While my money may be on Galvis, I’m not betting a lot on it.

It is clearly suspicious that Galvis told me Mauer didn’t exist and was not a patient at Bergen, when in fact the opposite has been shown to be the case. But there are other conclusions to be considered before I jump to the one that makes him a bad guy.

Galvis said that Lewinsky faked Mauer’s existence, and there remains the chance that he at least changed Mauer’s identity in the hospital system. I don’t know what he would have to gain from doing so, but there’s plenty I don’t know.

Maybe Galvis was wrong. Maybe there was some kind of administrative foul-up that confused Mauer’s contact information with someone else, an innocent error that led Galvis to believe it was evidence of Lewinsky’s drug maneuverings.

Then there is always the chance that Galvis faked the information himself, simply to provide me with the information I was asking for. He could have known that Lewinsky was dirty, and therefore might have felt that by making this up, he was serving the greater good. It would also have served the purpose of getting me off his back, something he seemed like he wanted to do.

To take a more negative view of Galvis, which is to say that he is the actual drug conspirator and was simply setting up Lewinsky to take the fall, presents some problems. When Lewinsky left our office after we brought him in for questioning, he spoke to Silva on the phone.

It’s incriminating enough that Lewinsky spoke to Silva at all, but the fact is that they talked about the drugs. In my eyes that represents obvious proof that Lewinsky was dirty, so in pointing it out, Galvis was absolutely correct.

To make it even more negative, at least in terms of Galvis, it was Silva who placed the call. He already knew about Lewinsky’s meeting with us, and even knew what had been discussed. Lewinsky must have told someone, and since we had his phones covered, it had to have been in person, at the hospital. Galvis is obviously the most likely, in fact the only, candidate for that confidence. And whoever Lewinsky told, that person must have called Silva and alerted him. I should have realized this earlier.

Could Galvis and Lewinsky have been coconspirators with Silva, and Galvis was trying to push Lewinsky out so he could take over by himself? That doesn’t seem possible, because in alerting us to what Lewinsky was doing, Galvis was guaranteeing that the drug conspiracy would come to an end. Why would he go out of his way to take over an operation, if the act of taking it over rendered the operation defunct?

But the fact is, it is proving to be dangerous to be at the top of this investigation’s totem poles. Joey Silva was at the top of his organization, and he’s in jail. Tony Silva was second, and he’s dead. Salvatore Tartaro was in charge, and he’s gone. Lewinsky was the head of his area of the hospital, and he’s currently residing on a slab.

Is it “revenge of the underlings,” or just a coincidence? And does it matter at this point?

So my money is on Galvis, but I’m not giving odds on it.