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 …
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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One hidden microphone in the Villa Capri restaurant in Kansas City led to wiretaps and hidden microphones in Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Chicago and 19 separate wires in Kansas City. In Chicago, agents developed probable cause to place a tap on a telephone in the office of Allen Dorfman. They soon learned that Chicago Mob Caporegime …
Joseph “Joey the Clown” Lombardo – Chicago Mafia Read More »
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 …
Mario Puzo took from real life in his novel, The Godfather. In New York City younger Sicilian immigrants were seeing their fathers victimized by the old fashioned “Mustache Petes” by the Black Hand organization. The young guys  were also being kept out of the more lucrative rackets. They struck back eventually. In 1940s Kansas City, a …
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 âOutfit,â 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 …
