TERRY LENZNER, Washington’s top private investigator, who worked for Presidents Nixon and Clinton, urged Washington cops yesterday to question Gary Condit’s wife, Carolyn, more vigorously.
“I find the confluence of events mighty intriguing,” said Lenzner, who once worked as a federal prosecutor for New York’s Southern District.
“Let’s look at it coldly. First of all, I know that Chandra Levy was quite surprised when she was suddenly terminated as an intern at the time of her disappearance.
“Then, at the same time, she applies for a job at the FBI and is turned down – but [calls] her aunt that she has ‘big news.’
“Suddenly, Congressman Condit’s wife arrives in Washington when ‘big news,’ according to Chandra, is about to happen.”
Carolyn Condit, wife of the congressman, reportedly was there the weekend of Chandra’s disappearance to go to Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment, although she had never been there before.
“I am not saying for a second that anyone is involved here in Chandra’s disappearance,” he said.
“It’s just that there are so many questions unanswered. Condit’s wife never, well, rarely, comes to Washington.”
Medical? Perhaps.
“But the confluence of events – Chandra being terminated, losing out on a job, but extremely upbeat, and the wife arriving at the same time – needs further investigation.
“What contact or communication did Mrs. Condit have relating to her decision to come to Washington?
“Did Mrs. Condit pay full airline fare because it was a spur-of-the-moment decision, or did she plan the trip a month before? What prompted the trip? A place where she doesn’t live?”
Lenzner was a little astounded about yesterday’s police search of Condit’s apartment.
“This was the first time they searched the apartment, two months after the young lady disappeared, [of] a man who police insist is not a suspect,” he said.
“I also hope the cops have gone through airline records of Chandra’s movements before her disappearance, and who paid for those tickets. I also hope the cops get records of Mrs. Condit’s airline travel and when they were bought, her telephone records, her bank records.
“It doesn’t make anyone a suspect – it is just simple work of a cop or a prosecutor, which I once was.
“I don’t know why there is not a grand jury sitting today where people have to give evidence under oath. I don’t know why a grand jury wasn’t sitting yesterday or even last week. Try to work it out.”