Pittsburgh crime family

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The Pittsburgh crime family, also known as the LaRocca crime family or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area. The organization formed during the late 1880s under Salvatore "Banana King" Catanzaro and was named after Sebastian "Big John" LaRocca, the family's longest-serving boss, from 1956 until his death in 1984. The Pittsburgh family rose to prominence during the Prohibition era under the leadership of Stefano Monastero, who became boss in 1925, by controlling a large distribution operation of bootlegging supplies from warehouses on Pittsburgh's North Side. Monastero's leadership was cut short on August 6, 1929, he and his brother Sam were murdered. The family was taken over by Giuseppe "Joseph" Siragusa, a successful local bootlegger, who paid tribute to New York Mafia boss Salvatore Maranzano in order to operate in Allegheny County. Siragusa was murdered on September 13, 1931, as...

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