Interesting. Key sentence which ceased my concern about any sort of coverup was agreement made between reporter and others in group concerning O'Rourke's involvement: They wouldn’t confirm that it was this person unless I promised that I wouldn’t write about it until after the November election.
While on topic, I feel urge to confess that back in 1972 I hacked into my high school's Senior Class standing file. I didn't change any data but when our teacher discovered a fellow student accessing the data (I had told him how) my friend passed word that the teacher was ticked. Back in the day our school didn't actually have a computer, we wrote and submitted our programs trough a teletype connected to a computer in Cleveland. It was a fun class with very few students, something like 5 or 6.