But he already had a 2nd QB account, it didn't need to be created, the vendor's did however in the Custom account (was only 4 in total including Merritt and MSM that were added in the recent days) They were used for 2 different reasons from my understanding. All of Joey's cheques, printed or handwritten came from the same bank account per Hanke's testimony.
And further from Hanke's testimony
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Q Okay. Can you tell us what you did to obtain — did you obtain records from QuickBooks?
A Yes, I authored a search warrant to Intuit QuickBooks Company and obtained records for Joseph McStay’s account.
Q Did you also have contact with Intuit and individuals familiar with how those records are kept?
A Yes, I did.
Q Did they tell you those records are kept and maintained in the ordinary course of their business?
A Yes.
Q How is that kept? Is that kept online somewhere?
A It was an online QuickBooks account. It was stored by QuickBooks.
Q Were the entries or whatever happened on that QuickBooks account where they were stored, created at or near the time that they were performed?
A Yes, that’s correct.
Q Okay. What did you learn in your investigation about the QuickBooks accounts belonging to Earth Inspired Products?
A I learned that Joseph had two separate QuickBooks online accounts, with two separate e-mail addresses.
Q And how were those divided up, if you know?
A The first QuickBooks account was created in September of 2004, associated with an e-mail of Contact at Earth Inspired Products.com. And there was a second account created in 2008 with an e-mail associated of Custom at Earth Inspired Products.com.
Q Now, with regard to QuickBooks, did you become familiar with the program, how to use it?
A Yes, I did.
Q How did you receive access to these records from Intuit?
A Intuit cloned Joseph’s accounts and made me an authorized user on the accounts. It was an online-based account, so I signed in using my information, and I could view Joseph’s account. I couldn’t alter it. I couldn’t change it or modify it. I could view and print the records, only.
Q And those are the records that we previously discussed were maintained by QuickBooks and the entries were at or near the time the events occurred?
A That’s correct.
Q Okay. With regard to both of those accounts, both the
Contact and the Custom account, how were those divvied up in the business? Was there two sides to the business, two separate businesses? Or do you know?
A Yes, there was. The original account, the Contact account that was created in 2004, had a mixture of Joseph’s personal finances as well as his businessfinances. The Custom account was strictly business, but
he was not writing checks from that account.