I'd argue it could be damage control, he might be just happy to be rid of babs and doesn't want this story dragging on and doesn't want to come across as Mike Commodore
Who does what babs did to Marner? it's like high school girls, and 1 girl has stolen another girl's diary and shares it with the other catty girls, it's really darn gay and there's no chance for anything good to come from it, to me babs sounds like a stuffed up individual