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There is no question that McNally has stepped on a lot of toes, including those of federal prosecutors. "McNally was a trusted confidant of high-level Gambino crime-family members," says Assistant U.S. Attorney David Shapiro. The FBI has investigated McNally several times but has never brought criminal charges. Law-enforcement sources told TIME that McNally is the target of a current FBI investigation. Asked about this latest probe, McNally responded that he is considering filing a suit against the FBI. "Of course they're not going to like me," he says. "I show up in every big case."
McKenna, by contrast, is praised as a prince of a guy with a sterling record. Criminal defense attorney Richard Lubin, who has hired McKenna dozens of times, insists, "He's the kind of guy you'd have baby-sit your kids, and you'd come home and he'd be on the floor cutting paper dolls with them." In 1991, however, McKenna was more likely to be found at the bar of the Brazilian Court Hotel in Palm Beach, dishing dirt to reporters about the woman who unsuccessfully pressed date-rape charges against his client, William Kennedy Smith.
According to the Simpson team, one member was recently fired on suspicion that he had planted stories in the press. That's not likely to end the leaks, of course. "The big hurrah in this case is you fellas still don't know what's in ((Simpson's police)) statement," says Bailey of the press. Any hints? "I'll simply say the statement will play a critical role in the defense." Along with such tantalizing hints from the attorneys, you can count on McNally and McKenna to keep digging.