I agree that it is unusual that JS allegedly had access to HP’s personal bank statements, let alone that he handed them freely over to JW, who then did not look at them in detail (based on the quoted article above).
If JW failed to look over the statements in detail, perhaps he simply mistook the bank statements that he received for personal bank statements (because HP’s name was on them) rather than business account bank statements. Also, JS’s assistant may have called them personal accounts when speaking with JW simply because JS was not aware of the existence of the account(s). There are a lot of businesses under HP’s controller umbrella (as previously posted on this thread), and she would have been able to transfer funds between those businesses’ bank accounts with relative ease. If, in her role, she was the only one monitoring the activity between all of the business accounts, any of the accounts could have been used for personal purposes.
All MOO.