I’ve had similar results in my younger years making friends with some of Holder’s people.
They were good people until you had three or more with you, then it was them against you and they would take you for all they could. Funny thing is that they would always act like it was nothing when they came around you a day or so later. Like it was expected that you think nothing of being treated like crap.
That’s why I’ve developed an attitude that I would rather not have them as friends in my older years. Not worth the risk.
I had a friend whose parents retired to Guadalajara. A friend of theirs hired a lawyer to make sure all the paperwork was done correctly to buy a very nice hacienda. After a couple of years a judge who had been bribed by some shyster lawyer who found an “irregularity” and seized the hacienda. The retired Yanquis were SOL. The consulate could do nothing to help them. All that said, I liked Guadalajara. It’s a real old Wild West cowboy town. After the kidnapping/torture/murder of “Kiki” Camarena, a DEA agent assigned to the consulate while out on morning jogs, I maintained heightened situational awareness.