The whole thing stinks. The predominance of thought from the wise posters who I trust here at FR, who have followed this story much more than I have, suggest that the husband may be a RAT! I don't know, but I do usually trust the great number of very wise posters at FR.
Yes, MRS may be a rat, but he is a registered Pinellas County Republican too. He works for a Republican official; so did his late potential mother-in-law, Eleanor Centonze.