well mafia families liked to keep low profiles generally

Gentrification at ITS FINEST

I took an ancestry test and a couple of these names popped up as distant ancestors/relatives

Hey I lived in Deertrail in the 40s.

Dr. Claw of Outpost 69 the food is nasty now....

Hickenlooper bought Gaetano's??? What a f***head

Italian food to die for !

Now its owned by History Colorado or some other guy. They havebulletproof glass there

later John Hickenlooper now owns the restaurant

Still are. Just on a much smaller scale these days.

Vcom: Please spell their name right, it only has one L.

@Corrado Soprano Jr You have no idea what you're talking about, and that's just how they like it.

@@DrClawofOutpost69 i mean no disrespect, I’m just genuinely curious as to how you know that? Seems dead to me

beridini😊

When ya got busted the first time? Lol..There were more I'm guessing? I'm curious, what are Cheroot's?

That’s a great story

@@tonyedwards2064 I only got busted once. I retired after the first one. Cheroots are small hand rolled cone shaped cigars.

The only reason alcohol was banned is because automobiles could run off it. Corn based alcohol.

Thank you

If prohibition was wrong the fact that marijuana is illegal federally is wrong

yes

Well.. saying that prohibition was wrong, is kinna like saying making Herion illegal was wrong as well..After all, it was legal at one time..Shit it was sold as cough suppressant at one time ..With that being said, do you feel the same about Herion today?

@@tonyedwards2064 all substances can be used safely without fear of detrimental effects to one’s health. Only problem is you have idiots who go to the extreme. Still all substances should be legal.

cop blocker the mobsters are all dead or in jail

The police judges and PA,s are still the same breed

City country council over

The old guys are dead, but remember they were also fathers and by now great grandfather's. For some, It's just in their blood.

Preach!

Did they have a place on federal back in the 60'&70 some kind of place to eat?

The Denver mob were school hard bullies compared to the families on the east coast and Chicago. They ran their cities over there and had the power and influence to do what they want. From government officials to the police. Denver was a cow town and the Smalldones simply took advantage of the absence of competition. They bullied their way to being a B level mob and the only reason why they thrived was because they kept everything low key and citizen friendly. They never got into big time drugs or anything close to getting on the feds watch list.

They were Mafia not Cosa Nostra, big difference...paid tribute to Pueblo

@jacksonjoe9724 they didn't play tribute to Pueblo. The Carlinos were not in power when the Smaldones were running the show here. There's a FBI family breakdown on the wall in the men's room in Gaetanos in Denver. They also have a picture of it at the butchers I go to in South West Denver. I've read both the Carlinos book, and Smaldone book multiple times, as well as had family members involved. What's funny is they have Joe Bonnanos picture on the colorado families fbi breakdown, they had him in the southern faction. The Carlinos were close with Maranzano in New York

We are living in hell with all these mobsters, and corrupt criminal politicians and corrupt capitalistic, corporations, businesses, this is how the greedy monsters on Earth suck the life out of people. It's sad there's too many of us innocent decent people suffering over 50% of the elite rich are evil....👹👹👹👿😈😈 And what gets me is I don't understand this women marrying mobsters corrupt politicians. I wouldn't marry a corrupt woman or hang out with corrupt person.... Why even bring a child to this evil world. Trump, Mitch McConnell, William Barr, 👹👹👹👿👿

@greenmean1 why you say that?

greenmean1 they where business partners of Al Capone don’t act tough cuz these guys definitely did more dirty than you could ever imagine

@greenmean1 first mistake..asking for proof..

Juan Lopez the top 1% has more money than the rest 99% put together

Right

He was in this programme a lot.

he was Clyde's son and he is shown talking a lot in this video.

@@MomCat6000 Gene was my bus driver for Summer Fun Day Camp in, oh, maybe 58 or 59? Really nice guy...

Police FBI CA CIA are always on the take

Lol funded by the police museum maybe they thought they would donate some ancient illicit funds

@@CarlosMorales-xl7xd you forgetting the most notoriously on the take agency. Drug enforcement

I do remember the nuns coming into the jail to get money from one of them

So your a detective?Sound like a real dick to me!

Yep, democRats were also the kkk. They were criminals and still are. Our government absorbed the mafia, just like the hells angels absorbed the brothers fast.

@@mk-lr8ok Well put!

+Andrew Smaldone Very interesting, I am very well read on this subject and never heard on Smaldones. Would love to read more.

wasnt just about location,actually it kinda is because the area they were in didnt have as many lucrative rackets as the more populous cities and their lack of wealth and influence prob has more to do with ppl not being familiar with them,not saying they were poor,just saying not as lucrative as the outfit,the five families and the philly family

+Jp Jourden same goes with the patriarca and buffalino families(which both happen to be east coast families)

I was a child when my uncle was involved with this group of men - it is rather disconcerting to see his name and photo amongst the others.

We’re out east, too.

I'm in Clarksburg WV right now..And they have a small Italian area..lol..Now that I would have never imagined..but after seeing this place it made sense..Lots of sandstone Quarry's, Rock used for building, an we all know the reputation the Italians had when it came to constructing with masonry.

All y'all is lame. stay out the dirty D.

It was weak!

Pueblo too!

Most were Sicilian, big difference from Italian..

@@andreahicks967 yes, my father's cousin, Charlie Blanda, (Re: Mountain Mafia) Book is called Organized crime in the Rockies Mountain Mafia..very interesting!! All of what I know, is my great grandmother was Sicilian ( my father's grandma) and my father's cousin was Charles(Charlie) Blanda, but where he moved from before Pueblo, I'm really not sure..

@@KM-wf9yx Pueblo was the main hub.

Me either. I would have figured Kansas City or SF would be the closest cities with an Italian presence.

Matt Man Productions. Perhaps in the days before heavy street drugs. But not after.

Matt Man Productions. I agree

T B is that why he was never around and absent from your life?

Ted bundy escaped from jail here and killed multiple girls Father day bank massacre happened here .jack graham Gilbert first person to blow up plane for insurance. Alfred Packer was a cannibal

Could you provide the source for this info?

@@THE303CITY Google Anthony "Tony G" Giordano, Giordano Crime Family, St. Louis Crime Family. You'll find a few different mob sites that make mention of it. I think I read the "running Denver" thing from a link to an old article out of the now- defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper. They were the Smaldone Family in Denver. Not a very big or powerful family, but Cosa Nostra nonetheless, so Giordano was given charge over them. At it's height, St. Louis had probably 100 made guys in the family, give or take a crew's worth. Giordano worked well w/The Civella Family outta KC, obviously, even though St. Louis used to belong to KC til Giordano declared independence, they worked well w/the Chicago Outfit, & they had very strong ties w/the Detroit Partnership too. Giordano was also allied w/"Horseshoe" Jimmy Michaels & the Syrian Mob in St. Louis. St. Louis has a rich organized crime history, for better or worse.

So im not gonna say those articles are wrong, or that he didn't have influence here, but I don't think he ran things be any stretch of the imagination for a few reasons. The first feeling Colorado went dry I believe 4 years before the prohibition act was enacted. So in Colorado, nobody ran bootlegging here but people from here. The next reason is Colorado had 2 crime families at that time. One was in Puebo, ran by the Carlino, the other in Denver ran by Joe Roma. At the end, they realized blood was bad for business, the Carlinos moved to Denver, and became "allies" of sorts. Joe Roma bailed Carlino out of jail actually. The next reason is the Smaldones dealt direct through Al Capone in Chicago, and Clyde Smaldone was one of the last people to see Capone in Florida, they were very close. Clyde said he got Canadian whiskey for $66 a case, Capone got it for $35. They had their routes through Iowa, but I forget what city. Denver would vote through Chicago in commission matters. Southern Colorado was much closer to New York, specifically Salvaotore Marzano himself. In Carlinos book they show a news paper article, or something that actually mentions he Carlino stayed in an apartment building where Maranzano had his family. Colorado is a underrated mob state. I'm getting my info from Dick Krecks book called Smadone, the book written by Sam Carlinos grandson I believe, court records, and word of mouth from the family members i have that knew/grew up with them. I know Denver was close to KC (I always mess this name up, but Charloe Binnaggio, I know the last name isn't right, but he got arrested on gun charges ), Capone, Carlos Marcelo in LA, and Vito Genovese, among others.

@@matthewrider6456 I deleted the picture, but if you can find a picture of the FBI Colorado crime family, Joe Bonnano is pictured as a member of their southern faction. Check the book on the Carlinos, and one by Dick Kreck on the Smaldones. We use to go get fireworks out of the basement of my friend grandma who was one of them, it was awesome

@@THE303CITY Did you get a chance to read the link to the article I posted above? It's pretty clear: Tony G was a Midwestern Cosa Nostra legend, & the Commission made him the boss of Colorado. The determination of the MO Organized Crime Task Force.

@greenmean1 - You are brave now, but I would have loved for you to utter such foolery back in the day to their faces? You would have been erased from history...

It really is

@greenmean1 😂😂😂💯

+BadTurbulence ??

Lies

lyssa much respect to you n your family

Did you mean crooks??

I had always thought that the elder Gene was my godfather at my confirmation. But i think it was the younger who was. My stepdad was Sante Alonzi, who's mugshot is on the bathroom wall of Gaetano's. Spent a lot of time at that restaurant as a kid

That's named after the card game lol

Yes everyone has always been interested in your gastro favourites,I mean your so interesting why wouldn't know?

I knew that. And i also knew that youre a peice

Wah wah. Cry me a river.

We do not care

Oh cmon, I can name alot of other shit one could do to his Family other then drinking or gambling..You have to remember, not EVERY guy that gambled or drank did it to excess!! And these guys had nothing to do with prostitution ,murder for hire or alot of other violent crimes..pretty much the reason they didn't make any real money if you ask me, lol

Yeah this is about the colorado mafia, not broken homes.

@@jeffwilliams3224 All I said is it’s not victimless, but alcohol is a drug and gambling is an addiction. Just facts , I’ve never seen where prostitution is that bad of a crime, why do they go after them so much? Plus you never really know if they told you the whole truth of the story, the winner is the one who gets to write the history. Always able to listen to both sides of a story and figure out what sounds true to me.

I see where you are coming from but staunch support through obedience to criminal codes formulated to maintain the status of the establishment- class, or the "power-elite," through oppressing the lower classes should be disregarded; in my mind, at a greater extent to which they are followed. The black-market is simply a natural recourse of BS arbitrarily designed policy. Sure, profit is the motive more than likely, but the social benefits usually allow for the labeling of a hero or two to come to pass. Thank God for renegades.

Rah, rah, rah, suck some plums.

North denver?

@JP McCray I never said the people were bad just certain Italian neighborhoods.

@JP McCray They pour in only from 3rd world countries.

BOMB LEGACY no offense but the Irish where the first slaves here bro the Irish & Italians were discriminated against just as worse as blacks when they got here so it wasn’t just the blacks that got messed over it’s just the Irish and Italians got up an worked there ass off to make without blaming everyone I’m not racist at all I’m just sayin please don’t take it that way

BOMB LEGACY LOL WHERE IN THIS VIDEO DID THEY SAY THEY WERE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO COME UP? THEY WEREN'T GIVING THE CHANCE TO COME UP THEY CAME UP ON THEIR OWN.

Robert Gomez Irish were not slaves they were indentured servants, They did not come here chained to the bottom of ships, Irish were made Honorary white people just like Italians did at one point.

@@robertgomez7178 the irish werent slaves ,where did you hear or read this ?

But if you really listen to what was going on. The blacks were Treated way better then us "inbred grease balls."

Grandma Smaldone was quite a dish !

Pontoon.

It was always twenty one blackjack! What do you mean?

They would have families of 8 or 9 kids. Only a few had 5 kids.

LOL!!! I specifically mentioned how many made men to avoid confusion..

They weren't made men. They weren't a Mafia Family, but did associate with the Mafia that ran out of Pueblo. Some of the Pueblo bosses were Charlie Blanda, James Colletti and Joseph "Scotty" Spinuzzi.

Frodojack The Smaldones were definitely made men in the Colorando crime family, they went back 3 generations. It started with their grandfather Ralph and then their uncles and father.. You can check it out on this site: mafiamembershipcharts.blogspot.nl/search/label/Colorado

Mr. Brown I now the author of that site. I have helped him with some of his information, but it doesn't mean everything on it is accurate. Even he will admit that.

Because they GAVE BACK to the community and did Help others.

Watch the Video and it tells you.

JoRolle Nola Because they are white. The Narcos build hospitals, nursing homes, invest in local businesses, but to white people they're just Mexican drug dealers

Because they did not deal in drugs and prostitution but in the vices such as bootlegging and gambling that were considered by most people as ok.

Dana, have u ever heard of Freeway Rick Ross? He was a drug dealer in Los Angelos that actually purchased homes in his neighborhood for the poor in his community so they wouldn't have to be evicted. He also made regular grocery store trips to feed the homeless and under norished. So other than the dirt these people dealt in, so I ask u what really is the difference between the 2? There is only one real reason I can think of. Some folks don't mind glamourizing crime depending on who is the peratrator.

ChaseGreenGGT sir am a Mexican n is a lot better if they leave us alone

My Mexican family is from Southern Colorado and the Black Hand loved them and the helped they provided so what is the real reason you feel the need to speak?

DominusLuna finaly someone that doesnt buy the bullshit

Yeah well I wouldn’t even have been born had the smaldones not stopped a known rapist and future serial killer from picking up my mother after her shift waitressing at their Italian restaurant (Gaetanos). That walk home from work could have been her last if not for the smaldones pulse on the neighborhood of North Denver (Northside). My Nonno (great grandfather) used to tell me stories of the smaldones buying milk and bread for everyone in the neighborhood and that went on for years as well. They were truly ambassadors to the weak and weary. So before you speak at least know your history.

So there like politicians?