“Your grandfather was the biggest bootlegger in Colorado … they shot him up,” the man said.
Growing up, Carlino was told that his grandfather had died of pneumonia. Carlino presented details from the book during a book-signing Saturday at the Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library.Īfter recognizing the Carlino family’s sausage recipe, the elderly man proceeded to recall the day Carlino’s grandfather was murdered. “Colorado’s Carlino Brothers: A Bootlegging Empire” details the involvement of Carlino’s grandfather, Pete, and Pete’s brother Sam, in bootlegging liquor between Southern Colorado and Denver during the Prohibition era. He proceeded to tell me how he had known my grandfather during Prohibition,” Carlino wrote in his book “Colorado’s Carlino Brothers: A Bootlegging Empire.” “This stranger told me how he had known my grandfather, my dad and of my uncles and how he had worked for my grandfather during Prohibition.” “He immediately asked if I was a Carlino, and as I said yes. Sam Carlino knew nothing of his grandfather Pete’s involvement in organized crime in Pueblo until 1985 while working at his family’s Italian sausage stand in San Jose, Calif.Īn elderly man took a sample and immediately recognized the recipe.
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