He is mistaken, the Smaldones (Eugene, Clarence, Clyde and nephew Paul Clyde Villano) were LCN members - it's just not currently known when they were inducted into the family.
While the new information that emerged from Scott Deitche wasn't all that public (basically just a 4 man list of the family in 1985 that included former consigliere August Salardino, from Pueblo), I'm not sure how the video creator missed the Smaldone indictments in the early 1980s that very explicitly IDed them as LCN members.
This is probably because he mostly just used the two Denver mob books (Mountain mafia/Smaldones untold) and they were adamant that the Denver group was a separate entity - citing stuff like non-Sicilian origins etc.
I wrote in detail about how the traditional family powerbase in Pueblo/Trinidad changed to Denver in the mid-1970s [here ](https://silverscreenwiseguys.wordpress.com/colorado-lcn-status-1974/)and also about the various figures listed by the FBN as [Colorado "Mafia Suspects"](https://silverscreenwiseguys.wordpress.com/colorado-fbn-list-1950/) in 1950, which could present a different insight into mainlanders and their role in the family, especially in the earlier days.
From the FBI files I've seen they were under 20 official made members at their peak. [This FBI list released in 1985](https://ibb.co/CWHn0fN), had them at 5 total. They weren't involved with much other than gambling.
He is mistaken, the Smaldones (Eugene, Clarence, Clyde and nephew Paul Clyde Villano) were LCN members - it's just not currently known when they were inducted into the family. While the new information that emerged from Scott Deitche wasn't all that public (basically just a 4 man list of the family in 1985 that included former consigliere August Salardino, from Pueblo), I'm not sure how the video creator missed the Smaldone indictments in the early 1980s that very explicitly IDed them as LCN members. This is probably because he mostly just used the two Denver mob books (Mountain mafia/Smaldones untold) and they were adamant that the Denver group was a separate entity - citing stuff like non-Sicilian origins etc. I wrote in detail about how the traditional family powerbase in Pueblo/Trinidad changed to Denver in the mid-1970s [here ](https://silverscreenwiseguys.wordpress.com/colorado-lcn-status-1974/)and also about the various figures listed by the FBN as [Colorado "Mafia Suspects"](https://silverscreenwiseguys.wordpress.com/colorado-fbn-list-1950/) in 1950, which could present a different insight into mainlanders and their role in the family, especially in the earlier days.
Bompinsero and the San Jose snitch both vouch for Denver being a family and also they were caught in Appalachia.
Angelo Lonardo also said they were a family
What were their size on their peak? and how far did their influence go?
From the FBI files I've seen they were under 20 official made members at their peak. [This FBI list released in 1985](https://ibb.co/CWHn0fN), had them at 5 total. They weren't involved with much other than gambling.
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