Nick Civella attended the famous 1957 Mob meeting where La Cosa Nostra bosses from all the major families met to decide major differences within the 5 families in New York City and to set the direction for the entire country. One thing decided was that mob families would no longer participate in international heroin distribution. […]
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Nick Civella and Carl “Tuffy” DeLuna discuss a Wall Street Journal story about Joey Aiuppa and Tony Spilotro expanding the Chicago Family to Las Vegas. Nick is not happy with the publicity. Get your own valid XHTML YouTube embed code
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
