Pittsburgh Illegal Gambling Bust

[JCB1977]

Looks like Bobby poghen has been pretty ill as of late , everyone is getting old

Who said Bobby was sick?

He was in the hospital recently

Where did you hear that? I just spoke to his son 2 weeks ago. In the hospital for what?

A friend of mine whose friend with Bobby , I called my friend to wish him well on his procedure he was having done and he mentioned bobby was in the hospital a few weeks ago , not sure for what ,

I literally just sent his son a text...let me see what he says.

[JCB1977]

No truth to that rumor about BP.

[Stroccos]

No truth to that rumor about BP.

Well this is the same guy who know all about his cooperation , I belive him he have no reason to lie , it’s quite possible bobby doesn’t want people all up his buiness . He’s no spring chicken not surprising he have health issues

[JeremyTheJew]

Do u guys know nothing on godfather of Pittsburgh a and e show?

https://www.google.com/search?q=godfath ... e&ie=UTF-8

I believe that I have seen like half a episode but thought it was pretty awful

[Stroccos]

Do u guys know nothing on godfather of Pittsburgh a and e show?

https://www.google.com/search?q=godfath ... e&ie=UTF-8

I believe that I have seen like half a episode but thought it was pretty awful

never saw it but it looked terrible , I think it didn't even make it past one season

[JeremyTheJew]

they made a season 2

[jimmy_beans8]

The a&e guy seem like bullshit,,,,no connection to Any thing right,,besides bring italian??

[JeremyTheJew]

The a&e guy seem like bullshit,,,,no connection to Any thing right,,besides bring italian??

he owns a strip club. and i THINK that he was indicted and beat the charges. and that ties in w "hes still a gangster ". i think his wife was really hot too

[JeremyTheJew]

Is Vince Isoldi a gangster, an entrepreneur with a sordid past, or simply a good businessman? It depends on whom you ask in the Steel City, where Isoldi has made friends and enemies as a real estate tycoon and nightclub executive. The original series "Godfather of Pittsburgh" profiles Isoldi as he balances home life with professional dealings. Devoted to wife Carla and sons Enzo, Adolfo and Romeo, Vince often resorts to extreme measures to provide for them, and he also supports his six brothers and sisters. However, nothing upsets Vince more than being betrayed, especially by someone he trusts. No one knows this better than Vince's brother-in-law Sam, who has been ostracized from the family for crossing Vince. For advice, Vince leans on his father-in-law, Junior Williams -- aka Pittsburgh's "Numbers King" -- who has served time for racketeering.

[phatmatress777]

Hes not well liked in pittsburgh...seen as a sleazeball strip club owner. Most if not all are shut down. Cluberotica was the most sucuessfull. His father in law is numbers big shot junior williams.

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[JCB1977]

Is Vince Isoldi a gangster, an entrepreneur with a sordid past, or simply a good businessman? It depends on whom you ask in the Steel City, where Isoldi has made friends and enemies as a real estate tycoon and nightclub executive. The original series "Godfather of Pittsburgh" profiles Isoldi as he balances home life with professional dealings. Devoted to wife Carla and sons Enzo, Adolfo and Romeo, Vince often resorts to extreme measures to provide for them, and he also supports his six brothers and sisters. However, nothing upsets Vince more than being betrayed, especially by someone he trusts. No one knows this better than Vince's brother-in-law Sam, who has been ostracized from the family for crossing Vince. For advice, Vince leans on his father-in-law, Junior Williams -- aka Pittsburgh's "Numbers King" -- who has served time for racketeering.

Vince still has some strip clubs that are cash cows. Junior died a few months back. His wife Carla had most of the commercial properties in her name that her father owned which is estimated in the millions. Vince lives in Presto, PA which is one of the most affluent areas of Pittsburgh, lots of new money.

[JCB1977]

When Junior Williams was sentenced back in 2003, the government has also moved to seize properties he bought with gambling money. They include a house owned by one of his daughters, condos at Seven Springs Resort, a SeaRay boat and a bass-fishing boat, a hunting camp in Tionesta, an apartment in Miami, a hotel, two horse trailers, a Rolex watch, valuable coins and $4 million in cash. The Government got all of it.

[JCB1977]

Ironically, the Clark Building in downtown Pittsburgh where Junior ran his jewelry store Guglielmo's and his other business, the Sugar Deli, was owned by Antonio Ripepi estate.

[JeremyTheJew]

so was Vince ever connected?

[JCB1977]

so was Vince ever connected?

Sorta kinda not really if that makes any sense. His connection was through his father in law Adolph Williams (Surname is Guglielmo, Williams is the Americanized name). Vince never kicked up (that I am aware of). Nobody bothered him because he was Junior's son in law and Junior was respected throughout the state. Junior Williams and his brothers Salvatore and Eugene assumed control over the numbers business that was left behind by Tony Grosso, the largest independent numbers operator in the country. Bobby Iannelli took over the other half of Grosso's numbers business, which was $30 million per year. When Tony Grosso was operating and because of his strong political connections, LaRocca let him operate without paying tribute to the Pittsburgh LCN. When Tony went to prison in 1987, Mike Genovese had the Williams brothers and Bobby Iannelli seize control of the operation in which they all paid tribute to the Pittsburgh LCN. Ironically in 1987, the All American Club (underground Casino in Campbell, OH) which provided $20 million per year to the Pittsburgh LCN was raided by the FBI and that cash cow for 25 years just stopped. Indicted int he All American Club casino bust were Lenine Strollo, Dante Strollo, Bernie "The Jew" Altshuler, Ernest Biondillo among a few other low level workers. So the timing to take over Tony Grosso's numbers business was needed due tot he lost income from the all America Club.