Our prediction on the McNeilly/Regan situation – Acting city Solicitor George Specter will resign or retire, Ravenstahl will continue to blame the O'Connor administration and the city will settle with McNeilly prompting her to retire immediately afterwards.
The Ravenstahl puppetmasterers will easily sacrifice one lawyer to keep their golden Pinnochio bright, shiny and electable.
Our hope is that since KDKA and the Post-Gazette tenaciously continues to follow this story, the public won't let Opie get away with it. He's knee deep in the funk of politics as usual.
My reading of Specter is totally different. To me, he sounded like he was trying to back away from his own investigation as far as possible, in order to keep himself employable in the future, without actually declaring mutiny. I'm not sure it'll work, but I don't think he wants to get lashed in with the posse that's getting savaged all over the internets.