The Star reported federal prosecutors believed Peter Simone ran much of the mob's day-to-day operations in Kansas City.

Simone held the underboss spot for 30 years, and ran the Civella crime family’s vast gambling empire in the 1970s.

These kind of stories were very popular back when the public memory of old world gangsters was more relevant . . . Now the ...

Gary Jenkins, an ex-Kansas City police detective ... Jenkins, who became a detective in 1978, helped the FBI monitor the mafia men. Today he recounts all his harrowing mob tales on his podcast ...

But one time, the River Market was known as the River Quay and it was ground zero for a war between rival factions of the Kansas City Mafia. In 1971, Rockhurst University professor and ...

Gary Jenkins, a former Kansas City police officer ... Cork and Tuffy had some awareness that they were being watched, said mafia documentarian Terence O’Malley. Clearly, though, they were ...