Mini-transcript - re. Merritt/DuGal interview concerning Dan and Hawaii.
I've red-bolded a few words which I think highlight his attempts to create suspicion and motive around Dan, and others which suggest he has knowledge of Joey's demise, and green-bolded all the "you know" statements, which in my opinion show how hard he is working to get them on board with Dan being who Joey was afraid of. He stutters a fair bit, so doubled up words are not transcription errors!
20.33 to 24.06 inclusive in the linked video:
TD: Dan’s in Hawaii?
CM: Dan’s flying here today. He’ll be here today.
TD: But you’re sure he was in Hawaii? [CM glances over to the jury]
CM: Well I…
TD: How long has he been in Hawaii?
CM: As long as I’ve known Joseph, as far as I know.
TD: So 2 ½ years?
CM: I think so. I’ve, I’ve never known him to not be in Hawaii. I mean I, I heard, Joseph talks about..
TD: But you had never [?]
CM: Never met Dan.
TD: Oh you [inaudible]
CM: I met Mikey.
TD: You’ve only talked to Dan on the phone […]
CM: And only over the last week. I’ve never talked, before
this, this happened to Joseph, I’d never, never talked to Dan ever. Didn’t even, I mean I knew of his existence, I knew his role in Joseph’s business, I knew um that Joseph was almost, had almost paid him off and I think he was paying him $50,000 for his part of the business, I think that was the number - I’m not ev.. not even sure about that, but I know that he only had $2,000 left, to pay. And Joseph was going to then own Earth Inspired Products and just pay him to run the website, instead of them being partners. Because up until he paid him off he
was [Joseph’s?] partner, I know that. Um, he would talk about that all the time.
Because Joseph was always afraid. 6, 7 months ago Joseph and Dan had a, [pause]
a spat, I don’t know exactly what, how,
you know,
how deep it was or anything so it was 6 or 7 months ago, I think, maybe, I’m sorry I don’t know, but they [long pause] decided at that time that Joseph was going to pay him for the, for his part of the business and for what he had done to build the websites and stuff,
because apparently Dan is extremely adept at website building and
you know he’s, he’s like a big hacker from what I, from what I gather, um, even from him personally when I talked to him over the last week um, I was talking to him the other day and he said, I said something about him knowing the web and he said yeah
I’m not a person that you want to piss off on the web
TD: yeah
CM: matter of fact like, and I said yeah I know, Joseph told me that you could, there’s a lot you could do,
you know, you could shut the, shut the website down because
Joseph was afraid that he was just going to push the button and the website would be gone. Because that’s what Dan said. They were,
you know, [slashed?]. Dan said look, this is what I want,
you know, I ..I don’t have to continue working this website and so Joseph made a deal with him to, to buy his part of it
because, I don’t, Dan wasn’t making enough money, I don’t even know what the, what it was but I know a while back they decided they were going to buy, Joseph was going to buy him out. And then he was just going to run the website. That’s the, that’s the extent that I know of. Um but Dan is coming here, he’s supposed to be here.
TD: [inaudible]