Wasn't meant to be an intentional dig or inferred to be, simply the line
by the way your crew tried to implicate the 3 of us in this
reads as if they were part of the crew,
"by the way the crew" would have distanced him from being part of them, does that make sense??
Sorry for any confusion, thats why I put about the movers to show that they wouldn't be part of the flying crew.