Uh oh...is Dave Meltzer a liar?

Scarborough Country Notes from Thursday night:

- Dan Abrams brought up a reporter attributed to Dave Meltzer that Nancy Benoit confronted Chris Benoit about a life insurance policy listing his ex-wife and children from his first marriages as the beneficiaries. Abrams also noted the interview with the AP with Chris’s mother. “It’s so late now, too late. You can’t turn the clock back .. we would certainly hope so. We just don’t know.” Mrs. Benoit making the assertion that her son may be alive if DEA would have moved in quicker regarding Chris’s steroid use.

- Abrams points out how everyone is trying to shift the blame in the case. 1) lets blame the DEA; 2) lets blame the doctor, 3) Billy O’Reilly blaming Nancy Benoit and instead of blaming Chris Benoit.

- Defense attorney BJ Bernstein said its not ridiculous to claim the investigation is taking too long when the indictments handed down to Dr. Phil Astin are for alleged improper prescriptions dating back to 2004 and 2005.

- DEA Spokesman Rusty Payne told AP, “We can arrested and prosecute users, but they are not the target or focus of most investigations .. we want to bring charges that are legitimate. Cases take time.”

- Marc Mero said we need to go after the doctors and wrestlers, but realizes the DEA probably doesn’t have the man power to go after every single user.

- Dave Meltzer said it was well known in the Atlanta community that Dr. Astin saw a lot of professional wrestlers and athletes and was liked because he was seen as the “handy man” for what wrestlers needed.

- Meltzer pointed out that Dr. Astin’s was fifty miles away from Benoit, but Mero said that Dave is sugar coating the issue and says wrestlers can get what they need anywhere they want.

- Meltzer was questioned about the life insurance policy he reported on. Meltzer said he isn’t sure if the insurance policy is true or not, but knows the argument over it occurred. Dave said he doesn’t have record of the insurance policy.

- The panel discussed the Benoit murder-suicide theories around this case. Meltzer said the drugs use likely made him more depressed than he already was, but Dave said he can’t come up with any reason he would have killed his son.

- A reporter that talked to the DA said he is confident of a double murder-suicide.

- Abrams mentioned another tidbit reported by Meltzer that the couple fought in front of friends.

- Meltzer was asked about his report that Nancy put a note in a safe deposit box that if anything happened to her, it was Benoit. Meltzer said he doesn’t know for certain the note exists, but knows investigators are investigating a safe deposit box. Abrams said the authorities know of the safe deposit box, but there was nothing in it that suggested she had written such a note.

- Mero said he had thought the Benoit marriage was fine, and never even saw Chris get angry.

- Mero said he had worked with guys that are hard to work with or aggressive, and some guys you could see possibly snapping.