# U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania: leadership-team release of April 16, 2018

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-wdpa-leadership-release-2018/

A Justice Department release naming the Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney's senior staff. Its biography of the First Assistant lists among his notable cases "the successful eight-week trial of the Pittsburgh La Cosa Nostra organized crime family on RICO charges." It gives no date, defendants or docket for that trial.

Released Monday, April 16, 2018, by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, which sits in Pittsburgh. The release announces the U.S. Attorney's senior leadership team and a reorganization of the office's criminal division.

One clause bears on organized crime. In the biography of the newly named First Assistant U.S. Attorney, the release lists his notable cases, beginning with "the successful eight-week trial of the Pittsburgh La Cosa Nostra organized crime family on RICO charges." The rest of the release concerns other cases and other staff.

This archive cites the release for one thing: that the Justice Department, in its own words, describes a RICO trial of "the Pittsburgh La Cosa Nostra organized crime family" prosecuted by that office. The release does not say when the trial took place, who the defendants were, what the verdicts were, or what the docket number is, and none of those is supplied here. A 1992 Third Circuit table decision from the same district (961 F.2d 1569) was opened during research but states no charge and no organization, so it is not tied to this trial and is not filed.

## Sources

- U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/us-attorney-scott-w-brady-names-senior-leadership-team-reorganizes-office-s-criminal