On the surface that looks good -- but what does this mean? Did she never break eye contact and watch this man's every move or in the course of envents was the mayor otherwise occupied (On the phone) and giving orders to her subordiates allowing yon pilferer the oportunity to remove a few documents -- here and there
Have you ever had a stack of water logged documents to go through? I have, and let me give you a hint they don't shuffle.
If they were in the river were the papers soaking wet if so he would have had to carefully seperate and lay out each page one at a time to see what was in the wet heap.
A quick look at wet papers could easily take 15 - 20 minutes -- during which time a few documents could easily disappear
In other words I think we need more info before giving this guy the no foul no harm thumbs up.
Don't recall the pay for an 03 allowing that kind of lifestyle -- Far be it for me to suggest this man wasn't on the up and up -- I'm only mentioning he seems to have a whole lotta cash to spend.