Posters have opinions, and IMO that hasn't debunked anything. I need to wait to see all the evidence.
Sequida Sr. called Joey a crook, because Joey wouldn't tell him what he was selling the products for. I believe that Chase never owed MSM any money and there is no testimony that he did. There was something about an insurance claim that they were waiting on payment for, but that was from Joey(and they later sued Mikey for IIRC), both Carmen and Sequieda Jr testified that Joey paid, not Chase.
Feel free to find the testimony and post it though, maybe I missed it.
Chase wrote two cheques for Metro on Feb 5th, backdated to the 4th, totaling $1900, for miscellaneous manufacturing - per the memo line.
Carmen was calling Joey on Friday 5th - she doesn't remember if the call was about money or a project.
Chase made it down to Metro pretty sharpish after his weekend in the desert with those cheques for Carmen. He also told her he'd been trying to get hold of Joey all weekend but hadn't been able to - matter of fact he made zero calls to Joey on Saturday while he was in Victorville, and he called Joey's number twice within the same minute at 3.47 pm on Sunday. If we take that further to Monday 8th he didn't try calling Joey either that morning because his phone had no activity for 6 hours from 7.26 am to 1.31 pm.
Joey had written a cheque for Metro on Feb 1st for $6350.
This raises questions;
1. Why didn't Joey write those cheques himself on Feb 4th, that Chase wrote on the 5th, or even write them on the 1st when he wrote that other cheque? Clearly it was not new billing after the 4th for Chase to be taking cheques in after the weekend and having not been at work on Friday 5th, meaning Metro was owed this money prior to the 4th.
2. Why would Joey suddenly hand over responsibility to Chase for printing cheques to Metro, from a different QB account, on the day he was murdered?
3. Why would this need to be hidden from Summer? (That was what Chase told detectives was the reason for the QB changes.)
I take this to mean MSM was owed $1900 prior to the 4th, Joey would know about that because it's not new billing to have been paid immediately after the weekend, and so I add that to his discovery of the cheque for $2495 that Chase cashed on the 2nd. Joey not paying it and Chase issuing those cheques as a matter of urgency looks like Chase had indeed spent money given to him for miscellaneous manufacturing.
Joey made out the following cheques to Charles Merritt during the period Dec 15th to Feb 2nd -
1. Dec 15 - 1250
2. Dec 30 - 2700
3. Jan 12 - 1300
4. Jan 25 - 500
5. Jan 28 - 350
6. Feb 2nd - 100
Total = $6200 over 1 and a half months.
(Chase bumped this up by $2495 on Feb 2nd, to $8695)
Chase was only working at Metro I believe, so if this is all remuneration why does Joey split it up into so many small payments? Does this seem to be a fair income 10 years ago for a plumber/welder/crater who wasn't even showing up for work about a month before the murders per Joe Sequeida's testimony? Or does it look like it might have included money for miscell. manuf. costs?
The bottom line is Chase was more than a mailman by Feb 5th, he was directly involved in cheque writing and settlement of Metro's bills.
MOO