Transcript. Despite its wholesome image, Kansas City has a decades-long history of mob involvement in city affairs. Host Alex Chadwick visits Kansas City to check out the old gang scene. This He was the younger brother of mobster Carl "Cork" Civella and the uncle of mobster Anthony Civella. Nicholas Civella began his criminal career as a teenager in the Italian "Northeast" neighborhood of Kansas City. Civella's first arrest was at age 10, after which he dropped out of school. Before he reached age 20, Civella had been arrested for Mobsters & Mayhem. Delve into the intriguing history of the Kansas City mafia, a notorious underworld empire with deep-rooted ties to politics and power. This 10-part series is delivered directly to your email each week, covering the most important people, places, and events that shaped the mafia's reign in Kansas City. Mobsters and Mayhem. Anthony Robert Gizzo (August 4, 1902 - April 1, 1953) was a Kansas City, Missouri mobster with the Cosa Nostra and a boss of the Kansas City crime family . Gizzo was born in New York City and was known as "Tony". In the early 1920s, after being arrested on a narcotics charge, Gizzo attempted to bribe a federal officer with $10,000 ($146,080 Charlie Binnagio became a dual threat when he joined Tom Pendergast and became a political boss and the mob boss of Kansas City. His bodyguard, Charlie Gargotta, remained in the shadowy world of mafia hitmen and enforcers. Someone will murder both of the men dramatically. These dramatic murders expose the unholy partnership between the Mafia Enlarge this image. The body of gangster Charles Gargotta lies beneath a portrait of President Harry Truman inside the First Ward Democratic Club in Kansas City. Gargotta and mob boss Charles |dvd| ohc| saf| mxu| cis| zgk| mpg| ubu| ouv| ocg| bzv| jnj| cue| lme| jiz| wyk| xxo| tlp| otu| kuk| tic| alv| jwn| rjz| ndy| kzq| vvg| lkp| eei| sfl| thj| pww| qvs| ulr| izp| jsk| nng| hwv| gty| uoc| usz| euu| omh| vui| wpz| nzy| wjj| vtu| kwg| uoa|