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Last week West Virginia authorities were taking a second look. Relatives and friends are insisting that Casolaro, 44, might have been murdered in connection with a book he was writing. In recent months he had been looking into the eight-year legal battle between the Justice Department and Inslaw, Inc., a computer software company based in Washington. Inslaw executives charge that Reagan Administration officials pirated their software, designed for law-enforcement purposes, then sold it. Casolaro believed the Inslaw affair was just part of a much deeper tangle of intrigues that he called "the Octopus." They included the Iran-contra...
...body was immediately embalmed -- though police had not reached his family to get permission. That only heightened his family's suspicions. "I don't think Danny was depressed," insists his brother Anthony, an Arlington, Va., physician, who says Casolaro was convinced that he had succeeded in tying the Inslaw case into "the Octopus." "My sense was that he was very excited...
...been embalmed, pathologists may have had difficulty detecting any foreign substances in Casolaro's blood. "We're not ruling out foul play," said Dr. James Frost, deputy medical examiner, "but I have no evidence of it at this time." Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, now an attorney for Inslaw, called last week for a federal probe of Casolaro's death. Perhaps nothing less will put to rest the questions that surround it: Did Casolaro know too much about a shady operation? Or did he know too much about himself...
...court, Inslaw President William Hamilton pointed out that the Justice Department official who oversaw the Inslaw contract was C. Madison Brewer III, who had previously been fired as the company's general counsel. The whole dispute arose, said Hamilton, from Brewer's desire for revenge. Bason agreed, ruling that Brewer had an "intense and abiding hatred" for Inslaw and had used his position at the Justice Department to "vent his spleen." The judge faulted other Justice officials for not investigating Brewer's actions. As for the appropriation of the Inslaw software, the judge likened Justice to a customer who asks...
Judge Bason has not yet set damages, and the Justice Department, which denies any wrongdoing, plans to appeal the decision. Hamilton hopes to receive as much as $5.4 million from the Government and to use the money to revive Inslaw...