Also, check out Oleans, NY and Bradford, PA as it was a hub of OC figures around the 20's-30's. Also, the big names in Wheeling, WV connected to the LaRocca Crime Family of Pittsburgh were Bill Lias and Paul "No Legs" Hankish. Right across the border in Steubenville, OH were Silvio "Birdy" Pinciaro, James Vincent Tripodi as well as Cosmo Quattrone.
Thanks again, JCB. Your earlier posts on this forum alerted me to Tripodi, Quattrone, Pinciaro, et. al. I would be glad to learn more about them.
I discovered Bill Lias elsewhere on the net. He was quite a character, there's somebody you could make a movie about. Am I correct in assuming that he operated in W Va with the approval/cooperation of the Pittsburgh mob?
