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district attorney's "gotcha."
"We were working on my rape case up at the squad when Homicide got the news
she'd gone missing. Chapman thought I might be useful because of my
familiarity with the ballet world, and the possibility that Galinova had been
assaulted before she was killed."
"Chapman always finds a way to make you useful, doesn't he?"
I ignored the shot. There wasn't a rumor that circulated anywhere within the
office that escaped Battaglia's radar. "Paul, I'd really like to ask you to
assign me to the investigation."
Homicide cases were controlled in the Trial Division by Pat McKinney, a
rat-faced prosecutor whose legal ability was obscured by the pettiness of his
personality and the longtime affair he'd conducted with an incompetent young
lawyer for whom he'd carved out a protected place in the bureau. I had
challenged McKinney too many times to be favored with investigations that fell
on the outer borders of my own unit. Battaglia's reliance on my sex crimes
prosecutors for the resolution of so many high-profile cases our ability to
exonerate falsely accused suspects before charging them and to nail those
guilty of such heinous crimes had given me direct access to him whenever I
wanted it.
"Nobody's got the case for us?"
"No suspects yet. The squad's just getting on all the employees today.
Nobody's been tapped to work on it."
"It's not a rape, according to the commissioner. Any reason to think the perp
was trying?"
I had gone online to find the old news stories about the first murder at the
Met. I reminded Battaglia of the facts, since the case had occurred before he
was in office.
"That wasn't a completed rape either, Paul, but it was certainly an attempt at
one. The best those detectives could reconstruct, the violinist ran into the
stagehand when she was lost. He got her in an elevator and tried to assault
her. He probably killed her when she resisted, when she was struggling."
"So you want to keep that option open?"
"Yes. We've got four hundred guys who were somewhere backstage that afternoon
and evening, so detectives have got to talk to every one of them, in case this
was random or to see whether one of them had been stalking Galinova since
she'd arrived here. And we're developing a very complex personal life. A
lover's quarrel a domestic isn't so far out of the question."
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"How so?"
"Galinova recently put her husband on notice that she wanted a legal
separation. She had something going on with this guy called Joe Berk, and a
former lover is the artistic "
"Slow down, Alex. Don't just throw Joe Berk's name in here and slide by it."
"Is he a friend?"
"He's everybody's friend. And he'd be your worst enemy."
There were no powerful businessmen or -women who had somehow not been in
Battaglia's orbit throughout his several terms in office as one of the most
influential law-enforcement figures in the country. Every prominent New Yorker
had been solicited for campaign contributions over the years, and most had
benefited from the services of the great lawyers mentored in their careers by
Paul Battaglia. Among his prosecutorial alumni were partners in every major
firm, litigators sought to battle in the most controversial trials, judges on
the state and federal bench, commissioners leading government agencies of
every type, and one protege who had been a contender for the position of
attorney general of the United States the country's premier legal post.
"Anything I need to know?"
"Don't turn your back to him, Alex. He's vicious."
"I assume the commissioner told you he was with Galinova arguing with
her just before she disappeared?"
"Take it wherever it goes. You don't need a pass from me." Battaglia's mantra
had been consistent, no matter where the tentacles of an investigation led.
I'd been given green light to do the right thing, which is all he asked of
each one of us.
"So year answer is yes? I can stay on die case? And you tell
McKinney, please. I don't even want to see him."
"I want to know everything you develop before I read it in thePost with a
Mickey Diamond byline. Got that?"
Diamond was the veteran courthouse reporter who snagged the best leaks from
the NYPD brass, and when facts failed to fall in his lap, he fashioned the
most creative sidebars in journalism.
"And when you know where you're going with Berk, I'll give you some background
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