The Sherman family have brought incredible resources to bear on the case of the murder of Barry Sherman, a billionaire, and his wife, Honey. Because they can, writes Rosie DiManno.
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2018 By
Rosie DiManno rbbm
''What is so eye-catching is not just the extravagance of the reward, announced by family lawyer Brian Greenspan on Friday at the Apotex headquarters in north Toronto, for which reporters had to pre-register, sign in and be escorted to the bathroom by a security official,
lest anybody go poking about in what is a notoriously secret, intensely cutthroat business. The kind that just might attract, say, the services of a contract killer. And lord knows Barry Sherman had made an abundance of enemies during his spectacular career.
It’s the entitlement, the check-book command that some people enjoy because that’s all they’ve ever known.''
“We believe that it provides the new initiative, the new opportunity to seek information,” said Greenspan. “It’s not as if leads have not poured into my office over the past 10 months. Every consideration is given to each of the calls, whether from a psychic or from someone who might otherwise prove to be untrustworthy.''
“Many, many investigations are successfully concluded as a result of someone in either a criminal organization or someone who has been involved as an offender in the criminal community who is aware of information … and until and unless an incentive is provided to that person, either by leniency in a subsequent (court matter) or the offer of a significant award, they remain silent and remain committed to that silence within that community.
“This is the opportunity for those people to come forward. And as they become wealthy, their colleagues who are engaged in this crime become the subjects of a prosecution.’’
''And, of course, the Sherman clan has one critical axe to grind: the colossal blunder, by the family’s reckoning, of an early investigative theory,
bruited around un-sourced in media reports, that the deaths were a murder-suicide.''
''Of course, it is entirely possible, even likely, that police — they long stayed silent about the investigation, no updates — are playing their cards close to the vest because they’re loath to share information with family members who may still be viewed as suspects, although Greenspan dismissed that possibility out of hand.''