One of Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson’s top organizers in Nevada resigned yesterday after the campaign learned he had worked for a brothel.

Kristian Forland, the campaign’s eastern Nevada field director, was investigated by police after women working at Mona’s Ranch, a brothel, complained he was shortchanging them on their pay.

An investigator described Forland as “at best a manager of the property,” according to a June 2006 police report obtained by the AP.

“I oversaw the bookkeeping only,” Forland said. “I never handled cash, I didn’t deal with the girls per se.”