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Yellowstone Club Founder Blixseth Sent Back to Montana Jail

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The bankrupt founder of the private Yellowstone Club in Montana whose members have included Microsoft Corp.’s Bill Gates was jailed for a second time after failing to account for proceeds from a resort in Mexico that he sold in violation of a court order, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. Timothy Blixseth was ordered by U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon in Butte, Mont., to be taken into custody yesterday and held until he provides a full of accounting of the $13.8 million he received for the Tamarindo resort. Blixseth was briefly jailed by the judge in December after he was found in contempt in February 2014 for disobeying a bankruptcy court. Blixseth became a billionaire after founding the Yellowstone Club as a private ski and golf resort and signing up wealthy corporate leaders including Gates.