Tony McCall

They were a great couple to get that kind of money. They were doing things for people and, I mean, good things. Michael especially was doing a lot of charity work.

One time she and Mike were at the house and she told me that they were going to buy a town in Africa because that was going to be their mission, you know, pay for everyone's home and build homes.

She did give me a number at the time. You know, this was like $343 million we're going to have to put in this bank. That was a little hard to believe.

I said, no, these are friends of mine. I've seen what they've done in the community.

It would hurt a lot less for this to have been someone that I didn't know that had scammed me out of money. It would hurt a lot less. I was already wounded from my husband passing away and my kids the same.

Michael was not the brains of the couple. He was a great guy, but Natalie was the brains of the operation. And Michael would look for contracts on the government website, and then he would give them to Natalie, and she would make the bid.

I believe that Natalie used the leukemia to stall on having any payments. I knew she didn't have stage three leukemia because it's not in stages, it's in types. Everything pointed to the fact that she did not have it. She had told us that she was losing her hair from the chemo she was taking.

And she flips her hair over, and she has the perfect dime-sized circle where she has shaved a spot in her hair. And if you lose your hair from chemo, you don't see 5 o'clock shadow. What woman would shave a spot on their head to say, look, I'm losing my hair? And so I absolutely knew at that point that she would do anything to cover up and to lie.

He's going to sleep it off.

She said that he was sleeping it off on the couch.

After Mike had passed, Natalie called me one day and said that I've created this scholarship in his memory.

She said, oh, they came here and they took everything. When they raided her house that day in June, that was huge. I mean, it was all anyone could talk about.

Natalie weaved such a web of lies, keeping us all drinking the Kool-Aid.

There was no money. It was a fake scholarship. Natalie weaved such a web of lies. They were bizarre like that. It was still keeping us all in the flock.

We were glad. When she was arrested, she was wearing the tailgate socialite t-shirt. That was the true Natalie right there.

I spent $256,000.

She was a sports socialite. When Michael was the coach, she was the one you got all the information from. She was the one that ordered the uniforms and got your sizes.

Oh, absolutely. They're doing very well. I invested and I spent $256,000.

Everybody is very involved with their kids around here, into sports. And that's where parents usually hang out at school sporting events.

We met the Cochrans because I had put my son into the draft for the Little League baseball.

Michael very much took on a father figure role, especially for Cash. He was so good to him. He took him everywhere. They went fishing. They went to practices. It was the dream come true to have that father figure when you don't have one for your kids and you want one.

I mean, it was all anyone could talk about. Your friend, 38 years old, is gone.

When she told me that we're going to make all of our employees watch War Dogs as like an onboarding video, I said, well, you do realize that the guys went to jail, right?

She had pulled someone in that I was close to and had been getting them to do contracts.

It pays out in 45 days, but you have to do it right now. Like eBay, she bids at the very last minute so that nobody can go in and bid over top of her. But you have to tell me right now. And so I did it. I spent $256,000.

I had seen the money that they were spending.