While the Ministry of Public Works is awaiting the report on the furnishing of the new Supreme Court building, the embattled deputy minister “Kalil” Michel promised to “clear up the rumors” today. The ministry does not know if the furniture that was seized from a warehouse belonging to Quirino Paulino Castillo, in jail in the US for drug smuggling, really belonged to a contractor for the furnishing of the Supreme Court. According to lawyer Julio Cury, “those are not the furnishings that she (Margarita Gomez, the decorator that finished the building) bought, but how can you prove that they were destined for the Supreme Court building?” In fact, Cury, talking to reporters from the El Caribe, insisted that the furnishings are still in the process of being placed in the Supreme Court, and these are the furnishing that belong to the contract assigned to Margarita Gomez. However, according to lawyer Felix Olivares, the legal-beagle for Quirino Paulino Castillo, that furniture (the stuff in his warehouse) also belongs to Margarita Gomez and was destined to the SCJ building. “Kalil” Michel, the embattled vice-minister attributed all of the hullabaloo to the rumor mill and called it “just part of what goes on in this country.” The tale is so twisted that Michel is also the official that negotiated the US$2,944,742 contract for the government in 1999 with the Bohenco company that was replaced by Margarita Gomez in October of last year. Confusing, huh?