KC Confidential

Curiouser and curiouser…

On the heels of not hearing back for several days from a jeweler rumored to be under investigation by authorities, intrepid reporter Paul Wilson was dispatched this afternoon to the offices of said jeweler in an to attempt to set the record straight…one way or another.

Here’s what Wilson found.

“I went by the building the jeweler occupies,” Wilson says. “And there was a sign on the window of the office suite door apologizing for being closed and saying they’ll be back Monday.”

There’s more. Continue reading →

The temperature seems to be rising on the scion of a legendary KC jeweler…

Rapidly. And while – as we’ve explored here – anything’s possible as far as a bust timetable is concerned should stories making the rounds prove true – increasingly the feeling is that this thing may be about to burst wide open…one way or another. There are just too many people in the local news media who’ve begun sniffing about for this story.

And still the jeweler in question is not returning my calls nor answering his telephone.

Meanwhile area police and justice department officials appear to be under increasing media pressure to make a move if there’s one to be made and release the story.

One local jeweler says he’s heard it involves “Internet drug purchases and previously missing pieces of jewelry from prominent local families.” Continue reading →

Not so fast, Sherlock…

The odds of a Kansas City jeweler getting off the hook by cutting a deal with the Feds with no publicity whatsoever: in a word, slim.

So says two-time convicted felon and former special agent to the Kansas attorney general Craig Glazer, who as they say, has been there, done that. Even were the jeweler in question a first time offender, he’s still almost certain to spend some slam time along with a heaping helping of local news headlines to wash it down with, Glazer says.

Here’s how it works. Continue reading →

It’s a sexy story that could generate dramatic, bold headlines…

It’s also a tale that could retreat into the shadows of urban legend where only insiders ever fully knew and understood what really happened. Because when it comes to high crimes like drug and diamond smuggling, anything can happen.

Mum’s the word today among law enforcement officials contacted about the reported pending bust of a local jeweler. Documents have yet to be filed and everyone contacted – from Kansas City Police to the Department of Justice – say no news is no news. And that unless or until charges are actually unsealed and filed, they can neither confirm nor deny.

Here’s another possibility. Continue reading →

This just in…

I’m going to continue to play this one close, but a prominent society matron emailed me this morning – out of the blue – and dropped the exact name of the rumored local jeweler said to be under investigation for smuggling drugs and diamonds. If true this will be the biggest Kansas City scandal of the new millennium to date.

Check it: Continue reading →

Future KU multi millionaire Andrew Wiggins

The poor play of the University of Kansas football team is starting to cause difficulties for the school’s vaunted basketball program.

Take the smackdown of KU’s so-called Fieldhouse Apartments.

The outlandishly expensive, $17.5 million dollar apartment complex represents a failed recruitment tool schmooze for KU basketball coach Bill Self.

“Housing, where our student-athletes reside now, is way, way, way, way behind what the competitors would be housing their student-athletes in, in a big way,” Self has stated. “In order for us to maintain and even exceed what we’ve been doing, there are certain things that have to be done…Bells and whistles are very, very important…It’s for the benefit, and certainly for the development, of the student-athletes.”

However a Kansas Legistlative Committee shot down KU athletics request for financing.

The reason why? Continue reading →