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James S. “Jimmy” Duardi

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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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James S. “Jimmy” Duardi

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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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