongdoing, however, as did Undersheriff Carlos Bolanos. (San Francisco Chronicle April 25, 2007).
"Munks, who was sworn in as sheriff in January, was in the massage parlor at about 9:30 p.m., Saturday, and Bolanos was somewhere on the property when authorities raided the establishment, which was run out of a private home that had no name and no signage, Las Vegas police Lt. Dave Logue said.
Munks said Bolanos was outside when the raid took place.
"The massage parlor was in a residential area about 2 miles off the Las Vegas strip, Logue said. It was one of eight alleged brothels being run from houses and apartments that police raided Saturday night as part of "Operation Dollhouse", a sting aimed at prostitution and human trafficking with suspected links to Asia, Las Vegas authorities said."
What is it about Las Vegas-based companies that run business minus signage on their doors?
It's doubtful the sheriff and his undersheriff would have entered an alleged brothel if the ladies of the night had only hung out their sign there.
ChemNutra, the company at the heart of the tainted pet food story, had no sign on its door when reporters went looking for CEO Stephen S. Miller.
We can understand why a brothel wouldn't want a sign on the door.
We don't know why ChemNutra operates its Las Vegas operation without courtesy of signage.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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