I was invited to do a Facebook Live interview with KC Star reporter, Ian Cummings. This is called the Beer Hour and we met at the craft beer joint called the Kansas City Bier Company. I talk about my career in the KCPD Intelligence Unit working with the FBI to investigate the “River Quay Mob War” […]
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I did an audio podcast on this investigation. For those that don’t do the podcast, here is a written version of this story. You may wonder what happened after the River Quay area died out. As Chuck Haddix said, after the bombing of the building housing Judge Roy Beans and Pat O’Briens night clubs, customers
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Here is a story I have not told. Not really about the Mafia, but about the River Quay. Back in 1972-73 a few of us started working for the River Quay Merchants Association. Ray Karnes, Doug Perry and I all were young police officers working out of Central Patrol. Somebody, Ray Karnes I think, made
Do you have a service club or other organization that invites dinner or meeting speakers? I have developed a power point supported program to entertain and educate your group about Kansas City Mafia activities, the story of the River Quay, Las Vegas skimming, or the Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit. I can tailor this program
I have not said much about the River Quay development. The first 1/2 of Gangland Wire tells the story of how this entertainment district developed. A man named Marion Trozzolo (click on his name to see the book he wrote) had a business in the City Market area. He saw all these great substantial unused brick
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
Gangland Wire starts in an unusual place. In 1971, a local businessman named Marion Trozollo had an idea to revitalize a blighted area close to downtown. At that time, city dwellers were fleeing to the suburbs and downtown was losing businesses and population. Mr. Trozollo envisioned a French Quarter or Greenwich village type of district
