Primarily Pittsburgh (especially in New Kensington, Arnold and Bloomfield), with additional territory throughout Allegheny County, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio.[1]
Ethnicity
Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates
Activities
Racketeering, murder, loansharking, extortion and gambling
Allies
Bufalino crime family
Chicago Outfit
Cleveland crime family
Detroit Partnership
Five Families
Patriarca crime family
Philadelphia crime family
Outlaws MC[2]
Pagans MC[3]
Rivals
Various gangs in the Pittsburgh area
The Pittsburgh crime family,[4] also known as the LaRocca crime family[5] or Pittsburgh Mafia, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1][6] The LaRocca family is one of the original 26 mafia families in the United States.[7] In 2021, the boss Thomas "Sonny" Ciancutti died, he was also the last known made member of the family.[8]
^ abJason 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 Ciancutti died was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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