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Re: Pittsburgh's most powerful mobsters
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01/16/15 08:49 PM
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Since the early 40's, only Joe Regino, Sam Fashionatta and John Verilla were made that were from Altoona/Johnstown with Regino being a Capo. Pittsburgh operated differently, they would assign one Capo to a specific region or part of the city and that Capo had a crew of associates. In that crew, there would be a few "high ranking" associates that the family allowed them to use their name. Made guys would get the smaller sections of town or region and they would have a crew of associates. Guys like Primo Mollica, Auggie Ferrone, Frank Unis Jr., Bernie Altshuler, Ernie Biondillo, Junior & Sal Williams etc still had steam and had their own crews under them. Prior to Regino, the landscape of Pittsburgh OC was the black hand and early Camorra. That's a whole other world to explore. Fascinating stuff, but I just started reading about it and researching some personal family history. I like it better than modern day OC.
As for associates, I'll pull a few things from my files and provide you a list of what I have. I'm going away for a few days, so I'll get it to you next week. And yes, Altoona was a faction of the family just like Youngstown, OH, Wheeling, WV, Erie, PA, Canton, OH and Steubenville/East Liverpool, OH. Everybody answered to Pittsburgh. Regino reported to Kelly Mannarino in New Kensington. Verilla answered to Mannarino/Sonny Ciancutti.
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Re: Pittsburgh's most powerful mobsters
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Members and associates from Altoona/Johnstown are:
Joseph "Little Joe" Regino- Capo
John "Jack" Verilla- Made Soldier
Samuel Fashionatta aka Sam Fashion- Made Soldier
Alfred Corbo- High Ranking associate
Michael Gulino-High Ranking associate
Joseph "The Weep" Ruggiero- High Ranking Associate
Fred Piera- High Ranking Associate
Paul Folcarelli aka Paul Farrell
Jack Miraglia- Associate
Sam Rametta-Associate
Joseph Jacobs-Associate
Walter Nichols-Assocaite
Stephen St. Clair-Associate
Chris Boring-Associate
John Caramadre-Associate
Vincent Caracciolo-Associate
Dick Williams-Associate
Robert Michlena-Associate
Dave Osborne-Associate
Sadie Verrone-Associate
Louis Crocco-Associate
Elias Hanna- Associate
Angelo DeGory- Associate
Charles Bobby-Associate
John Hanzek-Associate
Peter Torchia-Associate
John Kunz-Associate
Chris Flynn-Associate
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Re: Pittsburgh's most powerful mobsters
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01/21/15 11:03 AM
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Thanks for the list. When did this faction quit operating. I know Verilla and some of his guys went away in 84 I think, but what about some of the other guys. I knew Pittsburgh continued for awhile, but when did Altoona stop making them any money. Corbo, Piera & Gulino were kicking up to Mike Genovese until Mike died in 2006. Bazzano Jr continued being paid tribute until he died in 2008. After that, it was every man for himself.
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Re: Pittsburgh's most powerful mobsters
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Wow didnt realize those guys were still operating not to long ago and even still kicked up. Pretty cool. Oscar as far as Altoona goes, would you say they were probaly the smaller of the pittsburgh factions that they had? Lawrence Amodie from New Castle was Mike Gulino's partner, Gulino took over all of Capo Joe Regino's booking and extortion rackets. Gulino & Amodie had a 7 county gambling operation and Amodie was a guy who was younger that could have been bigger if Lenny Strollo from Youngstown wasn't so threatened by him. Strollo bad mouthed Amodie to Henry Zottola and Pat Feruccio. Altoona/Johnstown is considered one faction, so it was bigger than Wheeling, WV. But WV had all the big moneymakers illegal casinos along Rte 30. FriendofHenry spent a lot of time in some of those clubs, I believe Donald "Moosey" Caputo had the licenses grandfathered in and had a few casinos without licenses. Youngstown/Warren/Canton was a very big faction because the area was much bigger, higher population.
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Re: Pittsburgh's most powerful mobsters
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"Moosey" Caputo's original Federal Gaming Stamp was issued to the Jungle Inn in Hubbard, Ohio. As long as the club operators paid Federal Tax, they were not in violation of federal law. Thus their only concern was state and local police. Hard to believe that they mostly got along with them ;-)
After the Jungle Inn was raided and closed, the stamp, (license) was transferred to the clubs on Rt. 30 in West VA. I believe that Club 30 was the first to use "Moosey's" stamp. It then went to the Jockey Club. By then Jo Jo literally owned the Sheriff and even the Governor. Joe built a nice home on the Club 30 property on Rt. 30 and became a resident of West Va. He always complained that he was given West VA. license plate #2. The always said that he paid the Governor more that the state and he should have the Governor's plate #1.
The Jockey Club finally got raided by the Feds for transporting people over state lines for illegal activities. Most of the casino workers lived in Pittsburgh PA. and drove back and forth everyday. Joe's right hand, Zebo, was smart enough and also built a house not far from the clubs and became a resident of West VA.
After the Jockey Club closed they made one last attempt to operate a big time casino in West VA. A couple of miles down Rt. 30, on the way to downtown Chester, they built a stand-alone building. It's was designed like an old western saloon and appropriately named The Red Dog. It operated for a couple of years and closed when Jo Jo went to "school" in Lexington, Ky. Their last club, operated by Zebo, was on a side road off Rt.2 almost directly across from Waterford Park. It didn't last too long.
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Re: Pittsburgh's most powerful mobsters
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"Moosey" Caputo's original Federal Gaming Stamp was issued to the Jungle Inn in Hubbard, Ohio. As long as the club operators paid Federal Tax, they were not in violation of federal law. Thus their only concern was state and local police. Hard to believe that they mostly got along with them ;-)
After the Jungle Inn was raided and closed, the stamp, (license) was transferred to the clubs on Rt. 30 in West VA. I believe that Club 30 was the first to use "Moosey's" stamp. It then went to the Jockey Club. By then Jo Jo literally owned the Sheriff and even the Governor. Joe built a nice home on the Club 30 property on Rt. 30 and became a resident of West Va. He always complained that he was given West VA. license plate #2. The always said that he paid the Governor more that the state and he should have the Governor's plate #1.
The Jockey Club finally got raided by the Feds for transporting people over state lines for illegal activities. Most of the casino workers lived in Pittsburgh PA. and drove back and forth everyday. Joe's right hand, Zebo, was smart enough and also built a house not far from the clubs and became a resident of West VA.
After the Jockey Club closed they made one last attempt to operate a big time casino in West VA. A couple of miles down Rt. 30, on the way to downtown Chester, they built a stand-alone building. It's was designed like an old western saloon and appropriately named The Red Dog. It operated for a couple of years and closed when Jo Jo went to "school" in Lexington, Ky. Their last club, operated by Zebo, was on a side road off Rt.2 almost directly across from Waterford Park. It didn't last too long. Moosey Caputo and Dominic Mallamo got their start in the numbers business in the 1930's in Youngstown. They had the south side lottery house.
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Re: Pittsburgh's most powerful mobsters
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01/22/15 09:27 AM
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Moosey Caputo and Dominic Mallamo got their start in the numbers business in the 1930's in Youngstown. They had the south side lottery house.
News to me, but makes perfect sense - Live and learn! You don't suppose that any local politician was involved with them at that time ;-)
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Re: Pittsburgh's most powerful mobsters
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Moosey Caputo and Dominic Mallamo got their start in the numbers business in the 1930's in Youngstown. They had the south side lottery house.
News to me, but makes perfect sense - Live and learn! You don't suppose that any local politician was involved with them at that time ;-) Copy and paste these articles: 1. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eC9JAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GIQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5365,6714491&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 2. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fC9JAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GIQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2304,7702284&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 3. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z-ZIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=doIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5785,6756008&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 4. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=buZIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=doIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3562,8411753&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 5. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eC9JAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GIQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5609,6724465&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 6. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6hNJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QoMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3743,132550&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 7. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iuleAAAAIBAJ&sjid=71MNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4475,6905716&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 8. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lu9RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wIMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3805,5640577&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 9. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aeZIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=doIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4258,7163808&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 10. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=euleAAAAIBAJ&sjid=71MNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3317,2662555&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 11. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Zy9JAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GIQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2768,1679790&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en 12. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BPNYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=doUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1430,1366716&dq=dominic+mallamo&hl=en
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