Reputed Kansas City mob boss Anthony Civella dies
Anthony Civella, who US federal investigators said headed organised crime in Kansas City in the late 1980s and 1990s, has died, a funeral home said. He was 75.
Passantino Brothers Funeral Home said it was handling the arrangements, but did not have information on when or where Civella died.
Civella, whose nickname was “Tony Ripe,” was the nephew of Nick Civella, the reputed leader of the Kansas City mob in Missouri when it allegedly worked with other organised crime families in Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland in schemes to skim money from Las Vegas casinos.
After his father and other reputed Kansas City mobsters went to prison, Civella was reported to have moved up to the leadership.
In 1991, he and two associates were convicted of fraud related to the resale of prescription drugs. They were accused of having bought more than $1m (€842,000) worth of drugs at deep discounts, claiming they were intended for nursing homes, then reselling them to wholesalers on the West Coast.
After his release from prison in 1996, Civella was barred from entering casinos in Missouri and Nevada.
