Howard Marchitello

The Pittsburgh crime family, also known as the LaRocca crime family or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area. The organization formed during the late 1880s under Salvatore "Banana King" Catanzaro and was named after Sebastian "Big John" LaRocca, the family's longest-serving boss, from 1956 until his death in 1984. The Pittsburgh family rose to prominence during the Prohibition era under the l…