Posted By:
Ed HansJoanne,
I think the obvious answer is that they simply copied the checks before depositing them. Many legitimate enterprises do this for record keeping purposes (as I do for my Ebay transactions). Why did the Clubbies do it? Probably not for record keeping reasons, but for just such eventualities as this, where their own skin was on the line, and they needed something to use as a bargaining chip.
Edited for spelling.