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Re: Kenji Article-Denver and Los Angeles
[Re: JJChicago]
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12/07/15 03:31 PM
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http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4602277The Smaldones ruled a gambling empire from 1933 to the 1990s that at its height, police said, made the family an estimated $25 million a year. But by the 1990s the principals were growing old. Checkers, 81, died March 17, 1992; Clyde, 91, on Jan. 7, 1998; and Villano, 76, on Nov. 12, 2003. When the older brothers semi- retired, Chauncey and Villano took over the gambling operations. They could often be seen together at the back table at Gaetano's, until the government decreed that they couldn't be in the restaurant at the same time because neither was allowed to consort with felons. None of the Smaldones recruited their children to join the family business. They were, said one family friend, off-limits, thanks to their mothers. TODAY There are no LCN in Colorado but if you heart of criminals with an italian surname in denver this is a different things.
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Re: Kenji Article-Denver and Los Angeles
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12/07/15 11:09 PM
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Admit it or not, everyone here thinks they are fascinating and cool. Deep down inside, most wouldn't mind living that life if we could get away with it without being murdered or dying in prison. Probably not killing people, but who doesn't envy the easy money, power, respect, and women? That's what attracted most mobsters to the life. The reality if the life keeps most same people away.
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Re: Kenji Article-Denver and Los Angeles
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12/08/15 12:45 AM
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Why do you find them so fascinating? There must be something about them that you find appealing. The first time you started reading about this, wasn't there a part of you that thought this stuff was cool? If you truly despised the mob and you found them to be nothing more scumbags and thugs with no moral compass then you probably wouldn't spend all day talking about them, now would you? It doesn't make any sense. First, I don't spend all day talking about them. Second, people can study serial killers without thinking they are cool. Same for the mob. I find the mob as a whole more fascinating than individual mobsters. I'm sorry if you can't wrap your head around it but you need to stop projecting yourself and why you like the mob on others. Admit it or not, everyone here thinks they are fascinating and cool. Deep down inside, most wouldn't mind living that life if we could get away with it without being murdered or dying in prison. Probably not killing people, but who doesn't envy the easy money, power, respect, and women? That's what attracted most mobsters to the life. The reality if the life keeps most same people away. Again, fascinating yes. Cool, no.
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Re: Kenji Article-Denver and Los Angeles
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12/09/15 03:27 AM
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but you only go off what you can find online? your only taking educated guesses. For all we know denver would be a real powerhouse....thats what im trying to say. There's no smoke without fire...but there's no fire without smoke either. And to me the air around Denver seems to be quite smokeless. Hey weeds legal here so the air in denver is definitily not smokeless!! lol
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