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"My wife is not well enough to speak to anyone Director Mueller did not, naturally, ask about her prescriptions It’s more than likely the pills were hers; where else would Stony have gotten thereat many prescriptions to help her deal with her chronic pain and an anxiety proble bottle or two, and I’ to ask her now What difference does itresponsible for his death?"

Sherlock didn’t let that indict "Mr Hart, when Stony caument with anyone while he was here? On the phone, or with you or Mrs Hart?"

"I told you, we talked about Toainst him It was an eue What in heaven’s naue about? As for phone calls, he only had two that I reh for you?"

Savich said, "You told us Peter Biaggini wielded great influence over Stony"

"Yes, that’s true I asked Stony if he thought Peter ht have posted that picture, since my son certainly didn’t post it Stony said he didn’t knoho did"

Sherlock remembered Hart’s veiled contempt toward his son yesterday about how Peter treated him She said, "Stony told us yesterday he and his friends usually did what Peter wanted He said Peter slashed the tires on your wife’s new Prius years ago because he’d refused to do so Peter wanted hi the living roo s and back, his hands clenched at his sides She saw hilance up at the ca is, I do Carolyn was livid Stony didn’t tell us it was Peter who’d done it, but I knew I knew"

Savich said, "Sir, you told us Saturday you thought Peter Biaggini was a little shite I neglected to ask you why you believe that"

"Peter’s as arrogant as only a young man who’s smart and knows he’s smart can be I don’t understand why this isn’t clear to you Peter must have uploaded Tommy’s photo on Stony’s computer because it has the anonymizer software and he believed no one could ever trace it There’s simply no other reason I can think of for any of this So why don’t you go arrest him and make him tell you who it ho viciously murdered his friend, and why he uploaded that photo, thus putting blame on my son"

Savich wished he believed Peter had murdered Tommy, but deep down he knew he didn’t believe it at all, despite Peter’s asinine behavior in interview, despite his just-so alibi Had he uploaded the photo? If he had, then--"Was there any reason you know of for Peter Biaggini to kill Toht Hart up short "Well, no, not really And listen to ini, I don’t believe he did murder Tommy Cronin; ould he? If he uploaded the photo, then where did he get it? I have no idea, but still, where’s the ? It had to be soainst Palmer Cronin If the fool hadn’t turned a deaf ear to all the warnings boress hadn’t kept encouraging the banks to continue writing unpayable es, let them develop and market derivatives no one understood, the collapse wouldn’t have happened It’s that sireed and stupidity"

Savich had already heard about a more flamboyant version of the same diatribe delivered by Hart to the Commonwealth Club teeks before He’d probably been paid a princely sum for it Savich said, his voice precise and cold, "I understand, Mr Hart, that you sold quite a few of those bonds yourself before the crash Wasn’t it after they went under that you decided to turn against your own compatriots and join the talk circuit?"

Hart looked like he wanted to punch Savich in the face, but he was sh not to try it He turned away and walked quickly toward the s, to get control of himself He said over his shoulder, "What we did, we did because it seeood business that ood return for our investors None of us guessed soest banks in the world could totter toward collapse in a few short weeks Iht, but happen it did

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