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The Pittsburgh crime family, [4] also known as the LaRocca crime family [5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The LaRocca family is one of the original twenty-six Mafia families in the United States. [ 7 ]
John Sebastian LaRocca (May 1, 1901 – December 3, 1984) was the Sicilian-born American boss of the Pittsburgh crime family from the 1950s until his death in 1984. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life
The Bufalino crime family, [2] also known as the Pittston crime family, [3] the Scranton Wilkes-Barre crime family, [3] the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, [4] the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, [5] [6] or the Scranton Mafia, [7] was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Pittston.
Michael James Genovese (April 9, 1919 – October 31, 2006) was an alleged boss of the Pittsburgh crime family.References to Michael Genovese as the brother of New York mob boss Vito Genovese [1] are to a different Michael Genovese; Michael James Genovese was first cousin to Vito Genovese.
The American Mafia, [23] [24] [25] commonly referred to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, [23] [24] [25] is a highly organized Italian-American criminal society and organized crime group.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Post-Gazette; GettyIt was March 17, 1982—St. Patrick’s Day—and James Powers was in the middle of his shift at the Purolator armored ...
La Torre paid for the passage of Mafia boss Santo Volpe to Pennsylvania in 1906. They formed "the men from Montedoro". [ 4 ] In April 1907, La Torre was arrested with Santo Volpe, Charles Bufalino, uncle of future crime boss Russell Bufalino , [ 1 ] and twenty other men for a protection racket against mine workers in the region.
Founded in the 1960s, the gang's name stems from a street corner that intersects 10th Street and Oregon Avenue in South Philadelphia. [1] The 10th & Oregon Crew conducts drug trafficking, gambling, extortion and loan sharking rackets and operates from a series of taverns, bars, restaurants and social clubs in South Philadelphia and South Jersey. [1]