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| Founded | c. 1888 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Salvatore "Banana King" Catanzaro |
| Named after | Sebastian "Big John" LaRocca |
| Founding location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Years active | c. 1888–2021 |
| Territory | Primarily Greater Pittsburgh (especially New Kensington, Arnold and Bloomfield), with additional territory throughout Western Pennsylvania, Northeast Ohio and the northern panhandle of West Virginia[1] |
| Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
| Activities | Racketeering, drug trafficking, murder, loansharking, extortion, gambling and prostitution |
| Allies | |
| Rivals | Various gangs in the Pittsburgh area |
The Pittsburgh crime family,[4] also known as the LaRocca crime family[5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1][6] The LaRocca family is one of the original twenty-six Mafia families in the United States.[7] The boss and last known "made" member of the family, Thomas "Sonny" Ciancutti, died in 2021.[8]
- ^ a b Jason Cato. Reputed mob boss linked to "old-time Mafia" Archived 2009-02-22 at the Wayback Machine (November 2, 2006) Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- ^ 1986 Report of the Organized Crime Consulting Committee National Criminal Justice Reference Service p.7 (1986) Archived June 30, 2022, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh’s Last Don Paul N. Hodos (2023) ISBN 9781467153751
- ^ Capeci, Chapter 5 "Mafia Families Poison the Northeast"
- ^ Organized Crime in Pennsylvania: Traditional and Non-Traditional. Pennsylvania Crime Concession. April 15, 1988. (The Nevada Observer. August 16, 2006) Archived November 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Devico, (pp. 185–187)
- ^ "Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - 26 Mafia Families and Their Cities". www.americanmafia.com. Retrieved Aug 5, 2022.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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