Word: nadjari
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...safe while sorting out their complex affairs, the cops hauled them back to New York, in creased their bail ($190,000), and when they could not pay, tossed them in jail to sweat things out. Sure enough, they sweated. At length, Kuhn sent word to Assistant District Attorney Maurice Nadjari: perhaps it might be possible to locate some of the gems...
Blabbing Hackie. With the understanding that the accused men would get reduced sentences for their cooperation, Kuhn was permitted to return to Miami with Nadjari and four detectives. It was to be a secret mission -but it turned into a public and fantastic chase...
...jewels, the reporters followed. From motel to motel the gem seekers fled. From motel to motel followed the reporters, some of them keeping contact by walkie-talkies. Twice, Kuhn and his police escorts leaped 20 ft. from the window of a motel room to evade their pursuers. Another time, Nadjari and Kuhn tried to get away from the press in a cab, paid the driver an extra $20 to keep his mouth shut; the hackie promptly appeared on a local TV show, blabbing his story...
...while, Kuhn was trying, through a series of 50 telephone calls, to persuade or cajole some mysterious, disembodied voices to come up with the jewels. Whether those voices belonged to accomplices, fences, intermediaries-or maybe even talking porpoises-only Kuhn knew. Still, nothing seemed to jell. Nadjari once got a tip that sent him racing to a boat yard, where he struggled into swim trunks, mask and fins for a session of skin-diving. He found nothing but sea cockles, mussels and seaweed...