First, thanks for the info you have provided. Second, as I said before, I don't doubt there are still members, as well as associates, active in Kansas City. Though there doesn't seem to be much evidence of the formally structured family you describe beyond a few charts floating around on the internet. A poster on another board did some research on the names and at least most of them are mob-related guys in Kansas City. However, it's been a long time since any kind of an official chart has been put out by the feds or any kind of a structure has been alluded to in news articles. Just the odd guy here or there being identified as a member or related to past members.

Are you sure Calia was busted for drugs recently? The last one I'm aware of was back in the early 1990's. The Tivol Jewels robbery was 13 years ago now. The murder Mandacina was convicted for happened 20 years ago and he had been appealing it for years since. It appears Charles Cammisano was killed by his ex-wife over domestic disputes. I believe the Palmenteres sold their trucking and vending business back in the mid-1990's and they aren't listed as officials or anything with IBT Local 41. Peter Ribaste was put on the Nevada gaming exclusion list back in the late 1990's, around the time of his conviction for tax evasion. I believe Bazookas is owned by Dick Snow, though a competing club called the Shady Lady is owned by Joe Spinello and has mob ties. Civella's sons were involved in the porn business in California about 20 years ago. I don't know about now. There is no family left in Denver to work with. Obviously the billing company the Gambinos were using had nothing to do with the mob in Kansas City. Again, the only recent conterfeit merchandise bust I can find is this one - http://www.justice.gov/usao/mow/news2010/luna.ind.htm - and it involved over $48,000 in goods, not $400,000. Of the two guys involved, one of them (Brent Luna) could be Italian but he's only 25 and I doubt he's a made guy, if he's connected at all.

Like I said, there are obviously still members and associates in Kansas City. But a formally structured, viable family? Doubtful. And I'd be willing to bet the number of remaining members there 10 or 12. Maybe 15 at most. Basically guys who are obstensibly legitimate, as well as others who are involved in the mob staple of gambling and maybe some side action with drugs, robberies, etc.

Comments by ex-law enforcement after the recent gambling bust sums things up.

"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.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/11/90229/out-of-the-mob-past-of-kansas.html


William Ouseley, a retired FBI agent who has written about organized crime in Kansas City, says that recent indictments do not signal that La Cosa Nostra is making a comeback. During the Q&A portion, Ouseley was asked about the Mafia's current state. Ouseley, who spent 21 years investigating organized crime, downplayed the recent breakup of an illegal sports betting operation. "There are wannabes out there," he said.
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/04/form...of_wannabes.php