Eleven months after Cahill’s statements to authorities, a confidential informer reported seeing Cook use cocaine “hundreds of times,” as well as marijuana, prescription medicines and even crack cocaine.

That informer also said that McGilvery was Cook’s heroin dealer, and told a story about Cook getting prescription pain pills from a “dirty doctor” he encountered while on vacation in Hawaii.

The informer also said that Christ was using cocaine.

Phone records obtained by federal agents showed that Christ was calling McGilvery in January 2013, both before and after MGilvery was arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents at the home of his suppliers, Deborah A. Perkins and her son Douglas W. Oliver.

Perkins told investigators that McGilvery was selling heroin to a “professional person” at the St. Clair County courthouse, possibly a lawyer. Perkins said she’d asked McGilvery to check on the status of one of her cases involving a drug overdose death. He reported back that the court system had many murders and limited money to try them and she “did not have to worry.”

The overdose cases against Perkins and Oliver were transferred to Cook. Both eventually pleaded guilty of federal drug-related charges and received prison terms.