Lucky Luciano, whose real name Salvatore Lucania (November 24, 1897, Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy - January 26, 1962, Naples, Italy) is an Italian-American mobster who was probably the offense that the historical influence was greatest. The magazine The Times has ranked among the leading builders of empire of the twentieth century: an empire of crime. After the assassination of Salvatore Maranzano, Luciano was the true creator of the international trafficking of heroin.
Beginnings
Luciano immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1907. He began very early in the shoplifting and extortion of Jewish boys and young Italians in return for his protection. So he met Meyer Lansky , for whom he maintained a steadfast friendship. Lansky threat when actually, it was not to be intimidated and refused protection. It was also during his youth he met the man who would later be the boss of Chicago: Al Capone. At 18, Luciano was arrested (with Armand Taheri, who was 15 years old) while he was delivering heroin and spent six months in jail. His fame grew in the Five Points Gang, whose members were also known as the "Five Pointers". In 1920, he was a major smuggler, in association with Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel, and incidentally Joe Adonis and Vito Genovese. At the same time, Costello introduced him to Dutch Schultz and Arnold Rothstein. Two different versions explain his nickname "Lucky" ("Lucky"): the most likely connected to a beating in 1926. Depending on version, these were the henchmen of one of the main sponsors of New York, or Maranzano Masseria. The result came out miraculously alive, keeping only several facial scars, which damaged an eyelid, again half closed. The other version says that he often was counting on the good horse when he played at the races.
Covenant with the Mafia: Lucky Luciano (48 min)
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War Castellammarese
Lucky Luciano then joined the family of one of the most powerful backers from New York, Joe Masseria. While Luciano was furious to see many business opportunities due to fly anti-Semitism of the Mafia, Masseria was wary of his ambition. From
1930 to 1931, the Masseria family and that of his rival Salvatore Maranzano clashed during the war Castellammarese, resulting in dozens of murders. To end this carnage (with Meyer Lansky and preparing a plan to take power), Luciano spent a deal with Maranzano to betray Masseria was murdered while he was with him at the restaurant (Luciano had gone to the bathroom for an alibi ). Then he turned against his new boss.
Luciano's vision, his willingness to shake up the old traditions of the mafia, relationships (particularly Meyer Lansky) and his keen sense of strategy and a charisma undeniably brought Lucky Luciano, now a sponsor of the five families of La Cosa Nostra in New York to become an important member of Tomorrow.
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Rise
At age 46, Luciano reign on the environment. It brings together a conference of crime including Al Capone in Chicago will host another in New York in a hotel on Park Avenue to announce the outline of his proposed crime syndicate. Taking up the ideas he has gleaned from a boss Arnold Rothstein, said "the banker", he wants illegal activities will give the same structures as the U.S. economic and industrial sectors. It generalizes the system of "family" at the national level. Each clan must exercise absolute authority over its territory or city. A union council will be responsible for litigation and assassinations. No personal initiative and not free of crime. It creates a joint strike force: the Murder Incorporated, a limited company for the murders. Other rules: No one kills himself between mafia. The other, police, judges or politicians, they are corrupt because Luciano think all men can be bought, just to pay the price.
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Luciano, bright and eager young gangster can reach the top, becomes a celebrity and raises considerable funds for time (racketeering, drug traffickers, alcohol, games, control of unions). His idea of decentralization Crime headed the commission grants him a power that no gangster knew no more after him. So he settled in luxury at the Waldorf Astoria, wears different costumes every day and the most frequent beautiful call girls in New York.
However, in 1936, Attorney Thomas Dewey mounted a plot to allegedly update a large prostitution ring, Luciano being accused of organizing it according to methods of optimization. At trial, several prostitutes and pimps were called to testify, and Luciano received a sentence of 30 to 50 years imprisonment (although there is evidence that this story of prostitution had been created from scratch). His lawyer managed to have him transferred to the prison at Dannemora (instead of prison more lasts from Sing Sing where he was a librarian. Through his political connections, he was able to receive a treatment (champagne, caviar, etc..) And receive regular partner, allowing him to continue managing his empire.
Charles Lucky Luciano
Legend has it that in December 1941, the Secret Service U.S. Navy (ONI) had quietly approached Lucky Luciano to assist them to control the port of New York, which U.S. officials feared it would be the subject of attempted sabotage by Nazi agents. Provided by interest and patriotism, Lucky Luciano would have agreed to the Organization to serve the war effort. Until 1945, the Union of Dockers, totally infiltrated by the Mafia, including through Albert Anastasia, and would have held very firm control over port facilities.
This collaboration would have crossed a new milestone in 1943 when the U.S. Secret Service reportedly asked to enter in contact with the major "families" of Sicily, including Palermo's godfather, Calogero Vizzini so that they facilitate the Allied invasion of Sicily by sabotage and intelligence missions. The Mafia would have played a significant role in the success of military operations. Later, the Americans have asked him to contain communist influence in the island.
Lucky Luciano, however, denied this version of events in his book will.
The Havana Conference
In December 1946, continuing a journey that led him to Venezuela and Mexico, Luciano went to Cuba where he organized (with Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello and Joe Adonis ) conference in Havana. As a precaution, Luciano bought the hotel where the meeting takes place: the Hotel Nacional for a fee of $ 150 million with the approval of Fulgencio Batista. This meeting was an opportunity for him to reassert its leadership on the crime syndicate. Albert Anastasia, Joseph Bonanno, Vito Genovese, Tommy Lucchese, Carlos Marcello, Willie Moretti, Joe Profac, Abner Zwillman, Bugsy Siegel, Lepke Buchalter, Bo Weinberg, Albert Anastasia and Santo Trafficante were also present.
This meeting led to decisions of major importance as the massive investment in casinos in Havana, the murder of Bugsy Siegel , who after his investments in Las Vegas, could not repay the money lent by the Commission . Moreover, he formulated an arbitration in the rivalry between Albert Anastasia and Vito Genovese. This ambitious, vindictive Luciano wanted the withdrawal of (the management of his family, that coveted Genovese had been assigned to Costello and Lansky) provoked a heated argument. In February 1947, Luciano was deported back to Italy after pressure from U.S. government the government of Fulgencio Batista.
International trafficking heroin
In 1947, Luciano moved to Naples (officially as head of an import-export), where he forged ties with the mafia Italian Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta (Greek word meaning heroism and virtue ) and the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. Considering the enormous potential benefits of a booming market, he wanted to organize an international heroin trafficking, despite the reservations he had expressed earlier to Vito Genovese, a precursor in this activity. In October 1957, he organized the Grand Hotel des Palmes in Palermo, a conference attended by the main sponsors Sicilian and representatives of the five New York families, including Joseph Bonanno and Carmine Galante. It also embodies a strong relationship between U.S. and Sicilian mafias and set it up heroin trafficking routes: opium from Turkey. It would have also forged links with the traffickers determinants Corsica and Marseilles underworld, including Antoine Guerini, including trafficking networks were known as: French Connection.
Last Years and Death
From Naples, places where he was exiled in 1959, it traps Vito Genovese in a transaction of heroin which were alerted federal authorities. In the early 1960s he clashed with Meyer Lansky, whom he suspected of diverting the sums owed to him, but gave up acting.
In Naples resident, Luciano does not look like the villain he was. He says he looks like a "retired dentist. His hair is graying, wears glasses, plays with his dog. It is especially fell in love for the first time a Milanese Igea Lissoni. But She died of breast cancer in 1958. Luciano will never recover.
In January 1962, Lucky Luciano was stricken by a heart attack at Naples airport, while the assistant Barnett Glassman was to bring him the screenplay on his life . He was buried in the United States, U.S. law does not consider that a corpse has any nationality. He is buried in a family vault in which Luciano was acquired in 1935 at St. John's Cemetery in Middle Village, New York.
Beginnings
Luciano immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1907. He began very early in the shoplifting and extortion of Jewish boys and young Italians in return for his protection. So he met Meyer Lansky , for whom he maintained a steadfast friendship. Lansky threat when actually, it was not to be intimidated and refused protection. It was also during his youth he met the man who would later be the boss of Chicago: Al Capone. At 18, Luciano was arrested (with Armand Taheri, who was 15 years old) while he was delivering heroin and spent six months in jail. His fame grew in the Five Points Gang, whose members were also known as the "Five Pointers". In 1920, he was a major smuggler, in association with Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel, and incidentally Joe Adonis and Vito Genovese. At the same time, Costello introduced him to Dutch Schultz and Arnold Rothstein. Two different versions explain his nickname "Lucky" ("Lucky"): the most likely connected to a beating in 1926. Depending on version, these were the henchmen of one of the main sponsors of New York, or Maranzano Masseria. The result came out miraculously alive, keeping only several facial scars, which damaged an eyelid, again half closed. The other version says that he often was counting on the good horse when he played at the races. Covenant with the Mafia: Lucky Luciano (48 min)
Covenant with the Mafia 1 Of 3
War Castellammarese
Lucky Luciano then joined the family of one of the most powerful backers from New York, Joe Masseria. While Luciano was furious to see many business opportunities due to fly anti-Semitism of the Mafia, Masseria was wary of his ambition. From
1930 to 1931, the Masseria family and that of his rival Salvatore Maranzano clashed during the war Castellammarese, resulting in dozens of murders. To end this carnage (with Meyer Lansky and preparing a plan to take power), Luciano spent a deal with Maranzano to betray Masseria was murdered while he was with him at the restaurant (Luciano had gone to the bathroom for an alibi ). Then he turned against his new boss.
Luciano's vision, his willingness to shake up the old traditions of the mafia, relationships (particularly Meyer Lansky) and his keen sense of strategy and a charisma undeniably brought Lucky Luciano, now a sponsor of the five families of La Cosa Nostra in New York to become an important member of Tomorrow.
Covenant with the Mafia 2 of 3
Rise
At age 46, Luciano reign on the environment. It brings together a conference of crime including Al Capone in Chicago will host another in New York in a hotel on Park Avenue to announce the outline of his proposed crime syndicate. Taking up the ideas he has gleaned from a boss Arnold Rothstein, said "the banker", he wants illegal activities will give the same structures as the U.S. economic and industrial sectors. It generalizes the system of "family" at the national level. Each clan must exercise absolute authority over its territory or city. A union council will be responsible for litigation and assassinations. No personal initiative and not free of crime. It creates a joint strike force: the Murder Incorporated, a limited company for the murders. Other rules: No one kills himself between mafia. The other, police, judges or politicians, they are corrupt because Luciano think all men can be bought, just to pay the price.
Covenant with the Mafia 3 of 3
Luciano, bright and eager young gangster can reach the top, becomes a celebrity and raises considerable funds for time (racketeering, drug traffickers, alcohol, games, control of unions). His idea of decentralization Crime headed the commission grants him a power that no gangster knew no more after him. So he settled in luxury at the Waldorf Astoria, wears different costumes every day and the most frequent beautiful call girls in New York.
Role during the Second World War
Charles Lucky Luciano
Legend has it that in December 1941, the Secret Service U.S. Navy (ONI) had quietly approached Lucky Luciano to assist them to control the port of New York, which U.S. officials feared it would be the subject of attempted sabotage by Nazi agents. Provided by interest and patriotism, Lucky Luciano would have agreed to the Organization to serve the war effort. Until 1945, the Union of Dockers, totally infiltrated by the Mafia, including through Albert Anastasia, and would have held very firm control over port facilities.
Lucky Luciano, however, denied this version of events in his book will.
The Havana Conference
International trafficking heroin
Last Years and Death
From Naples, places where he was exiled in 1959, it traps Vito Genovese in a transaction of heroin which were alerted federal authorities. In the early 1960s he clashed with Meyer Lansky, whom he suspected of diverting the sums owed to him, but gave up acting.
In Naples resident, Luciano does not look like the villain he was. He says he looks like a "retired dentist. His hair is graying, wears glasses, plays with his dog. It is especially fell in love for the first time a Milanese Igea Lissoni. But She died of breast cancer in 1958. Luciano will never recover.
In January 1962, Lucky Luciano was stricken by a heart attack at Naples airport, while the assistant Barnett Glassman was to bring him the screenplay on his life . He was buried in the United States, U.S. law does not consider that a corpse has any nationality. He is buried in a family vault in which Luciano was acquired in 1935 at St. John's Cemetery in Middle Village, New York.
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