 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein. Please remember to like, subscribe and share OG pod wherever you are. Let people let us know what you guys think and let people know that we're we're out here reporting on American gangland news every day, whether it be on Gangster Report, our companion web magazine or here at the OG pod on YouTube. Today we're going to do a quick hitter and we're going to go out to the heartland Kansas City, Missouri. And we're going to talk about some elderly gentlemen getting into some fisticuffs allegedly word is that in the days or week before Christmas, Kansas City mob underboss reputed mob underboss Peter Simone aka Las Vegas Pete got into a physical altercation at a Kansas City restaurant called Cascones. A lot of people saw this take place. I was getting calls pretty quickly right after it and there were some other made guys I'm told that were at the restaurant that night might have been involved in this altercation. I'm told that the boss of the Kansas City mafia, the longtime boss, Johnny Joe, John Shortino, had to chime in and that Johnny Joe had a meeting at some point in the last week and called some of these people that were involved in this alleged altercation and admonished them for putting their hands on his underboss Las Vegas Pete. Regardless of whose fault it was, you are not allowed to touch a made guy, let alone a guy in the administration. Pete and Johnny Joe are guys that go back 50 plus years. They go back to the original surveillance and the surveillance crime. Guys that are serious individuals have been unindicted co-conspirators and suspects and ganglion slain. Guys that are well respected both in Kansas City outside of the mafia there as well as in a number of other mafia hotbeds around the country. They will respect and authority. Who knows what the fallout will be from this? I heard that there were people drinking and some things were said that maybe shouldn't have been said and some people lost their head. But again, you're talking about a 78-year-old man, Pete Simone, Las Vegas Pete, that has been a staple in Kansas City for a long time. Whether he was in the wrong or not, when you're a wise guy, when you're an underboss, you're not in the wrong in terms of there's certain etiquette and rules or protocols that just can't be broken. It looks like Johnny Joe let people know that in Kansas City. People are going to ask what's left of the Kansas City Mafia. It's not anything that resembles what it did when Nixonville was running things when that family was an underrated powerhouse outside of the five families. Right now it's a small organization made up of a handful of OGs that control mostly gambling and loan sharking. Younger guys do some drugs, but not a lot of those guys are, if any of those guys are made. You probably have 10 made guys there, a lot of dozen made guys, and that might be being pretty, could be overshooting it. But there is a structure there who knows what the family will look like in 10 years if it will exist 20 years from now. But right now it exists and you got OGs that are running it. And Las Vegas Pete found himself, I'm sure not unlike wise guys, gangsters around the country. It happens. We've heard the stories and we've read the stories. Arguments happen, squabbles happen. Oftentimes they happen in public. And in this case, that's what happened in Kansas City at Cascones. So I just wanted to report, let you guys know that there was some holiday fireworks out in Kansas City and that Johnny Joe laid down the wall in terms of how you're supposed to behave as a wise guy, whether you're talking about Kansas City or New York City or Chicago, Philadelphia. It's all pretty uniform. So happy holidays to everyone in Kansas City. Please like, subscribe, and share for OG Pod. I'm Scott Bernstein.