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Klu Klux Klan Part 3

• July 1, 2015
• Tagged as: American Nazi Party, kkk, Klu Klux Klan, racist, racist skinheads, Skinheads, White Knights, white power

These three episodes became very topical just as I recorded them. In a free society, we have to protect the worst of us under the law. Democracy is not neat and clean and sometimes not…

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Klu Klux Klan Part 2

• July 1, 2015
• Tagged as: American Nazi Party, kkk, Klu Klux Klan, racists skinhead, white power

The conundrum in a free society, where does free speech pass from protected to censored? In the recent killings by white power advocate, Dylann Roof,  folks are stirred to anger by the image of Roof…

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Klu Klux Klan Part 1

• June 25, 2015
• Tagged as: kkk, Klu Klux Klan, National Socialist party, racist skinheads, white aryan resistance, White Knights, white power

Starting with Episode 8, I am inserting a photo we took of the Klan members we targeted and arrested in this Intelligence Unit investigation. Episode 8 was Dennis Mahon, the Imperial Dragon of all the…

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Episode 7 The Bowery

• June 19, 2015

We have new opening and closing segments with local music from Odd-O-Matic, a new independent group with an electro-punk beat with hip-hop undertones. Search for them on Facebook and like their page. To purchase their music…

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Nick Civella prison conversation

• June 4, 2015
• Tagged as: audio intercept, central states pension fund, dorfman, james hoffa, joseph aiuppa, la cosa nostra, listening device, teamster's union, wiretap

Here is an audio clip from a hidden microphone placed in the visiting area at Leavenworth Prison. Nick Civella is serving his 3 year term from an earlier gambling conviction. This was after the Las…

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Casino

• April 13, 2015
• Tagged as: audio intercept, casino, Casino the movie, central states pension fund, chicago outfit, civella, dorfman, f.b.i., glick, kansas city police, la cosa nostra, lefty rosenthal, listening device, nick civella, organized crime, rosenthal, spilotro, teamster's union, title 3, wiretap

I have not addressed the “elephant in the room” much, if at all. As most of you know, in the film, Casino, Producer Martin Scorsese and writer Nick Pileggi tell about the Las Vegas casino…

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Episode 6 Wrap Up

• April 8, 2015
• Tagged as: Carl Spero, civella, kansas city police, kkk, Klu Klux Klan, la cosa nostra, organized crime, spero

I am researching the next exciting story right now.  In 1990, the Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit conducted an investigation into Kansas City Klu Klux Klan activities. Now, listen below to a short wrap up of…

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Episode 5 Take-down

• April 3, 2015
• Tagged as: Carl Spero, Joe spero, Kansas city, kansas city police, nick civella, organized crime

This is the exciting conclusion where the informant, Lyle Neal, finally is shown the actual bomb and gets to watch Joe Spero test the bomb remote control detonator.

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Episode 4 The bomb

• April 3, 2015
• Tagged as: Carl DeLuna, Carl Spero, Carl Tuffy DeLuna, f.b.i., Joe spero, kansas city police, la cosa nostra

In this episode, I tell about the Civellas working on their Las Vegas skim while Joe Spero makes his first attempt to kill Tuffy DeLuna. This may have been better titled as the gang that…

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Episode 3 Informants

• April 3, 2015
• Tagged as: Carl DeLuna, Carl Spero, Joe spero, nick civella

In this episode I tell about the development of some informants. For example, one guy had worked for a mob owned used car lot and auto repair garage. He had been able to listen through…