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Steel City Partnership - Nevronas1 - 08-10-2021
Name of Faction: Steel City Partnership (AKA Pittsburgh Crime Family)
Number of Members (Minimum of 5): 6 (quality members)
Type Of Faction (Family, Triad, Street Gang, etc): Crime Family
Ethnic Background (Italian, Greek, African American, Irish, etc): Italian-American
Your Discord # (ex: gamer#4210): nevrwn#2796
Your SteamID: STEAM_0:0:227839162
Your Faction Discord link (If you have one): https://discord.gg/fmqHwgEWEp
Organization Backstory (Min. of 250+ Words & any images):
Steel City Partnership, and known as The Pittsburgh Crime Family, or The Pittsburgh Mob, is an Italian-American Mafia Crime Family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. (Steel City Partnership is a nickname for the Pittsburgh Crime Family.)
In Pittsburgh the Italian underworld was broken into two ethnic factions, with the "Sicilian Mafia" controlling the North and South sides of the city and the "Neapolitan Comorrah" controlling the East End of the city. In the early 1920s, the two factions became involved in bootlegging. Throughout the Prohibition era the factions fought in the city for control over the Italian neighborhoods of Allegheny County.
The earliest known Pittsburgh family Mafia boss was Stefano Monastero, who in 1925 was distributing bootlegging supplies throughout several warehouses on the North side of Pittsburgh. During Monstero's reign he was suspected of ordering the bombings of rival bootleggers facilities and for ordering the murder of his competitor Luigi "Big Gorilla" Lamendola in May 1927. Monastero was murdered on August 6, 1929 in front of St. John's hospital.
After Monastero's murder Giuseppe Siragusa became the new boss of the Pittsburgh family. Siragusa emigrated in 1910 from Sicily to Brooklyn and later to Pittsburgh, where he manufactured and traded illegal alcohol in Allegheny County. He became known as the “Yeast Baron” after becoming the largest supplier of yeast to illegal beermakers. Siragusa was a close ally to the Castellammarese Clan in New York City and paid tribute to Salvatore Maranzoano. On September 13, 1931, Siragusa was murdered in his Squirrel Hill home, just days after Salvatore Maranzano was murdered.
After the murder of Siragusa, the family came under the control of John Bazzano. The new Sicilian boss Bazzano had immigrated to the United States in the 1890s and built a bootlegging empire selling yeast and sugar to home breweries and thereby allowing them to manufacture illegal beer. Bazzano formed an alliance with the eight Volpe brothers, whom he allowed to operate out of a coffee shop in the Middle Hill. The Volpe brothers were the leaders of the "Neapolitan faction" and controlled illegal rackets throughout the Turtle Creek Valley and Wilmerding.
Bazzano became upset when the Volpe brothers began expanding into East Liberty and the North Side. On July 29, 1932, Bazzano sent a hit team to murder the Volpe's and had three of the Volpe brothers murdered. Two of the surviving Volpe brothers went to the "Commission" in New York, and it was decided Bazzano would be held responsible for his unsanctioned hit. On August 8, 1932, Bazzano's body was found in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He had been stabbed and strangled to death.
Vincenzo Capizzi became the new boss after Bazzano's murder, but he eventually resigned in 1937, and was replaced by Frank Amato. Amato began expanding his influence over the gambling rackets in and around Allegheny County, but in 1956 he became ill of a kidney ailment and resigned, becoming underboss.
In 1956, Sebastian John LaRocca became the boss of the Pittsburgh family and reigned as boss for nearly thirty years. LaRocca was born in 1938 in Sicily and moved to the United States in 1946, he later moved in 1949 with his wife to Pittsburgh. He started a business selling beer equipment and concrete blocks in Oakland. LaRocca later gained control of multiple illegal rackets like Racketeering, murder, loansharking, extortion, and gaming and was convicted on several occasions for larceny, receiving stolen property and operating an illegal lottery. LaRocca then gained connections and started his crime family and started to grow his empire throughout Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh crime family operated a faction from Youngstown, Ohio and throughout the Mahoning Valley. During the early 1970s, the faction gained control of the gambling rackets in Youngstown.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown,_Ohio][/url]
As boss of Pittsburgh, LaRocca attended the 1957 Apalachin Meeting along with his capos Gabriel "Kelly" Mannarino and Michael James Genovese. When the Police raided the Apalachin meeting LaRocca was able to escape the federal authorities but Mannarino and Genovese were unsuccessful and were arrested. Through bribery LaRocca became a powerful Mafia boss by controlling politicians, police officers and other officials in the Pittsburgh area. His family also maintained control of labor unions through Local 1058.
After escaping the Apalachin Meeting raid, Sebastiano moved his crime family to New York in 1978 and started to plant his roots and grow his crime empire there, running gun rackets and protection rackets, Steel City quickly learned their ways throughout New York and settled.
RE: Steel City Partnership - envy - 08-10-2021
+1 interesting application
RE: Steel City Partnership - tonybalogna1234 - 08-10-2021
+1 need more Italian factions like this one
RE: Steel City Partnership - Baldrick - 08-10-2021
-1 Backstory needs more Quality.
RE: Steel City Partnership - Nevronas1 - 08-10-2021
@ballin baldrick added some more backstory
RE: Steel City Partnership - wackyTiger - 08-12-2021
+1 Application is detail and thorough, we need more factions like this.
Steel City Partnership - Pendred - 08-13-2021
Thank you for applying for a faction.
Unfortunately your application has been denied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_crime_family