1970 PA Crime Commission Report on OC

[JCB1977]

Great piece

https://mafiahistory.us/maf-pcc70.html

[faffy444]

really great piece. nice amount of detail. thanks for posting

[motorfab]

Interesting. I did not know that Decavalcante & Maggadino were active in Pennsylvania. Thank you !

[Angelo Santino]

Sorta puts to bed Celeste Morello's claim that Scranton wasn't its on family but a contingent of NYC or Buffalo.

[Frank]

I wonder why Pittsburgh and LaRocca were under Commission supervision for awhile.

[JCB1977]

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.

[JCB1977]

Sorta puts to bed Celeste Morello's claim that Scranton wasn't its on family but a contingent of NYC or Buffalo.

Now that you mention it, it’s the perfect example of a glorified crew overseeing the garment factories for the garment district of NYC. FBI Surveillance has Bufalino in NYC often, meeting with the powerbrokers. While Bufalino’s power will always be debated, I truly believe he was respected nationally. I remember somebody posting in the past where it was mentioned that Bufalino “was an acting boss in NY.” If Scranton was a contingent of NYC, that piece of intel possibly could be correct. I’m just theorizing but it’s plausible. All those territories overlap with Buffalo, Rochester, Scranton/Pittston, Binghamton, Apalachin...quite a number of made guys in Scranton lived in NY, go to the members list of the 1990 PA Crime Commission Report on OC for a complete list of the Bufalino Family members (starts on page 135) and their addresses. At least 7 members lived in NY, one of Bufalino/Sciandra’s Chief enforcers was Charles Fratello from a Brooklyn, NY and one of Bufalino’s key operatives in labor racketeering was John Francis out of Yonkers (Westchester County). The waters are too murky to make a definitive case but there is some evidence that points to what this 1970 report said.

[Frank]

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.

Those are all good possibilities. Maybe when Amato Sr stepped down LaRocca was the provincial boss for awhile, like Gambino was when he became boss of his Family.

[AlexfromSouth]

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.

Salvatore Celambrino, interasting

[JCB1977]

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.

Salvatore Celambrino, interasting

I don’t know anything about him, what was his story?

[AlexfromSouth]

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.

Salvatore Celambrino, interasting

I don’t know anything about him, what was his story?

He was Anthony Casso's godfather

[JCB1977]

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.

Salvatore Celambrino, interasting

I don’t know anything about him, what was his story?

He was Anthony Casso's godfather

Wow. Good info. Made? Rank? Lucchese Family?

[AlexfromSouth]

Yes he was capo, died in 1971. Genovese crime fam, brooklyn docks

[JCB1977]

Yes he was capo, died in 1971. Genovese crime fam, brooklyn docks

Chances are he knew Rocco Pellegrino...Rocco was connected to Youngstown, Pittsburgh and Steubenville, OH through the Calabrians.

[AlexfromSouth]

Very good stuff