Catanzaro served as the treasurer for the Italian Red Cross Society and also worked alongside a network of Sicilian Mafia bosses in Western Pennsylvania.

The earliest known Pittsburgh Sicilian Mafia boss was Salvatore 'Banana King' Catanzaro, who started his fruit and produce company in 1888, in Downtown Pittsburgh. Territory within the city was also divided as the Sicilian Mafia clans controlled the North and South sides, while the Neapolitan Camorra clans controlled the East End. In the city of Pittsburgh the Italian criminals were divided into two ethnic factions the ' Sicilians' and the ' Neapolitans'. Main article: History of Pittsburgh § Prohibition In 2021, the boss Thomas 'Sonny' Ciancutti died, he was also the last known made member of the family. The LaRocca family is one of the original 26 mafia families in United States. The Pittsburgh crime family, also known as the LaRocca crime family or Pittsburgh Mafia, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Racketeering, murder, loansharking, extortion and gambling Italians as ' made men' and other ethnicities as associates Primarily Pittsburgh (especially in New Kensington and Bloomfield), with additional territory throughout Allegheny County, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio. Italian-American Mafia crime family Pittsburgh crime family Founded