From a new post about the Colorado family:
colorado jan 1976 lcn bios.jpg
Very interesting info that conflicts with previously available information.
It seems very unlikely that Clyde Smaldone was a captain, because of how few members there were and him being alienated from the family because of his issues with his brothers.
Notes
- Consigliere Joseph Salardino died in 1978.
- By March 1980 the hierarchy had shifted, with Captains Eugene and Clyde Smaldone identified as official Boss and Underboss respectively. Former Acting Boss Clarence Smaldone and four others (one already deceased) were listed as Soldiers. Included in this group was Paul Villano, who was named Consigliere by 1985.
Him being the underboss also seems improbable, given that Clyde was saying in the 1990s that his problems with Eugene were never resolved. Clarence was identified as being in the position by 1981 but was probably already the underboss shortly after the changes following James Spinuzzi's death.
Checkers being a captain is weird, outside of the limited membership issue. Who was naming Clarence to acting boss if he wasn't the boss? When Spinuzzi was in Pueblo County Jail for his gambling case, he didn't name any acting boss (at least not one that Joe Salardino mentioned to Bompensiero in August 1974) and the family membership did not change between these points.
Eugene Smaldone was seemingly out by the time Spinuzzi died and it is clear that he was the successor, though maybe he was still in Leavenworth as BOP records don't cover the 1970s and he had pled out to additional charges in October 1974. Maybe their source meant "capo" as boss and there was some confusion from that?
Also strange that Vincenzo Colletti is listed as the consigliere - Joe Salardino was IDing his brother Gus as being in the position less than 18 months earlier and we know Colletti had been inactive for several years. Joe replacing Gus under a Smaldone admin makes sense, given he was a Denver guy and close with that group.
Paul Villano eventually replaced him after he died, with the 1982 indictment identifying him as the consigliere but there is no clear date for that changeover. There is a 1984 report discussing the 1982 case where Villano is actually identified as a captain (not the consigliere) and I wonder if that's carried over from the 1970s when Salardino was still alive.
[url=https://lcnbios.blogspot.com/2024/07/colorado-chart-1976.html]From a new post[/url] about the Colorado family:
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Very interesting info that conflicts with previously available information.
It seems very unlikely that Clyde Smaldone was a captain, because of how few members there were and him being alienated from the family because of his issues with his brothers.
[quote]Notes
- Consigliere Joseph Salardino died in 1978.
- By March 1980 the hierarchy had shifted, with Captains Eugene and Clyde Smaldone identified as official Boss and Underboss respectively. Former Acting Boss Clarence Smaldone and four others (one already deceased) were listed as Soldiers. Included in this group was Paul Villano, who was named Consigliere by 1985.[/quote]
Him being the underboss also seems improbable, given that Clyde was saying in the 1990s that his problems with Eugene were never resolved. Clarence was identified as being in the position by 1981 but was probably already the underboss shortly after the changes following James Spinuzzi's death.
Checkers being a captain is weird, outside of the limited membership issue. Who was naming Clarence to acting boss if he wasn't the boss? When Spinuzzi was in Pueblo County Jail for his gambling case, he didn't name any acting boss (at least not one that Joe Salardino mentioned to Bompensiero in August 1974) and the family membership did not change between these points.
Eugene Smaldone was seemingly out by the time Spinuzzi died and it is clear that he was the successor, though maybe he was still in Leavenworth as BOP records don't cover the 1970s and he had pled out to additional charges in October 1974. Maybe their source meant "capo" as boss and there was some confusion from that?
Also strange that Vincenzo Colletti is listed as the consigliere - Joe Salardino was IDing his brother Gus as being in the position less than 18 months earlier and we know Colletti had been inactive for several years. Joe replacing Gus under a Smaldone admin makes sense, given he was a Denver guy and close with that group.
Paul Villano eventually replaced him after he died, with the 1982 indictment identifying him as the consigliere but there is no clear date for that changeover. There is a 1984 report discussing the 1982 case where Villano is actually identified as a captain (not the consigliere) and I wonder if that's carried over from the 1970s when Salardino was still alive.