The Smaldone Brothersīrothers Clyde, Eugene and Clarence Smaldone reigned in Denver from the 1940s to the late 1980s. Although small in stature, Roma’s reach was large and powerful, and historians refer to him as one of the most ruthless mob bosses in Denver history. He ran his smuggling, kidnapping, narcotic kingdom from a small grocery store on Quivas Street. With lives seeped in assassinations, arson, smuggling and undercover FBI agents, Pete and Sam Carlino’s lives were destined to end violently, which they did.Īfter the Carlino Brothers fell, fellow bootlegger Joseph Roma rose to replace the two as the mighty head of Denver’s criminal world. They controlled most of southern Colorado's liquor market and became the kingpins of a liquor empire by the 1930s. The Carlino Brothers ran one heck of a bootlegging operation in the 1920s. It turns out that Denver had its fair share of mob activity back in the day.
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