Nick Civella and the Chicago Outfit Segment 3

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this third and final segment, we learn about Nick Civella, Carl “Tuffy” DeLuna and their relationship with Joseph “Joey Doves” Aiuppa and the Chicago Outfit. Nick Civella teamed up with the Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland Mobs to influence a 62 million dollar Teamster’s Pension Fund loan and finance a man named Allen Glick to buy the Stardust, Hacienda, Frontier and Marina hotel/casinos. This is the situation that Martin Scorsese used to create his fictional film, Casino. Tuffy and Nick go to Chicago to work out details and set the details of how they would skim money as a payback for getting Glick the loan. Once Lefty Rosenthal gets the skim started, it goes to Chicago and Chicago sends a percentage back to Milwaukee, Cleveland and Kansas City. In FBI wiretaps, we hear Tuffy and Nick discussing if Nick should call Lefty Rosenthal directly or should he get permission from Chicago Outfit bosses first.

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0:42.7	And now, here's Gary Jenkins.
0:45.5	Well, welcome back, folks.
0:46.7	This is segment three of the Chicago Mob and the Kansas City Mob and how they became connected
0:52.7	and what they have done together. And tonight,
0:55.6	we're going to talk about the kind of the ultimate, the culmination of their efforts that
1:00.7	really paid off big time for a period of time, but also led to their downfall. It's kind of
1:06.4	interesting. I have with me here tonight, of course, my good friend, Aaron, say hello, Aaron.
1:11.2	Hello, Aaron.
1:13.2	And our good friend, Bill Owsley's here tonight. Say hello, Bill.
1:18.0	Yeah, good evening. Glad to be here.
1:20.1	And, you know, Bill is a retired FBI who has written two books about the Mafia in Kansas City,
1:26.5	and he goes into a lot of this
1:27.7	connection with Chicago and those books it's so the first book is Open City and the
1:32.8	second book say a little bit about your second book Bill Mops in our midst yeah
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