1-29-09

Steve McNally called today just as we were getting ready to head for Seattle for Gator’s throat surgery. This is the first time he has called us since he ripped us off ( we really don’t know for sure how much, $10,000 +) at the benefit. We’ve stopped in a few times to see if he had the $5,000 that we settled on for him to pay us but he never did. He claims that he thinks Mike & Cindy (the jeweler & his wife) stole the benefit money from us and that they were stealing things from the store and pawning the items they stole. He says Mike has been in trouble 12 times in the past for check fraud. He claims they caused Curio City to close down. He says State Farm insurance is after them and they will go to jail. He also claims that he loaned Mike and Cindy $3,000 & then another $4, 000 (I think it was benefit money if he really did loan them money!) and Mike has about $60,000 in Gems. I told Steve that whoever stole the money is right even with a baby rapist in my book and that we would not just get past this like he wants, until he pays the money he agreed to pay us. He wants us to talk to him face to face but I think he’s trying to work us and may be worried about what we might say if there’s an investigation. He needs to just pay us and then leave us the hell alone. Okay, I’ve been writing about the “journey” through cancer treatment but I just had to write about the whole situation with Steve because it really is causing a lot of stress in our lives right now. Gator believes that Steve started out with good intentions and may have even been trying to make more money for us (and maybe some for himself!) by gambling at the casino. Instead he lost it all! His girlfriend (Ann) told us the night we gave our motorcycles to the new owners (October 1rst) that he was at the casino 3 or 4 times a week since we had the benefit! She also said we should do a background check on him because it would help us to understand what Steve did to us! It sounds like he’s done this before ok, enough about that…