Ahead Kansas City's last Super Bowl 50 years ago, everyone in town was betting on the Chiefs. Nick Civella, the longtime boss of the local mafia, scrambled to find a way to even out betting — and gave the FBI its first big break against the group. (kcur)
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson turns around to hand the ball off to running back Mike Garrett during the Super Bowl IV football game in New Orleans.In their last Super Bowl appearance half a century ago, the Kansas City Chiefs achieved an upset in more ways than one.
Bookies care about profits, so odds makers are always looking to balance the bets: 50% for one team and 50% for the other. That’s why points are given to the underdog. Mob gambling profits come from something called the vigorish or, in mob shorthand, “the vig.” It’s a 10% surcharge tacked onto the losing bets. If you make a $100 bet and lose, you owe your mob bookie $110. But in this case it was Civella who was concerned about losing his shirt.
Eventually, in 1977, Civella was convicted of illegal gambling and sentenced to prison – although he secured an early medical discharge after he was diagnosed with cancer. That paroxysm of violence eventually led to extortion convictions for William “Willie the Rat” Cammisano and his brother Joseph Cammisano. Around the same time, Civella, who was just emerging from prison, took the reins again as head of the Kansas City syndicate.
As a result, Civella, his brother Carl, mob member Carl DeLuna and nine other mob figures were indicted in 1981 on charges of skimming cash from the Tropicana casino. They were convicted in 1983, the same year a new indictment was handed up naming 15 organized crime defendants in a scheme to skim money from the Stardust casino.
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