Check numbers. Credit card numbers. State's exhibit numbers. Defense's exhibit numbers. Invoice numbers. Receipt numbers. And a restaurant called 303.

Enough numbing numbers of numbers named during the credit card fraud trial of Clint Schuler to 86 a mathematician.

The state has charged construction company president Schuler with six felony counts of unauthorized credit card use.

The 12-person jury continued Thursday to hear witnesses questioned by Assistant District Attorneys Stephanie Sprecher and Dan Itzen, and cross-examined by Schuler's attorney Tom Sedar.

Nearly everything boiled down to money and the tedious presentation of documents such as bills, receipts for items purchased and a rented storage unit, credit card numbers, expiration dates, and exhibit numbers.

According to court documents, Schuler made numerous unauthorized charges between February and May 2005 on credit cards belonging to his former business partner, Serge d'Elia.

D'Elia told the court that those charges totaled $871,000, and he's still responsible for $33,000 of that.

But Sedar has told the court that Schuler was authorized to use the cards and that his client is the real victim in this case.

D'Elia owned properties in the Casper area and paid Schuler to build homes on the lots, according to court testimony.

In 2003, they decided to expand their business by splitting costs to finance 303, the high-end restaurant located at 303 S. Wolcott.

During questioning by Sprecher, d'Elia said the partnership began to fracture when both parties' cash flow tightened in the summer of 2004, and he authorized Schuler to use credit cards to pay for the restaurant remodel. Costs exceeded expectations, and d'Elia told the court that he's invested nearly $3 million in the restaurant.

During cross examination by Sedar, d'Elia said he never made any promise to allow Schuler to repeat the use of the credit cards after 303 was finished in December 2004.

One such unauthorized charge was for wood flooring ordered from iFloor.com and shipped to Storage West unit No. 133 in Scottsdale, Ariz.

On Thursday, Sprecher called iFloor.com's customer service director Dennis Symington to ask him about the order.

Schuler had made two prior orders and used a Visa card and an online check to pay for them, Symington said.

Sprecher gave him 13 invoices - state exhibits Nos. 1001 to 1013 - that represented transactions.

However, exhibit 1007 of a Schuler purchase was of an invoice with a note that apparently was not generated by iFloor.com's computers, Symington said.

Sprecher summarized him saying, "so 1007 is a cut-and-paste job of someone not in your company," to which he responded, "that's correct."

Under cross-examination, Sedar asked if iFloor.com's automatic invoice system was infallible.

Symington responded that it was not 100 percent infallible, but if invoice 1007 had been generated by his company it would have had a copy in the system now.

Another witness, Terry Aldridge of JTL, had to review state exhibits Nos. 1501-1528, about Schuler's concrete purchases and when they were made.

Schuler paid for one $15,000 transaction with two of d'Elia's credit cards, and then used his own to cover for those purchases after d'Elia complained to JTL that he didn't authorize the card use, Aldridge said.

The trial resumes today in 7th District Court.

Reporter Tom Morton can be reached at (307) 266-0592, or at Tom.Morton@casperstartribune.net.