anybody knows the in 1933 deceased Salvatore Calderone is the old boss calderone??



Pittsburgh capo mafia Luigi Lamendola
Pittsburgh capo mafia Luigi Lamendola imported seven Chicago gunmen under whom Jack Palmere. Other Lamendola men were Giuseppe Spinelli (real name Phillip Spallino) aka "Little Joe" aka “Big Mike” and Antonio "Toto" Amarosa aka “Toto” Argenti


Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero
Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero was suspected in the 20 May 1927 murder of Luigi “Big Gorilla” Lamendola who was shot and killed in front of his Chatham Street Restaurant and wounded was his friend Pete Curatola (he was later killed).


Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero VS Pangallo
in September 1927was Giuseppe “Joe the Ghost” Pangallo wounded when his car was blown up (suspect Mike Russo from NY at orders of Monastero).


Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero VS Pangallo
While Giuseppe “Joe the Ghost” Pangallo was in hospital his cousin Joseph Gorilla (of Cleveland) came to visit Pangallo but was near the hospital shot and wounded


Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero VS Pangallo
10 January 1928 was Joseph Luciasano (32 of 80 Norton Street, Mount Washington) shot and killed in the shoe repair shop of the Pangallo brothers at 643 Braodway Avenue, Stowe township. It is the wrong one because the killers had wanted to murder Giuseppe “Joe the Ghost” Pangallo


10 January 1928 was also bootlegger John Daniels (24) shot and killed in a car


Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero VS Pangallo
21 May 1928 was Giuseppe “Joe the Ghost” Pangallo shot and wounded in his car. It was the third attempt on his life and police arrested as suspects Larry Chiocca (Chicora) (27), Kate Drago, Domenica Finetta (40), Nick Uipon (34) and Frank Sero (37)


Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero VS Pangallo
Johnnie Daniels was shot and killed in 1928 because he was a friend of rebel Joe “The Ghost” Pangallo


Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero VS Pangallo
Dominic Caputo was killed in 1928 because he was a friend of rebel Joe “The Ghost” Pangallo. Dominic Caputo had left a letter which accused Mike Russo of the murders of Dantti, Michiele, Domenico Grillo and Dominic Caputo himself


Pittsburgh bootlegger Morris Curran
1 August 1929 a bomb was placed under Penn Avenue racketeer Morris Curran his building at 1233-35 Penn Avenue, and did heavy damage. Two persons were seriously injured.


Pittsburgh North Side capo mafia Stefano Monastero (40 or 46) killed
Stefano Monastero was 6 August 1929 shot and killed by Joe “The Ghost” Pangallo (46) (McKees Rocks racket baron who a few weeks earlier had went to homicide detective chief David Corbett, deceased, and asked him permission to bring in murderers to kill Monastero and Corbett sends him away). Stefano Monastero was visiting his man Charles Spallino who had been operated at St John’s Hospital Northside and his brother Sam Monastero just escaped with their bodyguards Angelo Stella (23 from Youngstown), Louis Leone and Greilla Ciarino (Clarino) (40). Stefano Monastero was followed up by Siragusa, who made a fortune supplying beer makers with yeast, his rackets were controlled by Salvatore Maranzano of New York. Joe Bonanno of New York fame became Maranzano's apprentice, supervising his whiskey stills in Pennsylvania. Like many bosses in smaller cities, Siragusa made tribute payments to Maranzano.
Pittsburgh capo mafia Joseph Siragusa


Sam Monastero goddaughter Josephine Campisi (21) was also questioned


Carlo “Charles” Sparlino, Michael Bua (arrested in 1918 for murder and his brother in law was Anthony Chiavetta), Michael Russo and Frank Adrana were spoken free of the murder of Stefano Monastero


Pittsburgh based Chiavetta family from Trabia (Palermo)
Brothers Anthony Chiavetta (a shoemaker who arrived in 1914 in Carnegie, Pittsburgh and married Mary Elizabeth Bisesi) and Leonard Chiavetta. Michael Chiavetta and wife Antonina Bua (sister of Michael Bua??) had as son Giovanni Chiavetta


Giordano (Jordan) family
The Jordan's ( name changed from Giordano) has a very prosperous banana and fruit wholesale business the tri-states area of w.Pa, W.Va., and Ohio. They still have a wholesale business in Dravosburg ,Pa.


Pittsburgh
McKees Rocks racket baron Joe “The Ghost” Pangallo died in February or early March 1930 of pneumonia


Pittsburgh
Stefano Monastero his brother Sam Monastero was found strangled to death 18 March 1930 and was Pittsburgh’s 77th gangster victim


Violet Ewart (27)
In June 1931 Penn township speakeasy owner Frank Gazzo shot and killed Albert Kesley (of Canton) in a quarrel about the woman Violet Ewart (27)


Pittsburgh bootlegger Morris Curran killed
Penn Avenue racketeer (Pittsburgh) Morris Curran was killed 24 June 1931 and accused was Chicago Milwaukee mobster Angelo La mantia (36)


Angelo La Mantia
23 may 1931 was frank Aiello (35) shot and killed in his house. Angelo La Mantia was charged with the murder.

Angelo La Mantia
15 october 1931 was Angelo La Mantia indicted with 3 others for the slaying of two gangsters in Pittsburgh. Philip Spaldino (from Pittsburgh) was indicted for the murder of Antonio Argento who was strangled and burned near Turtle Creek. Cimo Romano aka Anthony La mantia and Angelo La Mantia aka Joseph Rizzo were indicted in the murder of Morris Curran who was shot to death 24 june 1931.

Angelo La Mantia aka Joseph Rizzo
Angelo La Mantia aka Joseph Rizzo was arrested in October 1939 in Philadelphia for a robbery in Camden (NJ).


Pittsburgh capo mafia Joseph Siragusa killed
13 September 1931 Joseph Siragusa (49), a bootlegger known as the "Yeast Baron" of Allegheny County, walks into the main room of his house basement and finds himself facing three men with guns. Five bullets rip into his chest and face.


Pittsburgh boss J Bazzano
John Bazzano sr (son John Bazzano Jr.) became the new boss. John Bazzano Sr. worked as a theater manager, then built an empire by controlling sugar and yeast for beer makers.


Pittsburgh
Jack Palmere (35) was owner of the Locust Auto Repair Company in Locust street where he stored beer and whisky and was killed 7 October 1931 when he was talking with Joe Colleli.


Toto Amaraso fled to Turtle Creek where he and Palmere operated a still on the third floor of a building at 644 Church Avenue. He warned Leonard Ciscerone, 21, and Leonard's brother, Alphonse, 17, to admit no one, and tried to sleep.


Just 18 hours later was the body of his partner Antonio "Toto" Argenti (Argeno) (Saverio Amaraso) found in a burning car. Police suspect their partner (Philip Spallino 28) Giuseppe "Little Joe" Spinelli (of 134 Middle Street, Wilmerding


Policeman Ferris said he had found that Palmere and Toto were themselves murderers. He said they had killed James Courtney, an alcohol cooker at one of their stills, to silence him when he refused two years ago to kill a rival racket man at their command.


Violet Ewart (27)
16 December 1931 would Joseph Virgo (34) marry Josephine Merola (24) but the day before his face was disfigured when somebody threw acid in his face and police suspect his former girlfriend Violet Ewart (27)


Pittsburgh capo mafia Gianni “John” Bazzano Sr. orders murder of Wilmerding based Volpe brothers
Pittsburg boss Gianni “John” Bazzano had agreed to take on the Volpes as his partners, and they used the Roma Coffee Shop on Wylie Avenue, which Bazzano owned, as their headquarters. But when the brothers expanded their territory into East Liberty and the North Side, Bazzano ordered them rubbed out. 29 July 1932 gunmen led by Giuseppe “big Mike” Spinelli pulled up to the coffee shop and opened fire. John Volpe was shot four times on the sidewalk. Inside the shop, a spray of bullets struck Arthur Volpe as he ate a bowl of corn flakes. James (Jimmy) Volpe died trying to hide behind the counter.


In Pittsburgh the 3 Volpe brothers were killed by 3 associates of Nicola Gentile at the orders of Pittsburgh capo mafia John Bazzano Sr (his brother in law is Frank Zappala).


Salvatore Calderone?????
Giuseppe Landolina (born 16 May 1894 in Trabia and died 24 March 1988 in Pittsburgh) who married Maria Anna Calderone in Pittsburgh in 1932. He was the son of Nicosio Landolina (brother of Cosimo). She was the daughter of Salvatore Calderone, born 1858 in Termini Imerese and died in near Pittsburgh in 1933.


Pittsburgh
the October 1933 ice pick murder of John Aliberti (his girlfriend was Viola Morin and his chauffeur was Ralph Girdano (Giordano) a man of the Volpe brothers


Timeline courtesy of "Puparo"