Even *'s bootmaker has gone to jail

[Kadie]

Bootmaker to Bush and Fox jailed in US
By LISA J. ADAMS, Associated Press Writer
Fri Sep 21, 3:05 PM ET


GUANAJUATO, Mexico - A bootmaker to world leaders, including President Bush and Vicente Fox, is in a Colorado jail, charged with money laundering and conspiring to illegally smuggle the skins of protected animals into the United States to provide exotic footwear for high-end clients.

The arrest of Martin Villegas — and Mexico's raid of a warehouse filled with hundreds of cowboy boots and belts made from endangered species — has raised questions about how much Fox knew of the scheme and whether the former Mexican president purchased illegal boots himself.

Before Fox left office in December, Villegas created a special brand of cowboy boot named after him, which was manufactured in Mexico's shoemaking capital, Leon, in Fox's home state of Guanajuato.

The Mexican bootmaker also produced footwear for Fox's bodyguards, Cabinet members, relatives and friends — including Bush, a fellow lover of ranchwear who accepted a pair of ostrich-skin cowboy boots as a gift during a visit to Fox's ranch in 2001.

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[Ian David]

1. Is this the guy who made the cowboy boot for Bush on display at Disney's Hall of Presidents? n/t

[Booster]

2. My God, that's just plain rich. LOL

[aquart]

3. Is this the ass who put the presidential seal on Bush's boots?

Since I couldn't put him in jail for that, let me say I'm delighted he's going down for this.

[TomInTib]

8. He makes great boots.

Actually, he just oversees the craftsmen, the real bootmakers.

I have a pair of Villegas' Orange Caiman.

But when he did the Seal boots, I cancelled an order that I had placed. He was nice enough to return my deposit (work on the boots had not been started).

But that was back when I had money.

Hey, would you like to but a pair of smokin' hot Orange Caiman boots, size 10 1/2, narrow? My initials are inlaid in the top of the right boot.

[shaniqua6392]

4. Everything and everyone he touches.....

turns to shit.

[aquart]

12. Yep. Whole dang country would be fertilizer....

Except for the thoughtfulness of those free speech zones.

[pinto]

5. Reality grows more surreal in all things Bush.

[Ian David]

6. George W. Bush hasn't been able to get that same, special shoe leather...

"George W. Bush hasn't been able to get that same, special shoe leather since Grampa Prescott's connection to Hitler dried-up. Until he met THIS guy."





Some people say.

[Nitrogenica]

7. K&R, Heres the boots in pics.

The man-child loves his Cowboy Boots

[CatWoman]

10. egads!!

give that mother fucker life!!

[Kadie]

11. ACK!!!

:puke:

[Swamp Rat]

9. How about some boots made from the hide of Martin Villegas?

:D