Description
Description
Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don... The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia opened the family to massive profits from drug trafficking and a street tax on other criminal activities. At the same time, the Youngstown, OH faction of the family launched a brutal mob war against the weakening Cleveland mafia and the Altoona, PA crew violently clamped down on their city. Discover gritty stories of a made member who controlled who a local police department hired, an informant who betrayed his own mafia grandfather and father, numerous unsolved murders and a mob mole in the Pittsburgh office of the FBI. This is the tale of a mafia family at the pinnacle of its power, willing to do anything to hold on to that power and its downfall in the criminal underworld.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
Paul N. Hodos offers a more sinister take on the local mob in his provocative new book, "Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh's Last Don.''
-Steve Halvonik, a former Post-Gazette reporter and editor.
Steel City Mafia moves as briskly as an old episode of The Untouchables,"...Hodos offers a more sinister take on the local mob in his provocative new book." - Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
History Press
Pub date:
2023-04-17
Length:
176 pages

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