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"Kansas City's colorful history of organized crime is chronicled for the first time in a feature-length documentary film opening March 20, 2009, on the thirty-seventh anniversary of The Godfather s premier in Kansas City. The Black Hand era from 1900 to the early 1920s was primarily Sicilian upon Sicilian extortion and was the beginning of Italian organized crime in Kansas City. 'Strawman' is the code name assigned by the FBI in the 1970s and 1980s to the investigation and prosecution of the skimming of casinos in Las Vegas by what was then known as The Outfit, Kansas City s Mafia Family led by the cunning Nick Civella".