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Dec 19, 2022 · Known as the "Two Tonys," Tony Trombino and Tony Brancato were two gangsters out of Kansas City who later connected in the Los Angeles underworld and became partners in crime there. But then, they robbed the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas — which happened to be under mob control.
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Two mobsters meet a messy end on the boulevard of broken dreams. They were known as the Two Tonys—Brancato and Trombino, a pair of wild mobsters out of Kansas City. In May 1951 they robbed the cash room at the mob-controlled Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
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On August 6, 1951, Brancato and Trombino were found shot to death in the front seat of a car on Ogden Drive near Hollywood Boulevard. Though many mobsters were arrested, phony alibis allowed all of them to escape punishment.
Photograph caption dated August 7, 1951 reads "Gangland bullets last night blasted out the lives of two underworld figures--Tony Brancato, 36, black arrow, and Tony Trombino, 31, white arrow.
Anthony Trombino, also from Kansas City, became Brancato's partner in crime and they became known as "the two Tonys." After robbing the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, the men became wanted by the mob and the FBI.
