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00:00Mr. Shufs, what do you do for a living, sir?
00:02I'm an airline pilot. I actually own an airline consulting business.
00:05I do mostly international work at this point.
00:06You work for yourself?
00:08Yes, I do.
00:08For how long have you worked for yourself?
00:10I've had the consulting business for about seven years,
00:14although I have also, during that time, worked for companies, too.
00:18During the seven years?
00:19During the seven years, yes.
00:20You work for companies full-time?
00:21Some of them, yeah, still did the consulting as a side job.
00:24When was the last time you had a full-time job, Mr. Shufs?
00:27A full-time job would have been December last year.
00:32And who did you work for at that time?
00:34Falcon Air Express, an airline out of Miami.
00:36How long did you work for them?
00:38For the most part, about seven years.
00:39So for the last seven years, up until last December, you had a full-time job?
00:43Correct.
00:43Give me a ballpark range of what you were earning up until December.
00:47About $100,000 a year.
00:48And what happened in December?
00:49The consulting business picked up quite a bit, and I took a contract in Africa.
00:54When did you leave for Africa?
00:55The very end of December, almost January 1st, right at the end of the year.
00:59Where in Africa?
01:00Ghana.
01:01How long did you stay?
01:02I was there on that particular assignment for about a month and a half.
01:05And then?
01:06Mid-February.
01:07And then?
01:07The company that I was working for, that I was doing the consulting for, I had been doing
01:11some consulting previous to that, and they overnight closed the business, walked out,
01:17and didn't pay me or anybody else.
01:19So I came back with no income for the time I had been gone and no job.
01:24And it was at that fortuitous moment that you met Ms. Gallagher.
01:28No, it wasn't.
01:28Actually, we had met about three years ago on a dating site, but we had stayed as friends.
01:33We had communicated a good bit.
01:35At that time, I was still married in the middle of a divorce.
01:38So let me understand this.
01:39You met on a dating site while you were still married?
01:42Yes.
01:42Keep going.
01:43In February, when I came back, we got together.
01:46We spent some time together.
01:47We lived in different parts of the state.
01:49I lived in Miami.
01:50She lived in Sarasota.
01:51So when we would meet, we would normally meet someplace in between.
01:54What's in between Miami and Sarasota?
01:57We would, Naples, we would sometimes meet in.
02:00There were a couple times that she actually came over to the Fort Lauderdale area and spent
02:06time there.
02:06She was on business.
02:07She spent a couple times there.
02:08One time, she came to Orlando, and we met in Orlando.
02:12Okay.
02:13So as of February, which is when you came back with no job and no income, that was about
02:19the time when you were no longer friends with Ms. Gallagher.
02:22You developed more of a romantic relationship with her.
02:26Yes.
02:26I had been out of the country.
02:27Now, at what point did Ms. Gallagher transfer money from her bank account into yours?
02:34I believe it was in March, if I remember correctly.
02:37March of 2014.
02:39That's correct.
02:40Now, I'd like you to tell me the circumstances surrounding her transferring, because these
02:44are certain things that are now given.
02:46Right.
02:46She transferred money into your bank account.
02:49That's correct.
02:49She has all the documentation to establish that she transferred the money into your bank
02:54account in March.
02:55And I would like to hear from you, Mr. Shoups, the background story for that, because she
02:59would like her money back.
03:00Okay.
03:01We met in Orlando.
03:02At that time, I was staying with my daughter in Daytona, and Orlando was kind of a middle
03:07spot between where she lived and...
03:08How many children do you have?
03:09I have only one daughter, 31 years old, and a grandson.
03:11Does she work?
03:12Yes, she does.
03:13Go ahead.
03:14We met in Orlando.
03:15We spent some time.
03:16She knew that I was...
03:17Don't tell me what she knew.
03:19Okay.
03:19Don't tell me what she knew, because that caused...
03:21We talked about that I was very stressed, because I had not been paid by the people in Africa.
03:27And she offered to help me out.
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