Some excerpts from an article in the Kansas City Star after the gambling bust -

"What’s accused here is exactly what Kansas City mob figures were convicted of a generation ago," said retired FBI agent Jeff Lanza. "However, on its face, it doesn’t represent a resurgence of the Kansas City mob to anything near what they were in our city’s past."

"All of the assets that made the mob what it was — the Teamsters union, political connections and ties to other families — are all gone," Ouseley said. "Whatever’s left doesn’t have access to the power sources that the Civella group had."

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