A moody, noir-style illustration depicting John Bazzano, Pittsburgh’s infamous Mafia don, standing in a dimly lit alley. He wears a fedora and long overcoat, with shadowy figures and 1930s-era cars in the background, evoking the dark underworld of organized crime during the Prohibition era.

John Bazzano: Pittsburgh’s Ruthless Mafia Don

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John Bazzano was, for less than a year, the leading figure in Pittsburgh’s Prohibition-era rackets, and he is remembered for the most notorious gangland killing in the city’s history and for his own murder two weeks later. His story is often told with a strongman’s swagger, but the best documented account, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s long-form…