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Re: belaire golf resort and spa (by Jim C.):

I am one of the original developers/investors of building the Belaire, not a timeshare owner. I can tell you for a fact that Antonio and his crew are incredible sociopaths. Let's just say that life is definitely stranger than fiction in their world. Think Sopranos on steroids!! I won't get into details but let your imagination run wicked and the add 110%. I wish you all the best but it won't be easy. There are reasons he gets away with it. The government is in his back pocket. And the $750,000 watch is most likely a fake. All of them were years ago but he has made many millions in that time so who knows. Good luck to all. Oh, and doubt Tony ever had any intentions of actually building the place, it's just a front for generating cash. There was actually never any plumbing in the model units.

carolynt40 wrote:

walacej wrote:

I received a rather strange phone call about a week ago. It was from a man with a rather heavy accent. He said that he wanted my email address. He told me that Antonio was in jail and that funds had been obtained from him and the judge will be passing them out when the judge receives all the paperwork. The gentleman that I spoke to told me that he was a student soon to be attorney. I told him that I would not be sending any money ever. He told me that it was fine. I asked how he found out my name, but he told me that it is public record. I did give him my email address but have heard nothing. Has this happened to anyone else?

We also received at this point at least 21 phone calls from Thomas Vasquez a volunteer/legal assistant with the law firm "Mexican Federal Fraud Investigation Unit of Mexico"-based in Guadalajara. the attorney is Saul Fernandez Quintero. Thomas said that we do not have to pay any money upfront. When we sent our contracts and copies of our payments whether credit card or check we would be given a case number. A judge would review our case, tell us the amount of money we would receive and then we would be told what the commission/payment would be. I'm not sure whether he asked for copies all our passports or not. He really is bugging us! Believe me not a dime will be sent on till we received the cash in our hands! but if I'm to believe what I've been reading on these 35 pages in red week they are going to want payment before we receive payment and they will not take it out of the proceeds. I have rec'd paper work from from Larken & Larken and tel calls from other attys wanting to get our $s back by the judge. We were among the first people in January of 2007 to fall under the spell of Antonio, we bought a one-bedroom and a three-bedroom-we like the idea of being able to use weeks from the back end of the 100 years to give to our four children for their vacations, plus there were no maintenance fees or dining requirements!!!! Antonio took our timeshares in Bermuda and Grand Mayan as a deposit. and of course took our money! We have met Sergio, Mario, Marce, Alex and talked with Alan Dale, Philip Green, Michael Hightower, Michael Logan. I even have Antonio's cell phone number( which of course now probably has been changed} He wined us and dined us cuz we introduced him to friends and family who also "invested". I guess I should have seen the handwriting on the wall when my husband told me that Antonio was wearing a $750,000 watch. To this day I still think that Bellair was legitimate-but things began to truly fall apart when Antonio ran out of funds when he had to go so deep to reach bedrock to construct the first building. My sister who also "invested" went this November(2013) to meet with Michael Logan in Punta Mita. She almost fell over when Antonio came out of an office to meet her. He had a contract ready for her to sign!!!!!!! She saw the article in the newspaper about him being arrested and mentioned it to him and he said "Isn't is too bad?" I guess we'll never see our money and he'll never get put in jail.