So you have a situation something like this: prior to WM's death, MA is making no money. DM and WM are running off of income from MA, whatever they pay themselves, and the 6-plex, which might make $100k/year.
In 2/12, the hangar is built and they begin to more fully staff. By 11/12, they have a small bunch of people on staff. There are a bunch of aviation related people on Linkedin, and support staff like the receptionist and the accountant DM went to meet on the day he was arrested.
AS had reported DM told him that MA was tapped out. Say they had 10 or more people and a payroll of $600k for the sake of pretty math, that's a $50k hit per month. WM and DM would want to pay themselves too. Consultants, aviation professionals, you know that’s lowball.
MA would also have to make employer side contributions like CPP, Workman's Comp, and there are services/utilities, leases for the land and the company vehicles, fuel, insurance, and so on to pay. There’s lots of money coming out of MA every month.
At some point if there is more going out than coming in (nothing) WM would have to get more money from the bank, or out of his own pockets.
What's the worst thing that could happen? WM and DM run out of money, the bank won’t lend any more, and the bank comes and takes the 6-plex. That would wipe out maybe a $100k income and leave them with the hangar that in terms of cost to own and operate, costs more than it's worth.
So maybe WM saw what could happen. Maybe he took up drinking to enable living in a state of denial.
It's a high stress scenario. WM had all these things in order to live comfortably, but he decided to invest in a MRO, and the project was not flying, and it was taking a ton of cash every month to keep it afloat.
So maybe WM was stressed out and did take his life. It just shifted a cascade of troubles onto DM.
DM had always been able to freely access joint accounts, but now they were frozen in the aftermath of WM's death. He had to kill the MRO to stop the project from bleeding cash.
He tried to appear, on the outside, as wealthy as he's ever been. He was still going to do the Baja. He just didn’t have the cash for the truck he needs for the second jeep they were going to take down. The bank wants to call his credit, not give him more. He needed two trucks, because there were two jeeps.
http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news-s...s-cars-snowmobiles-listed-for-sale-on-kijiji/
The next time they were going to go down to the Baja, it was going to be twice as much fun. There would be two drivers, and two riding shotgun.
MOO, JMO
