contacts within the Gravelle family (including a contract to kill police inspector Rick Wills, who was investigating the Gravelles), was a suspect in the investigation and had his phones tapped during the investigation. While awaiting his murder trial, he ran a home renovation business until he was unable to secure a bank loan to cover business expenses. After closing the business he supported himself by working as a used car salesman. The police tried to trick Pat Musitano into naming Croitoru as the killer by starting a rumor that Paul Gravelle was accusing Musitano of being behind the murder of the Gilbanks, a ploy that did not work. After an investigation that lasted six years and cost $6 million, police laid charges against Croitoru and Andre Gravelle. Croitoru was charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder. After spending seven months in prison, Croitoru was released on $100,000 bail. He was arrested on December 2, 2005, for violating his bail terms, and police filed another extortion charge against him. Evidence against Croitoru and Gravelle was presented over the course of eight weeks in 2006, but the judge stated that the case against the two accused was not strong. A key witness for the Crown was a British immigrant and a professional lip-reader who had been paid $20,000 dollars to decipher what Croitoru was saying in a videotape of him talking in a restaurant. During the trial, it was revealed that before she came to Canada, she had been convicted of perjury in her native Britain. Furthermore, it was revealed that she had overstated her abilities as a test showed that she was only able to decipher 55% of the words being spoken by people right in front of her. As a result, the judge in the trial excluded her as a witness and ordered the jury to disregard her testimony. Without the transcript provided by the lip reader of what Croitoru was alleged to be saying, the Crown's case was fatally weakened. Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant withdrew the charges on June 12, 2006. Following this action by the attorney general, both Croitoru and Andre Gravelle announced plans to file lawsuits against people involved with the prosecution. Gravelle sued for $25 million, and Croitoru sought $15 million for wrongful imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Hamilton Police Services was ordered to pay Gravelle $10,000