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Mafia controls Denver and John Hickenlooper -- if you believe our midnight tipster, that is

By Michael Roberts Tue., Aug. 31 2010 at 1:33 PM

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"Orders from Don Hick."

Here at Westword, we regularly receive news tips -- many legitimate and worthy of further investigation, others not so much. But few are as flat-out bizarre as this one, left on our tip line at 12:02 a.m. this morning:

"Uh, it's all good, but the Mafia runs Denver, and Hickenlooper knows all about it because he's involved. Thank you."

No: Thank you!

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