- Pittsburgh Crime Bosses
The Pittsburgh area ItalianSicilian underworld was fragmented through the Prohibition Era. The South and North Sides of the city were dominated by a Sicilian Mafia presence, while the East End was held by a Neapolitan Camorra group. The central Hill ...
http://www.onewal.com/maf-b-pi.html
| | - Mafia long history
He and his wife moved to Pittsburgh in 1933, where he set up a beer equipment and concrete block business in Oakland. In the next decade, he gained control of the numbers rackets in Homewood and elsewhere. He was arrested and convicted several times ...
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20001106mobhistory2.asp
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- Genovese Obituary
Hed been identified as one of the Pittsburgh familys three representatives at the infamous mob conference in Apalachin, N.Y., in 1957, and refused to testify about it before the U.S. Senate Rackets Committee.He also went to jail in the 1970s for refu ...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06306/734941-122.stm
| | - Obituary Pittsburgh
The son of a Pittsburgh Mafia godfather, he ran his own lucrative gambling empire in North Braddock for years, managing to avoid the lockup and, for the most part, staying out of the media spotlight.And shortly after the 1990 Pittsburgh mob trial tha ...
http://www.post-gazette.org/obituaries/20031107amatoobit4p4.asp
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