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Join author Richard Gazarik as he reveals the wicked history of the Steel City

Muckraking journalist Walter Liggett dubbed Pittsburgh the Metropolis of Corruption in 1930 when he reported the city had more vice per square foot than New York Detroit Cleveland or Boston Decades earlier the MageeFlinn political machine ruled public officials and crooked police helped racketeers protect brothels and gambling dens Mayor later Governor David Lawrence was indicted several times for graft but acquitted each time Even Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr colluded with gangsters according to FBI reports