#8217;s. Lucky saw a chance to takecharge and he went for it. He invited Masseria to a Coney Island restaurant and had himassassinated by some loyalists Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, Joe Adonis, and BugsySiegel. Lucky was done yet, six months later on September 10, he had Maranzano gundown my four Jewish gunman loaned to him by Meyer Lansky. Lucky had carefullyformed his contracts with all the young gangster’s. Without trying Lucky obtained thetitle capo di tutti capi with means “boss of the bosses”. By 1932 he and the leaders ofthe other crime families developed a sophisticated national cartel.In 1935 special prosecutor Thomes E. Dewey went after Luciano. He tried to getLucky on his narcotic or extortion rings but, nothing would stick. Dewey finally foundevidence on Lucky’s prostitution rings. Dewey gathered evidence over the next year. In1936 he took Lucky to trial and Lucky was convicted. He was sentenced to spend a30-50 year sentence at Clinton Prison in Dannemora, NY. The press ridiculed Lucianofor being nothing but a pimp.Even though Luciano was in prison he still ruled the underworld. He gave ordersand made decisions all from his cell. Then in 1942 the luxury liner “Normandy” blew upin the New York harbor. US intelligence suspected that the German’s may have beenresponsible for the explosion. The US government needed help securing the harbor andwho better to ask than the man that controlled it, Lucky Luciano. Lucky gave the order tosecure the docks and there were no more problems in the New York harbor. He also toldhis connections in Europe to treat the US soldiers well. Since Lucky served his country he was rewarded with a pardon of his sentence. There was one condition to the pardon, he would never be able to set foot in his belovedAmerica again. The ironic twist was the Governor had to sign the pardon. The Governorat the time was Thomas E. Dewey the man that pro...
