The Mafia in Colorado
Gangland Wire
Gary Jenkins
4.6 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The conversation explores the violent labor struggles surrounding the Ludlow Massacre and the role of powerful figures like John D. Rockefeller, as well as the diverse immigrant communities that shaped Colorado’s mining towns. Stasi challenges stereotypes about Italians in America, highlighting their roles as workers, ranchers, and community builders—not just mobsters. Â
Jenkins and Stasi also discuss Prohibition-era bootlegging and the early roots of organized crime in places like Pueblo, weaving together documented history with deeply personal family stories of survival, violence, and resilience. Drawing on her background as a journalist, Stasi reflects on loss, perseverance, and the immigrant pursuit of the American dream, making The Descendants both a historical narrative and an emotional family legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey, all you wiretappers out there, glad to be back here in studio, Gangland Wire. |
| 0:04.7 | This is Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, and I have an interview for you. |
| 0:11.7 | This is going to be a historical fiction author. |
| 0:16.9 | This is going to be a historical fiction book by a writer whose family lived the life of, |
| 0:25.9 | whose family, this is going to, this is going to be a, this, this book is going to, we're going to talk about a book. |
| 0:32.6 | We're going to talk with an author about the book. |
| 0:34.4 | We're going to talk with the author, Linda Stasi. |
| 0:37.0 | We're going to talk with the author at Linda Stasi. We're going to talk with the author and Linda Stacey about her book, The Descendants. |
| 0:42.0 | Now, she wrote a historical fiction, but it's based on her actual family's history from |
| 0:50.6 | Sicily to New York to the wild west of Colorado. Now, get that. You never heard of |
| 0:59.3 | many Italians out west in Colorado, but she's going to tell us a lot more about that and how |
| 1:05.2 | they were actually ended up being part of the Pueblo, Colorado Mafia, the Corvino family, and then got |
| 1:14.4 | involved in bootlegging, and then later were involved in ranching and different things like |
| 1:19.5 | that. So it's a little different take on the mob in the United States that we usually get, |
| 1:24.9 | but I like to do things that are a little bit different. So, so welcome, Linda Stacey. |
| 1:28.9 | Historical fiction, how much of it is true? |
| 1:31.1 | Is it from family stories or? |
| 1:33.3 | All the stories are true. |
| 1:34.5 | I'll ask you that here in a little bit. |
| 1:36.1 | Okay, all the stories are true. |
| 1:37.6 | All the stories are true. |
| 1:41.7 | It's based on not only stories that were told to me by my mother and her sisters and my uncles and so forth, |
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