Lisa Hepfner‏
@HefCHCHNews
A group Schlatman called "the Spaniards" were workers for #Millard who specialized in construction. They included a few men with Spanish-sounding names, Schlatman says, like Javier Villada.
Millard always prioritized jobs for Schlatman, he agrees.
Millard says there were eight tractor trailers moving stuff from the old hangar to the new hangar. Schlatman identifies himself in one of the photos. "That would be me."
Another picture shows Mark #Smich standing beside a GMC boom truck. #Smich is holding a power washer. "It appears he's washing the boom truck." Schlatman remembers changing the cylinder heads on that truck. Took weeks.
Boom truck was rusty, "older, needed engine work. You did the engine work." Schlatman agrees. Next photo shows boom truck "painted up." Front end loader parked next to it. Not an excavator, Schlatman tells judge. Different machine.
Front end loader was also rusty when they first got it. #Millard says #Smich would clean and paint machinery at the hangar. "He did that as well, yes," Schlatman agrees.
Next image is the excavator (not the front end loader) at "the farm property," where it was kept. "I took it into the woods, knocked down some trees," #Millard says he was trying to create a road through the swamp. "An excavator is not a bulldozer though, is it?"
Millard destroyed the engine the first time, and that was their relationship, "you tended to fix machines I would break," Schlatman agrees.
Schlatman was working at a 4x4 shop when he met #Millard & was hired to work for Millard on weekends, building a jeep for the Baja race. He was only working Saturdays for Millard at that point.
Wide shot of hangar full of vehicles; planes, cars, forklift etc. Also people set up in the middle "for band practice." This is the Toronto hangar where Schlatman first worked for #Millard.
It was Wayne #Millard who signed his paycheques, #Millard says, although Schlatman doesn't remember that. When he went to Waterloo Dellen #Millard was signing his cheques. Schlatman doesn't remember whose name was on his cheques.
Did Schlatman look at the ownerships for all these vehicles (in the hangar?) No. He doesn't actually know who owned the machinery. His job was to repair the machinery, he agrees.
Next photo shows Millard and a woman and a cat. "I believe that was an upstairs office at the Toronto hangar." Millard was with Jenn in the picture. Schlatman didn't know if #Millard would bring Jenn or Christina Noudga to his wedding.
Millard gave Schlatman half a Camaro for a wedding gift. He bought out the other half of the car. Schlatman had a thing for 67 or 68 Camaros at the time. It was a '68. He doesn't have it anymore.
Schlatman doesn't know if #Millard ever bought anyone else half a car before.
Now the photo of Marlena in the hangar, and now another woman sitting on the stairs of an airplane. Schlatman doesn't recognize "the girl in the image," he says.
Millard is going to zoom in on "the young lady." Is that Christina Noudga? Schlatman says it does not appear to be.
Back to the #Millard welding photo, reminding Schlatman that the crown zoomed in to see the other people in the background of the shot... Schlatman, Smich and Meneses.
Another photo has a young woman on a jeep. Same woman who was sitting on the plane."Not Christina Noudga, is it?" Doesn't appear that way to Schlatman.
Yellow jeep in the shot is the project Schlatman was originally hired for. Completely rebuilt dash. Little of the jeep is original.
The language in their text messages is consistent with the way the two would communicate, Schlatman agrees. They would shake hands, not bump fists. He didn't say things like, "what's up ?" to Schlatman.
The red visa was a card #Millard got for Schlatman. "It came with instructions on how to use it," Millard says. It was used for parts, steel, business payments. "In relation to your work as a ground service technician," Schlatman agrees he didn't use the card for personal uses.
"It was always business related." "Did I tell you the reason for that was taxes? No. You're not an accountant. You're not a bookkeeper. Schlatman agrees he is not.
Millard wasn't a boss who put himself above his employees, he says. He got dirty. Moved garbage. "Large, industrial, extra thick garbage bags."
Five-6 construction worker bags of garbage left the hangar every week, #Millard says. He didn't specify how he got rid of the garbage, Schlatman agrees.
Millard would pick up garbage whenever he was there, "if it got out of hand, I would text you and you would come and get it," Schlatman says.
Schlatman says the farm is about 15-20km from the hangar. 10-15 minute drive. Farm is closer to the highway than the hangar, #Millard says
Millard will finish his cross tomorrow. #LauraBabcock trial done for day.
