I reported recently about fellow Intelligence Unit detective Bobby Arnold finding that Jimmy Duardi was making unescorted trips into Kansas City from the prison at Leavenworth. He was released shortly after. We had an informant tell us that he was meeting people and making criminal connections at a used car lot located at Gregory and …
Photos of many of the people in the Grove Oklahoma investigation. I recommend former FBI Agent Bill Ouseley’s book, Mobsters in our Midst to learn more.
Jimmy Duardi was the nephew of a made man named Gaetano “Tanno” Lococo. He had “made his bones” by the 1960s and after a cooling off period in California, Jimmy was back in Kansas City. He was a big (6’2′ 275 lbs.) man with a big dominating personality. It appears that he was given the …
Gangland Wire illustrates some funny situations showing how inept these mob guys really can be. One was in the area of telephone codes. One that did not get in the film follows. The film, Casino, failed to show the dumb things done by the mob guys. Gangland wire has a bunch of them. Tuffy …
Gaetano Lococo was known as one of the “5 Iron Men” in Kansas City La Cosa Nostra history. He started as an enforcer for a 1930s Kansas City political boss named Johnny Lazia. In the famous 1950s Kefauver hearings on Organized Crime, Senator Kefauver described “Tano” Lococo as “Lococo was a mousy, insignificant, bespectacled little …
Joseph “Joey the Clown” Lombardo came up the usual way in Chicago organized crime. As a young man he was a bold and clever thief gravitating to high end items like jewelry and because of his toughness he was a collector of “juice” loans. Lombardo was actually nicknamed Lumpy because of his ability to put …
A mafia interest blog contacted me about posting article about Gangland Wire.I have been getting a lot of interest from other mob interest websites.I believe I will do a radio interview on October 31, with North Carolina station. Getting ready to go to Las Vegas for Mob-Con 2013 l hear there was an article in …
I just put up a new clip on You Tube. Click here to see it or go to the Kansas City Mafia in the banner on the front page.
Nick Civella returned from Chicago and he became the driver for Tony Gizzo, the Kansas City Boss. This was a promotion in La Cosa Nostra hierarchy. To those in the know, Nick was being groomed for the job of boss job. He had one big job. Two mob members named Charlie Gargotta and Charlie Binnagio …
One hidden microphone in the Villa Capri restaurant in Kansas City led to wiretaps and hidden microphones in Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Chicago and 19 separate wires in Kansas City. In Chicago, agents developed probable cause to place a tap on a telephone in the office of Allen Dorfman. They soon learned that Chicago Mob Caporegime …
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