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Lucky Luciano

Lucky Luciano Lucky Luciano is known as one of the greatest gangsters of all time. He was born in Lercara Friddi, Sicily on November 11, 1896. His parents were Antiono and Rosalia Luciana. He was born with the name Salvatore Lucinia. Luciano left Sicily with his parents in 1906 on route to New York. Salvatore wanted to fit in so he called himself Charles. His parents were never home, so he grew up on the streets. By the age of 9 he was already involved in extortion, mugging, and shoplifting. At age 10 he was arrested for shoplifting In 1916 at the age of 20 Luciano served a six month sentence for selling Jail didn’t teach Charles a lesson. As soon as he got out he started to run around with other gangsters. This is about the time he met up with Frank Costello and Meyer Lansky who became legendary gangsters in there own right. Also at this time he obtained the nickname that would last his entire life. He earned the nickname “Lucky” for being able to allude police and his craps winnings. By 1920 Lucky had made quite a name for himself in the underworld. He was well respected by his peers. He joined the ranks of New York’s fastest mob boss, Joe Masseria. By 1925 he was Masseria’s right hand man. He was in charge of bootlegging, prostitution, narcotics distribution, and many other rackets. Everything was going great for Lucky until October 1929. Lucky became one of the only gangstar’s to survive a “one way ride”. He was abducted by four men. The men through him in a car. They took him to the docks where the beat him, stabbed him repeatedly with an ice pick. Then the men slit his throat from ear to ear and left him for dead. But Lucky proved his nickname true by surviving the attack. He never named his abductors but, soon after the attack he The bloody gang wars of 1930 and 1931 between Masseria and rival boss Salvatore Maranzano was great for the young gangster’s. Lucky saw a chance to take charge and he went for it. He invited Masseria to a Coney Island restaurant and had him assassinated by some loyalists Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, Joe Adonis, and Bugsy Siegel. Lucky was done yet, six months later on September 10, he had Maranzano gun down my four Jewish gunman loaned to him by Meyer Lansky. Lucky had carefully formed his contracts with all the young gangster’s. Without trying Lucky obtained the title capo di tutti capi with means “boss of the bosses”. By 1932 he and the leaders of the other crime families developed a sophisticated national cartel. In 1935 special prosecutor Thomes E. Dewey went after Luciano. He tried to get Lucky on his narcotic or extortion rings but, nothing would stick. Dewey finally found evidence on Lucky’s prostitution rings. Dewey gathered evidence over the next year. In 1936 he took Lucky to trial and Lucky was convicted. He was sentenced to spend a 30-50 year sentence at Clinton Prison in Dannemora, NY. The press ridiculed Luciano Even though Luciano was in prison he still ruled the underworld. He gave orders and made decisions all from his cell. Then in 1942 the luxury liner “Normandy” blew up in the New York harbor. US intelligence suspected that the German’s may have been responsible for the explosion. The US government needed help securing the harbor and who better to ask than the man that controlled it, Lucky Luciano. Lucky gave the order to secure the docks and there were no more problems in the New York harbor. He also told his 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 beloved America again. The ironic twist was the Governor had to sign the pardon. The Governor at the time was Thomas E. Dewey the man that prosicuted Lucky. Lucky went to Rome. He lived the “high life” there. Lucky was a celebrity and was known for his generosity. He missed America though. His favorite place to eat was called the California. This is were all the American sailors ate and Lucky was able to talk to them about the where he grew up. Lucky then decided to move to Cuba. In Cuba he could monitor the drug trade better and was paid omege to by all the American crime bosses. The US government didn’t approve and pressured the Cuban government to exile Lucky Luciano then moved to Naples, Italy where he lived the rest of his life. On January 26, 1962 Lucky Luciano died of a heart attack. His body was transported to St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery in Queens New York. He finally returned to his beloved homeland. Lucky Luciano will always been known as one of the greatest mob bosses the Bibliography:

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