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The Scalleat Brothers’ Crew of Pennsylvania

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Organized crime in northeastern Pennsylvania was generally controlled by the Russell Bufalino Family which was headquartered in the town of Pittston.

But because of the wide territory and far-flung operations they controlled, it was sometimes necessary for the borgata to “assign” a particular town or village over to a resident “soldier” or several key “associates” residing there to oversee those racket operations for the Family.

The town of Hazleton gave birth to a family of four young hoodlum brothers by the name of Scalleat, who, in future years, would rise to become the dominant racketeers and underworld powers in that section of Pennsylvania.

The Scalleats also dominated the nearby towns of Lancaster, Allentown, Bethlehem, Reading, Shamokin, Easton, Lebanon, and Harrisburg, among other areas.

Back in Italy, their original family surname had actually been Scariati. But upon immigrating to the United States, they adopted the more American-sounding last name of Scalleat.

Dating to the late 1920s, into the 1930s, the Scalleat brothers and their gang of toughs operated bootlegging rackets and several houses of prostitution in Bethlehem and Allentown. Called “disorderly houses,” these locations also served as illegal speakeasies where you could drink booze as well as gamble on slot machines and dice and card games. 

Around this same period of time, the Scalleat Gang started up what would become a citywide “policy-numbers” game. They eventually expanded the game into other nearby neighborhoods and surrounding towns, including black neighborhoods where the “numbers” game was very prominent. 

The nominal leader of the gang was their oldest brother Sammy Scalleat. His partner and top assistant was a younger brother named Joe who was seven years Sammy’s junior. Rounding out the gang were their two younger brothers Pasquale and Albert as well as a small band of extended family, including cousins and in-laws and some local hoodlums the brothers had grown up with. 

Continue reading to learn more about the Scalleat Brothers of Pennsylvania in this short history and view the Scalleat Brothers’ Leadership chart.

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