My friend author Nick Pileggi helped me as much as he could, in spite of his agent, in making this film. He had agreed to sit for an interview, but got called off by his agent and his new TV show, Vegas. He asked to view it. He said about the film, “In Gangland Wire, […]
At age 32, a real estate developer named Allen Glick was getting into the casino and hotel business in Las Vegas. He found that making a deal with the Midwest Mafia families got him a 62 million dollar Teamster’s loan. He bought the Stardust hotel and casino. Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal was installed by the Chicago
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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
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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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
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Gangland Wire tells the real story behind the book and film, Casino. The film’s Director, Gary Jenkins, was an Intelligence Unit detective with the Kansas City Police Department. It is not often that a documentary filmmaker is a participant in the events documented. He starts with a local mob squabble that escalates into several murders
The Chicago Outfit has its roots in Sicily as with other La Cosa Nosta (LCN) style organized crime organizations of La Familia. As with the New York based LCN families, the old world Mustache Petes were usurped by the younger mobsters in the 1920s. Al Capone and Prohibition brought national attention to the Chicago family. Capone made
The origins of the Kansas City Crime Family, known better on the street as the “Outfit,” date back to the early part of the 20th Century. A small band of immigrant Italian/Sicilian predators, operating in the Little Italy north end section of the city, coalesced, organized and united during prohibition to become an organized crime
