by JCB1977 » Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:35 pm
Frank wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:48 pm
I wonder why Pittsburgh and LaRocca were under Commission supervision for awhile.
My best guess is when Antonio Ripepi drove to Baltimore, sand s hot one of the Corbi brothers and drove back to Pittsburgh where his wife testified that he was in bed with her al night. I believe that happened in the 1960’s. Corbi Brothers were affiliated with the Gambino’s but had strong ties to Pittsburgh, Youngstown and West Virginia. It also could have been in 1969 when Pittsburgh mob leaders Frank Amato Sr., John LaRocca, Kelly Mannarino, Frank Rosa Jr and Joe Sica were indicted by the Southern District of NY along with NY mobsters Salvatore Celambrino and Edward “Eddie Buff” Lanzieri as well as Detroit mobsters Dominic “Peter” Corrado and Sam Marosso for receiving kickbacks from the Teamsters pension fund.
**Sidenote: oversight by commission probably put a freeze on making new guys which we all know Pittsburgh didn’t make a lot of new guys, the last batch were 6 guys between 1980-1989 just to replenish some of the ranks due to old members dying off.
Obviously, I don’t know that for a fact but the IRS was chasing LaRocca since the 1940’s, Fired IRS Agent Andrew Susce wrote a book called Lonely Fighter: One man’s Battle against the US Government and it was centered around his longtime pursuit of LaRocca and how the INS tried to deport him several times. Big John had the Zappala Family in his corner as well as many other political heavyweights, the Zappala’s were related to the Bazzano’s through the marriage of Gianni Bazzano Sr and Rose Zappala, tbey were the most powerful Pennsylvania political family, they did a lot of favors for the organization.
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I wonder why Pittsburgh and LaRocca were under Commission supervision for awhile.
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My best guess is when Antonio Ripepi drove to Baltimore, sand s hot one of the Corbi brothers and drove back to Pittsburgh where his wife testified that he was in bed with her al night. I believe that happened in the 1960’s. Corbi Brothers were affiliated with the Gambino’s but had strong ties to Pittsburgh, Youngstown and West Virginia. It also could have been in 1969 when Pittsburgh mob leaders Frank Amato Sr., John LaRocca, Kelly Mannarino, Frank Rosa Jr and Joe Sica were indicted by the Southern District of NY along with NY mobsters Salvatore Celambrino and Edward “Eddie Buff” Lanzieri as well as Detroit mobsters Dominic “Peter” Corrado and Sam Marosso for receiving kickbacks from the Teamsters pension fund.
**Sidenote: oversight by commission probably put a freeze on making new guys which we all know Pittsburgh didn’t make a lot of new guys, the last batch were 6 guys between 1980-1989 just to replenish some of the ranks due to old members dying off.
Obviously, I don’t know that for a fact but the IRS was chasing LaRocca since the 1940’s, Fired IRS Agent Andrew Susce wrote a book called Lonely Fighter: One man’s Battle against the US Government and it was centered around his longtime pursuit of LaRocca and how the INS tried to deport him several times. Big John had the Zappala Family in his corner as well as many other political heavyweights, the Zappala’s were related to the Bazzano’s through the marriage of Gianni Bazzano Sr and Rose Zappala, tbey were the most powerful Pennsylvania political family, they did a lot of favors for the organization.