Hi All,

I wanted to share with anybody who is interested the extensive control that the LaRocca Crime Family in Pittsburgh had over two major unions, LIUNA local 1058 and Teamster local 211. See links to each case:

1. http://www.ipsn.org/pittsburgh/t2000-08t-03-9-2001.htm (LIUNA 1058)

2. http://irbcases.wrlc.org/bitstream/hand ... sequence=1 (IBT 211)

Here is the obituary of Joseph LaQuatra, longtime LIUNA labor leader and close associate of John LaRocca, Mike Genovese and several other LaRocca Family members:

http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/ ... 1012270169

***Here are a few articles/union cases on Theodore "Teddy" Cozza, President of IBT local 211 since 1950:

1. http://irbcases.wrlc.org/bitstream/hand ... sequence=1

2. http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1991/Pitts ... fe1841a45a

3. http://www.laborers.org/PitsTrib_Local1058_3-28-00.html

Here is an article on Joseph "Jo Jo" Pecora, former Underboss to LaRocca/Genovese who also was a business agent for LIUNA local 178 of the Wreckers and Scrap Iron workers union. It's safe to say that LaRocca and Genovese had a stranglehold on quite a few locals from LIUNA and the IBT:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 90,1708156

Here is an IRB (independent Review Board) case on local 377 in Youngstown, which was under the control or influence of Lenine "Lenny" Strollo, a made member of Pittsburgh's LaRocca Family and the man in charge of all the rackets in Youngstown.

http://irbcases.wrlc.org/bitstream/hand ... sequence=2

Here is a list of Teamster or LIUNA officials barred from Union activity for LCN associations since 2005:

http://www.ipsn.org/teamsters/individua ... onitor.htm

There is an entire other Forum for these kinds of postings.

What do you mean? Which Forum?

You posted in general disscusion instead of oc

Besides being in the wrong forum, a lot of these links don't work either.