There can’t be any question about that. It is inconceivable that he went to the doctors and nurses that treated Travis Mauer for an extended period of time, only to have them tell him that Mauer was never there. He was there, and they would know it.
Like everything else in this case, though, there are a number of possible meanings to Cassel’s lie. The most innocent version is that he never checked with those people at all; that he got busy and just went with what I had told him I believed in the first place.
The more likely interpretation is that Cassel is dirty, that he was Lewinsky’s coconspirator in the drug operation, that he was the person Lewinsky told about his questioning by us, that he was the person who alerted Joey Silva to it, and that he was involved with getting Lewinsky killed.
All this time we thought it was Galvis, and it could be him as well, though I would think it is unlikely that a conspiracy would have that many pieces. There are law firms with less partners than that. My guess is that Cassel told Galvis that Mauer was fake, and Galvis just fed it back to me.
The other damning fact is that Rita Carlisle was having an affair with Cassel, so it makes sense that she learned what was going on from him, perhaps by accident. Either way, she paid for it with her life.
At this point I can’t trust either one of them, but if only one of them is guilty, I think it’s Cassel.
I call Nate and Jessie and tell them what I’ve learned, and I direct them to get a warrant so that we can electronically surveil Cassel. At this point we have surveillance on half the citizens of New Jersey, but we don’t really have a choice.
I also tell them to get an urgent subpoena for the records of the murder victims on the list I gave to Cassel. I didn’t let on to him that I no longer trust him to get it for me, because I obviously didn’t want him to think he’s under suspicion.
But there is no longer an option to get the records quietly. If Nate is right, then a murder victim is an opening for drug records to be faked, and drugs to be stolen. And an explosion in a crowded place would be an ideal way to accumulate a lot of victims at once.
There is no time to waste. Today is the fourteenth.
We’re two days away.