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Re: Pittsburgh: The Dark Years of Prohibition
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JCB1977,Thanks for an amazing find. I'm from the western PA area,and am familiar with a lot of the history,but the photos and extra info really made for a dynamite read.
I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts that a friend and former business partner had told me his Mother's maiden name was Monastero.He remembered his Grandmother vaguely referring to some tragedies in the family,but had no idea who Stefano Monastero was,or the place he held in local Mob history. When I filled him in he nearly swallowed his teeth.
By the way,do you know if the Zappala mentioned in the article was a direct ancestor of our current DA Steven Zappala?
Again thank you for the post,and the consistently great info you provide on the Western PA,WV,and OH area Mob scene.
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Pittsburgh The city was incorporated in 1816. In 1837 a canal was completed between Pittsburgh and the eastern sea board. In 1854 Pittsburgh was connected to Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pittsburgh’s first blast furnace was opened in 1859 and within a decade the city was the iron and steel center of the US.
Siciliano born Nicola “Nick” Gentile in USA Nick Gentile was born in Siculiana and went in 1903 to New York and stayed at the home of Domenico Taormina, then he went to Kansas City where also his brother Vincenzo Gentile arrived. He is a friend of Vincenzo Lolordo.
Pittsburgh 4 December 1904 was Sicilian Peter Scalise (20) stabbed to death by camoristi. Dying Scalise told police he had angered the camorra in Boston, he had the fled to Chicago but was pursued and fled to his sister in Pittsburgh to be killed there
Baltimore fruit tycoon Joseph Di Giorgio Local fruit dealer Joseph di Giorgio (his brother Rosario Di Giorgio and they came from Cefalu) founded in 1904 the Baltimore Fruit Exchange
Baltimore Joseph Di Giorgio was president of the Atlantic Fruit company, the Di Giorgio Fruit Company, the Baltimore Fruit exchange, the Mediterranean fruit Importing Company of New York and vice president of the Connolly Auction Company of new York.
Pittsburgh In Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) were 9 August 1907 the Italians Giovanna Graziano and Giorgio Quagenti (Guagenti) hanged for the murder of wealthy Italian merchant Antonio Cappibianci in Pittsburgh. Police arrested Frank Glanco and Nick Ferrolio who were suspected of having arrived from NY to break the condemned men from prison
Pittsburgh black Hand leader Felipi Rea (Rei) Salvatore Lupo disclosed that lanasa traveled to Pittsburgh in November 1907 to arrange with Black Hand leader Phillip Rei to send extortion letters to Joseph Di Giorgio
Pittsburgh black Hand leader Felipi Rea (Rei) killed Felipi Rea (Rei) was shot and killed in Pittsburgh in December 1907 by Joseph Sunseri (possibly related to Hennessey murder accused Salvatore Sunseri) it was alleged the murder had been ordered by Baltimore fruit dealer Joseph di Giorgio
Baltimore Local fruit dealer Joseph di Giorgio (his brother Rosario Di Giorgio and they came from Cefalu) had as concurrent Alfred Goffe and his partner the Jamaican Antonio Lanasa. 10 December 1907 was fruit dealer Joseph di Giorgio’s house damaged by a bomb. Police arrest as a suspect Salvatore Lupo in Buffalo who had worked for Lanasa and who became a witness. Also witness Joseph Tamburo. John Scarletta (Schiatta aka Scarietta) was arrested in Cleveland. Also arrested were Rosarto Romeo, Ignazio Castalano and Frank Porcelli. Also suspects Rea murderer Joseph Sunseri and Nunzio Battaglia (Battaglonia)
Baltimore Petrosino assisted Baltimore City detectives in this case.
Baltimore During Lanassa’s trial, he admitted that his friend Vito Laduca had christened his child and that Vito Laduca was Lanassa’s collaborator in a lemon importing concern. Thornton Rollins (vice president of DiGiorgio’s Atlantic Fruit) served as foreman of the grand jury. Lanasa was defended by senator William Pinkney Whyte (who had also been Maryland governor, Baltimore mayor, comptroller of Maryland and the state’s attorney general). Goffe was represented by George Dobbin Penniman (who was hired by the British consul Gilbert Frazier). Salvatore Lupo said the group was run from Brooklyn by Black Hand boss Carmelio La Rosa “The Cavalier” (real name Tony Calcagno a barber)
Brroklyn based Black Hand leader Tony Calcagno (important in Pittsburgh) Carmelio La Rosa “The Cavalier” (real name Tony Calcagno a barber) a Black Hand leader in Pittsburgh was shot and killed early February 1908 in Brooklyn
Pittsburgh connected Giuseppi Creami (Cerami?) of New York was killed in march 1908 because he had identified the body of Carmelio La Rosa “The Cavalier” a Black Hand leader in Pittsburgh
Siculiana born Nicola “Nick” Gentile (FBN book page 794) In 1909 Gentile went back to Siculiana and married 20 June 1910 and 4 April 1911 was their daughter Maria Gentile born.
Baltimore fruit tycoon Joseph Di Giorgio In 1911 he bought the Earl Fruit Co. (a California fruit shipper)
Pittsburgh Calabrese boss Ferdinand Mauro Pittsburgh Calabrese boss Ferdinand Mauro and his lieutenant in Johnstown was Calabro
“Pittsburgh banana King” Salvatore Catanzaro (from Termini Imerese) killed The Calabrese boss Ferdinand Mauro had extorted Salvatore Catanzaro “the banana King of Pittsburgh” (from Termini Imerese). During 1913 was Salvatore Catanzaro “the banana King of Pittsburgh” (from Termini Imerese) stabbed to death
Pittsburgh mobster Stefano Monastero Pittsburgh mobster Stefano Monastero and his brothers Lorito Monastero and Sam Monastero were the sons of New Orleans Mafioso Pietro Monastero who was hanged from a lamp post for the murder of Hennesey
Pittsburgh mobster Stefano Monastero Angelina Casale’s home had in june 1914 been partially wrecked by a bomb after she had received black hand letters demanding 500 dollar. Carmell Casale her husband had committed several years earlier suicide by jumping into the Allegheny river (black hand victim desperation??)
Pittsburgh mobster Stefano Monastero Stefano Monastero his brother Lorito Monastero (president of the Italian Aeroplane Co. of Pittsburgh) shot and killed Stefano Monastero’s former mother in law Angelina Casale (52) of 954 Reesdale Street, Northside 30 August 1914 when she opposed his suit for the hand of Stefano Monastero’s divorced wife Rosie Casale. Stefano Monastero later remarried his former wife Rosie Casale
Pittsburgh capo mafia Gregorio Conti Pittsburgh capo mafia Gregorio Conti (his nephew Giuseppe Cusumano) was the boss in 1915 and reigned till 1920 when he retires and he was followed up by Salvatore Calderone
Pittsburgh consigliere Nicola Gentile Gentile arrived around 1915 in Pittsburgh. Gentile says that the Pittsburgh mafia paid a tribute to the Calabrese boss Ferdinand Mauro until Gentile and one of his man killed the killer of Salvatore Catanzaro “the banana King of Pittsburgh” (from Termini Imerese) in 1915 in front of a bar
Pittsburgh consigliere Nicola Gentile When Sicilian LaMantia was victimized by Calabro of Johnstown then Gentile and his men killed some of Mauro’s men in 1915 after which Salvatore Caldarone made peace and Ferdinando Mauro joined the Pittsburgh family.
Pittsburgh Black hand leader John LaPaglia wounded In 1917 were in Pittsburgh the Black Hand members John Cappa and John LaPaglia (28) shot by Charles Russogutto and Joseph Russogutto, Jack Guastaferra and his father Angelo Guastaferra. Cappa was killed and LaPaglia wounded
Los Angeles (California) murder case Joseph LaPaglia March 17, 1918 was Joseph LaPaglia shot to death on the corner of 52nd St. and Central Ave. Suspect Matranga gang.
Pittsburgh capo mafia Gregorio Conti killed Gregorio Conti watered down some liquor of Ferdinando Mauro and Conti was shot and killed 24 September 1919 in his car. Spoken free were Orazio Lenone, J C Catalano and Joseph catalano who admitted they were in the car with Conti when he was killed
Pittsburgh capo mafia Salvatore Calderone In 1920 Salvatore Calderone became Pittsburgh capo mafia what he is till 1925 when he retires and he was followed up by Stefano Monastero
NY BASED SALVATORE D’AQUILA REIGN
Cleveland capo mafia Joseph Lonardo orders attack at Nicola Gentile Nicola Gentile survived in 1920 a murder attempt by the Lonardo brothers
Sicily visit by Nicola Gentile Nicola Gentile was on vacation on Sicily when Francesco De Paglia (LaPaglia??) was shot and killed and he had named Gentile as his killer.
Sicily visit by Nicola Gentile. Giuseppe morello and Valenti Gentile was secretly met by the clutching hand Morello and Valenti who told him they were afraid that Salvatore D’Aquila would have them killed.
Gentile goes back to USA Gentile went to Chicago’s boss Mike Merlo, Pittsburgh’s boss Salvatore Calderone and Cleveland boss Joe Lonardo (who supports D’Aquila).
BALTIMORE
Baltimore fruit tycoon Joseph Di Giorgio In 1920 established he the DiGiorgio Fruit Co.
Baltimore fruit tycoon Joseph Di Giorgio When Prohibition ended in 1933 Joseph DiGiorgio formed Del Vista Wine Co
Baltimore fruit tycoon Joseph Di Giorgio ides Joseph Di Giorgio died in 1951 and the company was then run by his nephew Robert DiGiorgio
Baltimore fruit tycoon Joseph Di Giorgio (dead) In 1966 his company signed a contract with Cesar Chavez United Farm Workers Organizing Committee.
PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh Black hand leader John LaPaglia killed 19 October 1924 was in Pittsburgh John LaPaglia (35 and he would marry Jemma DeMino and she changed her name to Viola Morin) killed in his bed with a hatchet at 18 Tunnel Street and he himself was a suspect in 10 murders. Lapaglia’s friends suspected Louis “The Pig” Lamandola and Pete Curatola
Jemma DeMino aka Viola Morin then married Arthur Ambrose but they separated within a month and Ambrose was soon arrested
Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero In 1925 was Salvatore Calderone followed up as capo mafia by Stefano Monastero
Pittsburgh suburb Wilmerding family Volpe (Neapolitans) The eight brothers John Volpe (killed), Arthur Volpe (killed), James (Jimmy) Volpe (killed), Louis Volpe and Joseph Volpe were racketeers in the Turtle Creek Valley and virtually owned police and politicians in Wilmerding. James Volpe served on Wilmerding Council. Guy Volpe
Wilmerding based Volpe brothers Wilmerding’s police chief Joseph Corteal was a brother in law of the Volpe brothers. (his sister Amelia Corteal Volpe had married John Volpe and their daughter was Clara Volpe Bacco who married Arthur Bacco??)
Joseph Biondo Joseph Biondo married in 1925 Louise Volpe. Nicola Gentile claimed he educated Biondo as a mafioso in the 1920's (Gentile, p.63).
Wilmerding based Volpe brothers John Volpe and Guy Volpe and their cousin Joseph Mandella were suspected in the December 1926 murder of Harry Davenport police chief of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company ??
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 in 1928 rebel Giuseppe “Joe the Ghost” Pangallo was wounded when his car was blown up (suspect Mike Russo from NY at orders of Monastero)
Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero Johnnie Daniels was shot and killed in 1928 because he was a friend of rebel Joe “The Ghost” Pangallo
Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero 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 first move was an attempt to scare Penn Avenue racketeer Morris Curran out of the racket. On Aug. 1, 1929, a bomb was placed under his building, 1233-35 Penn Avenue, and did heavy damage. Two persons were seriously injured.
Pittsburgh capo mafia Stefano Monastero killed Stefano Monastero was 6 August 1929 shot and killed by Joe “The Ghost” Pangallo (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 wounded gunman Charles Spallino at St John’s Hospital Northside and his brother Sam Monastero just escaped. 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
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)
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 (Saverio Amaraso) found in a burning car. Police suspect their partner 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).
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
Giuseppe “Big Mike” Spinelli Giuseppe “big Mike” Spinelli got 17 December 1935 thirty years in Italy for the murder of the 3 Volpe brothers in Pittsburgh.
After the Volpe hit, two of the surviving brothers, Louis Volpe and Joseph Volpe, complained to the Commission in New York. The Volpe brothers came from Naples just like Vito Genovese who believed Bazzano received permission from his close friends Vincenzo Mangano, Albert Anastasia, Joseph Biondo and Nicola Gentile (consiglieri of Cleveland capo mafia Ciccio Milano) to murder the Volpe brothers. Genovese contacted Anastasia who promised Genovese satisfaction. Bazzano came to NY to justify his actions with Anastasia, Mangano and Biondo and asked in anger why he couldn’t eliminate the Neapolitans (the Volpe brothers) and Bazzano was killed on the spot
John Bazzano was accompanied to his death by his bodyguard Giuseppe “Big Mike” Spinello of Wilmerding (Pittsburgh suburb) and probably Joseph tito
Brooklyn murder case Pittsburgh capo mafia John Bazzano sr On Aug. 8, 1932, his body turned up in the middle of a street in Brooklyn, N.Y., wrapped in a burlap sack. He had been stabbed 22 times in the chest with ice picks and strangled with a rope. His tongue had also been cut out and his lips sealed with tape. Bazzano was replaced by Vincenzo Capizzi, Sotto capo Frank Amato (Neapolitan friend of Genovese), Consiglieri Nicola Gentile Pittsburgh capo mafia Vincenzo Capizzi
Albert Anastasia Police arrested 17 August 1932 fourteen men at a restaurant party including Albert Anastasia (discharged), Paul Palmeri, Joseph Trainia, John Oddo, Ciro Gallo, Peter Lombardi and Tony Bonasera. The charge: loitering. Soon 5 were released and those were: Michael Russo from Pittsburgh, Carlo Sparlino from Pittsburgh, Santo Volpe from Pittsburgh, Frank Adrano from Pittsburgh and Michael Bua from Pittsburgh. Police free the 14 and then re-arrest 9. Police said they never could gather evidence to prosecute anyone for the killing.
Giuseppe “Big Mike” Spinelli Police also wanted to question Giuseppe “Big Mike” Spinelli about the John Bazzano murder.
Pittsburgh Capo mafia Vincenzo Capizzi, Sotto capo Frank Amato (Neapolitan friend of Genovese), Consiglieri Nicola Gentile
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh soldier Jack Gadazzo (townsman of the boss Capizzi but Gadazzo was supported by Gentile and Charles Cavallaro) was robbed by Amato’s associate Sam DiBella and a split in the borgata occurred. Capizzi and Amato sought advice of Vito Genovese who told them to kill Gadazzo and his supporters Gentile and Cavallaro. Soon was Jack Gadazzo killed in 1934, a year later they also kill a friend of Gadazzo. Anastasia protected Gentile and Cavallaro by taking them into the Mangano borgata.
Mangano soldier Nicola Gentile (Siculiana born) Nicola Gentile became in 1935 part of the Family led by Vincent Mangano and Joe Biondo. Mangano and Biondo had Gentile link up with drug dealer Charles La Gaipa aka Big Nose Charley (from Porto Empedocle and later killed) who became Gentile’s son in law.
Gentile was a member of Giuseppe Parlapiano's Manhattan crew. gentile stated that the gambino family had just 2 crews in Manhattan
most of their members were from Agrigento area. (?? Sciacca mainly??) Vincenzo Locicero, Capo, died 1923. Accursio De Mino, Capo, killed 1922. Nicola Gentile, Senior Capo, Manhattan. Joseph Parlapiano, Capo. (Sciacca) Gaetano Trupia, Capo. (born in Agrigento)
soldiers Agostino Amato Domenico Arcuri. Giuseppe LiCalsi. Eduardo Aronica. Salvatore Curto. Pietro Stincoe. Alfonso Attardi. Calogero DeLeo. Calogero LaGaipa. Luigi Marciano, Suicide 1933. (born in Sciacca) Onofrio Modica. (born in Sciacca, Agrigento) Andrea Torregrossa. John Sciacia.
Pittsburgh capo mafia Vincenzo Capizzi resigns In 1937 resigned Vincenzo Capizzi as boss and was followed up by his underboss Frank Amato Sr. Pittsburgh capo mafia Frank Amato Sr
Pittsburgh 17 January 1946 was in Pittsburgh “Big” Gus Gianni shot and killed and suspect is Joe Rosa with whom he quarreled
Pittsburgh In February 1946 was Newport hoodlum Danny Myers killed. Myers had himself killed a man
Pittsburgh 17 May 1948 were Freddie Garrow and Frank Evans (suspect in a holdup murder) shot and killed found in a car. The suspected shooter is Tony Delsanter and other suspects are Frank Valenti and Tony Ripepi
Pittsburgh Giuseppe Polimeni aka Tony Ripepi was also sought in Italy for murder
Baltimore Baltimore police wanted Antonio Ripepi for the shooting and wounding of Angelo Tromberi. Angelo Tromberi himself had shot club operator Frank Corbi.
Pittsburgh 22 March 1948 was race track bookmaker Harry Weidetz killed
Pittsburgh boss Frank Amato Sr resigns Frank Amato Sr. expanded the family's influence beyond Allegheny County, concentrating mostly on gambling, but in 1956 developed a kidney ailment and resigned to become underboss. John Sebastian LaRocca took over. underboss became Gabriel "Kelly" Mannarino and Michael Genoves became a capo. LaRocca was backed by the Genovese family of NY and was strong in Youngstown. Pittsburgh boss John Sebastian LaRocca
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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"
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Re: Pittsburgh: The Dark Years of Prohibition
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fantastic find and posts. Was there a mafia in Baltimore? for some reason that had never occurred to me that it was possible till i saw it mentioned in this thread.
"Goodfellas don't sue Goodfellas....Goodfellas kill Goodfellas." - Salvatore Profaci
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Re: Pittsburgh: The Dark Years of Prohibition
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More can be found on Catanzaro in these links: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22salvatore+catanzaro%22+pittsburgh&num=100&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ei=f7fFUvS6FsH6oATJ9oFw&ved=0CA8Q_AUoAg&biw=1280&bih=890 This has a great article on the murder of John Bazzano in 1932 and covers many other early Pittsburgh figures. I highly recommend it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/47748475/Informer-January-2011
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Over the years, a number of lists have been posted with the names of members of the Pgh Family. Most of the names I can identify, but some I can't. Can anyone help me identify these people?
4. Giuseppe Agostino (1899-1966) Soldier 20. Anthony D'Allesandro (1920-1978) Soldier 32. Francesco Genovese (1877-1965) Capo 33. Gabrial Genovese (1919-1983) Capo 36. Joseph Gigliotti (1903-2001) Soldier 44. Salvatore Mannarino (1920-1993) Soldier 45. Anthony Martrano (1950-2007) Soldier 46. Joseph Maruca (1925-1981) Soldier 50. Louis Miano (1890-1959) Soldier 52. Cesario Norece (1885-1961) Capo 55. Giuseppe "Joe Peachey" Picci (1911-1943) Soldier
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