November 2022 issue contents - Feature
Mike Rosato ruled Gizzeria gangsters in western Pennsylvania
By Thomas Hunt and James Barber
"The brief and ultimately tragic 1924 stay of Youngstown’s Rocco Michael 'Mike Barber' Barbaro at a Sewickley, Pennsylvania, home belonging to Michelangelo 'Mike Ross' Rosato called attention to the close alliance of two Calabrian underworld factions in the region. While Barbaro’s older brothers – Dominick and Frank Barber – led a criminal organization transplanted to Youngstown, Ohio, from Casignana, near the Ionian Sea in the Reggio Calabria Province, Rosato’s Sewickley-area group was rooted in Gizzeria, near the Tyrrhenian coast in the Calabria region’s Catanzaro Province..."
Book page count: Sixteen pages, including three and a half pages of notes and five images.
Magazine page count: Nine pages, including two pages of notes and five images.
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