[wishfish]

There's been some interesting updates to the story.

The Marion Record was in the process of investigating the Marion police chief. He used to work for the Kansas City (MO) PD. Allegedly, he was demoted for "sexual misconduct" before he quit and came to work for Marion.

This reveal comes in an interview of the Marion Record's publisher. It's an interesting read and he's an interesting guy. One of the old school reporters, in a very good way.

https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the...

The other new development is the Kansas Bureau of Investigation revealed they were part of building the case against the newspaper. KBI didn't participate in the raid, but were otherwise working with the Marion police.

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/13/kbi-director-on-mario...

[mannykannot]

The KBI might now be wondering if the Marion police chief was being entirely forthcoming about what was going on when he sought their assistance.

[dmix]

I was curious if seriousness of it was related to the restaurant hosting the Kansas congressman at the time (which the journos were kicked out of then wrote a follow up story about the restaurant owner). Maybe whoever invited him had some connection to both the politician and the owner, and the congressman helped kick it upstairs? This is just speculation though.