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Old 05-24-2010, 02:53 PM   #1
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my trip...

ok, so I saidI could reveal things when I came back from my trip... actually I think some of it I am going to have to keep quiet, but here goes...

my recently deceased father in law started living in Mexico 20 years ago. the first place he lived, he built a beautiful home in the country with local help, using local products. for whatever reason, about 5 years ago he decided that he wanted to buy a ranch, so he did... a fairly large one, about 10,000 acres. while he was looking for the right place, he met an American ex-pat (who shall be referred to as Bozo) who represented himself as a real estate agent, and actually handled the sale. shortly after the sale, my FIL got really sick and went back up to the states for treatment. to make a REALLY long story short, he ended up being hospitalized for about the next 9 months, after having died at least twice. gradually he recuperated and stayed in Missouri at my mother in law's, mother's house in Missouri. all the time he was recovering he corresonding with Bozo, giving him instructions on work to be done to restore the hacienda on the ranch, repair fences, etc. this was being overseen by an attorney and relative of his, that will be referred to as Bubba from here on out. eventually he improved enough to go back to Mexico and live in a rental while overseeing the construction work.

to make a REALLY long story short... after 3 years and about $350,000 US Dollars being spent in Mexico, there is nothing to show for it. when we went down there in December, we were really surprised at the lack of progress. after my FIL died, something that I had been told (several times) about Bozo started demanding attention in my brain. the statement was that he was working on obtaining his Mexican citizenship, hated the US and Americans. he also, theoretically owned and operated a successful safari business in Africa. I started doing some checking around, and found that going back to 1983, Bozo had a trail of default judgements against him for promising goods and services and not following through. the average judgement was for in excess of 50K. he's a con man. a REALLY GOOD con man.

I tracked him through several African countries (that he has been thrown out of), through California, and Florida. the Department of Justice has a file on him, as well as the Department of Fish and Wildlife. in one of the most stunnning cases against him, he abandoned a party of 6 people in a small African country, having not paid for their hunting permits, their camp fees, their return trips, let alone any lodging. he also had not paid their visas. they were literally about 6 hours away from being thrown in prison when they managed to get funds wired to them to be able to get out of the country.

I presented all of this information to Bubba. he insists that I have to PROVE beyond a shadow of doubt!!!! that he stold money from my FIL. this means I have to go back to Mexico and dig up information on Bozo. a country where people dissappear and are murdered on a regular basis. I'm pretty pissed off at Bubba right now
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