Frank Deluca

Frank DeLuca (April 1, 1898 – May 1967) was an Italian-American mobster who helped control the smuggling and distribution of narcotics in Kansas City, Missouri, for almost four decades.

Born Francesco DeLuca in

, and murder for hire.

By the 1920s, the two brothers were involved with mobster

. He also had some legitimate business.

During the 1950s, at Senate Select Committee hearings on organized crime, known as the

, Frank and Joe were named as two of the "Five Iron Men" of Kansas City in 1952.

Death

Frank Deluca died in May, 1967.

Further reading

• United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce. Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951. [1]
• United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Profile of Organized Crime: Mid-Atlantic Region. 1984. [2]

External links

• The Five Iron Men Of Kansas City by Allan May
• The History of the Kansas City Family by Allan May
• Las Vegas Review Journal - Mob's LV clout doubtful by Jane Ann Morrison