BUSTED: Gambling Ring With Links to Defunct Pittsburgh Mafia Family
Thirteen individuals, including a father and son alleged to be associates of the "defunct" Pittsburgh Cosa Nostra , were arrested last week for participating in an illegal gambling ring. Rodney Ianelli. Robert (Bobby I) Iannelli, 88, of Wexford, and Rodney (Rusty) Iannelli, 58, of Pittsburgh, were charged by a grand jury with running an illegal bookmaking and lottery business that brought in tens of thousands of dollars weekly, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Robert Iannelli has multiple convictions for gambling charges by both state and Federal investigators going back to 1969. His son, Rodney Iannelli, was arrested in 2000 for involvement in a Fayette County sports betting and illegal lottery ring connected to one of Pittsburgh's "last made mobsters," Thomas “Sonny” Ciancutti. This latest case began when the state attorney general’s office and state police launched a probe in March 2015 that discovered the Iannellis were operating ...