THE BLACK HAND FORUM

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(Rubs eyes) Huh...what?

[quote="Antiliar"]Lazia wasn't Kansas City's first boss. We don't know who the first one was, but it could have been the earliest one who we know anything about, Paolo DiGiovanni, who died in 1929 of natural causes. His younger brother Joe's photo is often seen showing him with a severely burned and disfigured face from a still explosion.[/quote]

DiGiovanni clan ran KC until Pendergast came to power in City Hall. At that time They (as in Pendergast) needed someone who could pull the votes from what is refered to as the NorthEnd. Lazia, was with DiGiovanni's approval, installed as the public face and political arm of the family. The Sicilians still had the real control and it would remain that way until Gizzo's death, and Civella became the first American born Sicilian to take control of the family.

Lazia wasn't Kansas City's first boss. We don't know who the first one was, but it could have been the earliest one who we know anything about, Paolo DiGiovanni, who died in 1929 of natural causes. His younger brother Joe's photo is often seen showing him with a severely burned and disfigured face from a still explosion.

MAFIA HIT LIST – TOP KANSAS CITY MOB MURDERS

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1 John (Brother Johnny) Lazia – Kansas City’s late Prohibition Era mafia chief and first LCN don, Lazia was killed in the early-morning hours of July 10, 1934 by machine-gun wielding assailants as he exited a vehicle driven by his underboss and best friend Charles (Charlie the Wop) Carrollo outside his house after a night on the town. Lazia was K.C’s first gangster celebrity and was a mainstay in the city’s newspaper headlines and trendy nightclubs. Later in his life, Brother Johnny feuded with a former lieutenant of his named, Michael (Jimmy Needles) La Capra, who went to the area’s giant political machine for support in overthrowing Lazia. As he lay dying in Kansas City’s St. Joseph’s Hospital, Lazia is alleged to have told an attending physician, “Doc, what I can’t understand is why anybody would want to do this to me, Johnny Lazia, someone who’s been a friend to everybody?” Some speculated that Carrollo sold-out Lazia to La Capra, the suspected gunmen, so he could eventually assume power, which he did (arranging for La Capra’s banishment from KC and subsequent slaying) .

Read more: http://gangsterreport.com/the-hit-list-kansas-city/

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