bbm - I think the answer is what you stated (my bolded), I really think they had no resources to ante-up any $$$ at all, wasn't their house about to be foreclosed? so there goes the chance for a second mortgage (I think), which is what many folks use to raise extra cash,
plus it seems FCA drained CA's retirement fund, so even to withdraw funds at risk of a terribly high tax on the amount, some would take the financial hit of that early-withdraw tax to get their hands on the needed $$, but FCA took care of nearly draining that in the year(s) before her arrest,
also it seems ALL extended-family was completely hands-off as far as in pitching in any significant $$ to helping the A's with the defense of FCA,
Now I wonder though if CA still had the capability to get some kind of bank loan, but maybe their cash flow versus any required payment was nil? didn't GA just start a new job with a shaky recent job history? now CA certainly had the long-term good-paying job, and even if she paid all of their bills on time, you still have to a good debt-to-income ratio be able to make the payments on the loan. Did they have really high credit card bills, plus maybe some car payments, plus their household bills, etc., did that eat up CA's whole salary, making a substantial loan to help in an expensive criminal defense simply not possible?
I think if they could have, they would have. Even if they were both against JB, I think once they realized that is who FCA was keeping, they would've if they could've. I really don't think they had the financial means.
The best part of the jailhouse videos for me was FCA literally BEGGING in a backwards kind of way for CA/GA to bond her out, and it was falling on deaf ears.
I wonder if we will ever find out what really happened to the "missing" $500,000, half-a-mil, quite a sum, from Phil's payment to the A's for the interview, other than "knowing" that if went to support themselves and FCA in some hidden fashion, and the possible donation to the Church People, and some funds "squirreled away" for future use, other than this speculation, will they have to ever show any kind of disbursement statement with the dissolution of the fund? and then what happens to that final $100,000 left when the fund dissolved? Wonder how Lippman made out on that whole deal? Fascinating, all of it.
IMO, MOO, etc.