
'Las Vegas Pete’ Simone, Kansas City mobster who helped run gambling empire, dies at 79
Peter “Las Vegas Pete” Simone, reputed Kansas City Mafia underboss, gambling kingpin and unindicted co-conspirator in a 1990 mob hit has died. He was 79. Simone died last Thursday, two days shy of his 80th birthday, from lung cancer. “Pete spent his 80 …