Tony McCall
Appearances
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
I said, no, these are friends of mine. I've seen what they've done in the community.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
After Mike had passed, Natalie called me one day and said that I've created this scholarship in his memory.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
We were glad. When she was arrested, she was wearing the tailgate socialite t-shirt. That was the true Natalie right there.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
Everybody is very involved with their kids around here, into sports. And that's where parents usually hang out at school sporting events.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
We met the Cochrans because I had put my son into the draft for the Little League baseball.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
I mean, it was all anyone could talk about. Your friend, 38 years old, is gone.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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?
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
She had pulled someone in that I was close to and had been getting them to do contracts.
20/20
Small Town, Big Con
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.