The defunct Pennsylvania By using this website, you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement and Privacy Policy, and understand your options regarding Ad Choices. Take me to Curious if there are any followers here who have ever met Chucky Porter, the former Pittsburgh Underboss, or if anyone on here knows anybody ---- Arts & Entertainment Charles "Chucky" Porter was 82. Like the Teamsters, the Laborers International Union has a long history of mob ties. The funeral home is handling Friday's visitation and Saturday's funeral. Porter's son, prominent Pittsburgh attorney Charles Porter Jr., had argued for his father's early release. His defection put him in league with Alfonse D'Arco, former acting head of the Lucchese crime family in New York, who is called upon to testify at organized crime trials whenever needed. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. According to a motion for a reduction in sentence filed by U.S. Attorney Harry Litman, Porter has helped the FBI investigate loan-sharking in New York by the Bonanno family in 1992, a gambling ring in Harmarville in 1993, narcotics and loan-sharking in Pittsburgh from 1994 through 1998, a 1994 dispute over a landfill operation between the DeCavalcante family of New Jersey and the Genovese family of New York and the Pittsburgh mob's infiltration of the Rincon Indian tribal casino near San Diego. PENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) The onetime underboss of Pittsburghs dwindling Mafia family has died. "/arts/","/business/","/communities/","/education/", Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. 3 people dead after 2 separate shootings in McKeesport; scenes not connected, police say, Remains found in New Castle identified as man reported missing in 2013, Man facing charges after police chase on busy Ambridge road, Local woman living with cancer for 10 years hopes journey will help educate, advocate, Super-rare Jurassic-era bug discovered during Walmart shopping trip. According to a motion for a reduction in sentence filed by U.S. Attorney Harry Litman, Porter has helped the FBI investigate loan-sharking in New York by the Bonanno "/government/","/health/","/metro/","/organizations/", But Porter would serve less than half of that sentence and be released from federal prison back in 2000 as payment for becoming an informant. Territory within the city was also divided as the Sicilian's controlled the North and South sides, while the Neapolitan's controlled the East End. Published Oct 17, 2016 The defunct Pennsylvania The paper says Porter became a made member of the mob in 1986 and was arrested four years later, in April 1990, with more than a half-dozen associates on federalRICO statute charges.