We sat down to talk with Gary Jenkins, who is a retired Kansas City Police Detective, lawyer, as well as the host of the extremely popular mob podcast, Gangland Wire. In this episode, we discuss the following topics:
- His early years, family, and upbringing
- What made him want to join the Kansas City Police Department
- His promotion to Detective within the KCPD
- The composition of the Kansas City Mafia in the 1970's
- The key players in the Kansas City Mafia including Nick Civella, Carl "Cork" Civella, and Carl "Tuffy" De Luna
- His many stories of surveilling the Kansas City Cosa Nostra family
- Kansas City's involvement in the Las Vegas skim
- His work surveilling and the wiretaps related to the Las Vegas skim
- Comparisons of real life versus the movie Casino
- Bringing down the Kansas City mob
- The Spero-Civella war in the late 1970's and early 1980's
- Retiring and becoming a lawyer for 20 years
- Starting and running his popular podcast, Gangland Wire
Links to Gary's documentaries, podcast, website, and YouTube channel:
1) Brothers Against Brothers: The Spero-Civella War: https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-against-Civella-Spero-War/dp/B081ZHB17X 2) Gary's Website: https://ganglandwire.com/ 3) Gary's Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gangland-wire/id984020877 https://open.spotify.com/show/1kGMUAUanWOv3UAbW4RVPk 4) Gary's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdoYdPBGwXdsQGkvX4yovvQPopular Podcasts
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