Mystery Woman/Women

My children have a Hispanic friend whose family seems to struggle financially yet whose family members make lots of seemingly expensive trips, especially to Italy, Mexico (particularly Monterrey), and the Los Angeles area. The vast majority of these trips involve the friend's mother. At one point, my kids' friend said their mother was making so many trips to Italy that she was taking classes to learn to speak Italian.

For a long time, it's been well-known among local school children that I will give rides after school to kids who need them. Several years ago when I drove over to school to pick up my usual assortment of kids one day, this same Hispanic friend came up and asked if I'd give them a ride to meet their mother at a job because she'd called and said she was running late. I'd told them I'd be happy to do this.

My kids' friend said their mother was at "an important meeting at the city attorney's office that was still going on", and they asked to be dropped off there to wait for her to finish. I asked if they knew how late the meeting would go, pointing out that they were welcome to wait at our house instead where they could visit with my kids, have a snack, start their homework, or just hang out. The friend said they'd been told the meeting wouldn't last much longer and that they were expected there, so I headed over to the title company building that also serves as the city attorney's office.

On the way, I mentioned to my kids' friend that I'd thought their mother worked at one of the other schools, and I asked if she'd changed jobs. The student said no but that because their mother spoke both Spanish and English well, she sometimes took translating jobs on the side. They said there was "a very important woman from Mexico" who sometimes came into our town for big meetings that their mother was often asked to serve as a translator for. My children and I had no idea what their friend was talking about and were very curious, but their friend either didn't know any more about the meetings or was reluctant to discuss them further.

When we got to the city attorney's office, the mother of my children's friend was waiting out front. She said her meeting had ended, and she was just getting ready to go pick up her offspring, so I was relieved she hadn't left yet. As I was driving off, I was surprised to see a woman I knew well who lived at Stonewall, near the LBJ ranch, walking out of the same office and going over to her vehicle. I waved at her, and she waved back, but she seemed to be in a hurry. I wondered again who the mysterious woman from Mexico was and whether my friend had also attended the meeting with her or was there on separate business. I then filed the whole incident away in my mind as one more among countless strange local goings-on I'd probably always wonder about and then promptly forgot about it.

Then today the following article appeared in the San Antonio Express-News. Upon reading it, I was struck by the facts that I've run across the name Global Financial Services before and that the Mexican woman in the article has ties to businesses in Switzerland, California, and the Houston area, just as my ex-husband's family and some of their associates, like the "Mystery Man" I've blogged about before (see 12/26/09), do.

Now I'm curious to know if Ms. Gomez might possibly be the Mexican woman who came to our town for meetings at the city attorney's office. If she's not, I confess I'm still curious to know who the woman visiting here was. In any case, I'd really like to know what the meetings here were about, who else attended, and whether they're still taking place.



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Chronologic Order

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In an earlier post entitled "Guessing Games" (7/25/10), I mentioned what was going on at around the same time as the ads shown there. Now I'm posting a sampling of information and documentation presented in chronologic order that you can plug the ads into and also use to understand some of the events that led up to my hiring private investigator Ed Hodges at the end of June 2003.

As you look at these, keep in mind that we have two title companies here: one run by the city attorney, and the other run by a law partner of my ex-husband's divorce lawyer. You should also be aware that the county judge was a classmate of my former brother-in-law's and that the property to the south of mine consists of a very steep hill that is unsuitable for building on.

By the middle of June 2003, I had a tax appraisal protest hearing coming up and had been unable to force my ex-husband to provide me with the agricultural use documentation from past years I needed or to get him to remove his exotic animals from my property (which I'd been forced to feed because he wouldn't). There had also been numerous serious and frightening incidents that I haven't gone into much here. We'd had CONSTANT problems with people trespassing, partying, leaving trash and drug paraphernalia, etc. on my property, and the police wouldn't do anything--in fact, one of the people blatantly trespassing was the local police chief, my ex-husband's close friend. City employees had cleared out a house the city had bought that bordered both my property and the rent house where my ex-husband had been living and dumped a large amount of trash (including furniture and appliances) on my property; when I called the police, the responding officer just laughed and then started asking me over and over again about what I intended to do with my property. Late one night when I let my dog out, he scared off an athletic-looking Caucasion man who'd been tampering with our phone line at the point where it entered our house.

It was at this point that I discussed my situation with a man in my Bible study class at church who was ex-military and someome I considered a friend. He told me he sometimes worked as a private investigator for a man named Ed Hodges from Arlington, and he suggested I hire Ed to help me with some of my problems. I told him to have Hodges call me, we talked on the phone, and I decided to hire him.

Hodges helped me retain my ag. exemption, but he also immediately began trying to get me to sign a trust document that gave him full control of my property. When I refused to do this, he forged my name on the document he'd been trying to get me to sign. The county clerk's office then filed this document at the courthouse even though it wasn't properly notarized, and they faxed a copy of it to an unknown location.

If At First You Don't Succeed

When I was unable to get any information from the city on the easement taken from my property for the new road extension, I filed open records requests with both the city and the county--and received a receipt for some fencing.

The City Also Said

...Things that weren't true. This is a copy of an email to me from the local city attorney that I found when I came back from a week-long trip. It was well-known around our small town that one of my children had been accepted to a prestigious summer program in another state and that I had gone there to get them checked in and settled and also have a short vacation with my other kids, a friend, and one of her children. The city attorney, a close associate of my ex-husband (who had our trip information) and his family, had to have known we were gone and for how long.

Also, the attorney's statement about the surveyor was not correct. The person mentioned is actually the long-time official County Surveyor (an elected position).

Important notes: This city attorney, who has also served for many years, specializes in real estate and has one of the two title companies in town. The other local title company is headed by the law partner of my ex-husband's divorce lawyer. (The father and brother of my ex-husband's divorce lawyer are major real estate brokers in town. Her husband is another law partner in their firm and is also one of our JP's.)

The City Said

...Nothing. I never received any further response from anyone with regard to this request.