Fellas any insight on pittsburgh mob activities in Morgantown,WV? Past or present... I read by other posters LaRocca set up operations with some casinos in wheeling and other spots and chucky porter had some wv rackets going on I believe
Stricly curious bc I graduated from WVU in mo-town...thanks guys
To my knowledge, no Pittsburgh mob activities in Morgantown. Jo Jo Pecora oversaw all the WV rackets and appointed Paul "No Legs" Hankish as his chief lieutenant for many years. Paul was Lebanese but was very close to Joseph"Demus" Covello of the Gambino's New Jersey Faction. Demus was godfather to one of Paul's daughters and Joey Naples from Youngstown was godfather to his son Chris, who just died about 4-5 years ago. Paul ran gambling in 8 states and laid off to Demus in New Jersey as well as Louie Mannocchio in Rhode Island.
Is the Wheeling-Unis-Covello pipeline still intact?
Frank Unis Jr is still operating a major book in Beaver County, PA. He was just arrested back in 2008 for shooting a guy. Covello is dead and Wheeling operations came to a a screeching halt with the 1990 trial of Paul Hankish and his top lieutenants. Wheeling was big from the 1920's-1980's, many illegal casinos and lots of steel workers who gambled...when the 1980's came and steel factories shut down, population got diverse and the area severely depressed economically, hence, less gamblers which is why Hankish and Porter started distributing kilos of cocaine.
http://m.ellwoodcityledger.com/mobile/ne...23483e4341.htmlhttp://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/200...es/200810230386http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2004&dat=19920409&id=HroiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q7UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1180,1726924
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=19900201&id=ILYiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DrUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1507,16257
