Vincenzo "Black Jim" or "James" Coletti, Boss of the Pueblo LCN family from around 1953 until around 1972. As a result, in 1947 he identified a small mountain town called Central City which had been seeing a revitalization of tourism and seemed ripe for gambling. For inquiries, email me at:[emailprotected], 2023 The Members Only Podcast. Photo Credit: Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family. Clyde Smaldone leaves Leavenworth Prison in 1963. I knew a lot of them, but I cant remember their names. So lets talk about some of the key players. Our media is totally corrupt. A A mafia history podcast that digs deep into the true-crime biographies of real-life mobsters with focus on the plots, sub-plots, and real facts behind Cosa Nostra, as well as movies and televison. Not a good look. Over the years, hed work with the Smaldones and members of his family to maintain a tight grip over underworld rackets including gambling, narcotics distribution, illegal alcohol sales, as well as rackets related to juke-box and coin-machines. If you want to read more on the Colorado mob, I have two books that I highly recommend. Clarence "Chauncey" Smaldone (left) poses with Clyde Smaldone (center). Man, 25, critically ill in hospital after serious assault on Elgin High or debate this issue live on our message boards. 09. Heres what Clydes son Check was able to recalled years later as told in the book Smaldone: The Untold Story of An American Crime Family: He had different pockets, different accounts. But you wont find them there anymore; the three brothers passed away over the last two decades, and the family sold Gaetanos six years ago. Clyde Smaldone (left) and Eugene "Checkers" Smaldone (right) walking together in 1955 after U.S. Supreme Court reversed their convictions for jury-tampering. By this time, it was regularly noted by the FBI that the semi-retired Clyde and Checkers were feuding, which certainly didnt help the family operations in their efforts to present a united front to combat the increased law enforcement scrutiny that they were facing. Within declassified law enforcement documents, my research almost always referred to the Smaldones using the words Suspected LCN rather than official LCN (which was used to describe some of their true Mafia associates). They returned to the Roma home after word got around that Mrs. Roma had found her husbands body at 1:45 p.m. and then voluntarily went to police headquarters. His runners would be none other than his sons, Clyde and Checkers. Clyde by that point was entering his teens and Eugene Checkers Smaldone was not far behind during the early days of Prohibition. If this is indeed true, it would certainly fit with the mob tradition of ordering a friend to kill a friend. First, a woman who knew Checkers told police she saw men tampering with the car just before the explosion, and then there was a patrolman whod told investigators that hed observed Clyde making a call from a neighborhood phone booth just minutes before the bomb went off. Now, lets step back out for just a second and give a brief background on the Smaldone brothers, and just how they fit into the overall picture by the early 1930s. The state would enact Prohibition and go dry in 1916, a full three years ahead of the Volstead Act which was enacted nationally in 1919. The Possible Penalties for a Conviction of the Colorado Crime of Stalking 18-3-602 are Serious. Worst Places to Live in Colorado A family of four who vanished months ago has been located, according to the Newton, Illinois, Police Department.