“Fat Paulie” Villano, one of the last surviving members of the reputed Smaldone crime family in north Denver, labored on in the family crime vineyard, getting arrested periodically on minor bookmaking and loan-sharking charges. He once was busted conducting business in a phone booth across the street from Gaetano’s (a Smalldone-owned restaurant) and promptly ate the betting slips.
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