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| Name: | [GCS] Boss Luiciano™ | HP: | 9,550 / 9,550 [100%] | ||
| Type: | Respected Mobster | Crimes: | 11,070 | ||
| Gender: | Male | Forum Posts: | 49 | ||
| Level: | 191 | Money: | $14,000 | ||
| Prison (Caught): | 535 | Prison (Busts): | 84 | ||
| Age: | 396 days | Last Active: | 3m 55s | ||
| Online: | [online] | Gang: | Gambino Crime Syndic | ||
| City: | Phoenix | House: | Small Private Island | ||
| Hospital Status: | Not in Hospital | Prison Status: | Not in Prison | ||
| Referred By: | Nobody | Referred: | 0 | ||
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LUCKY LUCIANO
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania) (November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was a Sicilian-American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin trade.
Time magazine has named Luciano amongst the top 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20th century.
Early life
Salvatore Lucania was born on November 24, 1897 in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, a town primarily known for its sulfur mines. The promise of a new and better life led his family to immigrate to America in 1907 and he arrived in New York late that year. At age 10, Salvatore was arrested for the first time for shoplifting. At age 14, he served four months in a Brooklyn youth correctional facility for truancy.
In 1915, Salvatore and his gang were kicked out of a theatre in East Harlem for rowdy behaviour. It was that same night that Salvatore Lucania met Francesco Castiglia, better known as Frank Costello. Salvatore and Frank became close friends.
At age 18, Salvatore was sentenced to six months in the reformatory for selling heroin and morphine.
By 1920, Luciano had met many of the mafia heavyweights including, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, his longtime friend and business partner. Together they began a bootlegging venture using a trucking firm as a front.
In 1923, Genovese introduced Luciano to Charlie "Big Nose" Lagaipa, a heroin dealer who was known to mix business with pleasure. Lagaipa persuaded Luciano to invest in his drug ring. Luciano was later arrested in possession of a large amount of heroin. Facing a long prison sentence, Luciano tried and failed to bribe his way out. He eventually gave the government the location of a large amount of heroin. Luciano then planted the heroin in that location for the agents to find. Luciano later discovered that only half of the planted heroin was ever turned in by the agents.
By 1925, Luciano was grossing close to a million a year; however, he was netting much less each year due to the high costs of bribing politicians and cops. Luciano ran the largest bootlegging operation in New York, one that also spanned into Philadelphia. He imported scotch directly from Scotland, rum from the Caribbean and whiskey from Canada. He was also involved in gambling, loan sharking and extortion. By this time Luciano was already a big player in the New York mob.
Soon Luciano joined forces with Joe "the Boss" Masseria. But the partnership was doomed from the start as Luciano’s and Masseria’s methods of business differed greatly. One day in 1929, Luciano was forced into a limo at gun point by three men, beaten and stabbed, and dumped on a beach on New York Bay. Luciano survived the ordeal, but was forever marked with the now infamous scar and droopy eye. After his abduction, Luciano found out through Meyer Lansky that it had been ordered by Masseria. Luciano then secretly plotted with Masseria's enemy Sal Maranzano to betray Masseria. This plot would herald the beginning of the Castellammarese War.
Rise to power
The Castellammarese War raged from 1928 to 1931, resulting in the deaths of many mobsters. The war ended with the assassination of Masseria in a Coney Island restaurant by Bugsy Siegel and three of Luciano's men. It is rumored that Luciano was having lunch with Masseria and stepped into the men's room just as the gunmen stormed the restaurant. Sal Maranzano then made Luciano his number two man, and set up the Five New York Families under him. But Maranzano ultimately recognized Luciano for what he was: an ambitious gangster who would not stop until he reached the top. In order to maintain his power, Maranzano realized that he would have to eliminate Luciano as well as the infamous Al Capone of Chicago. However, Luciano learned about the murder plot and Meyer Lansky ordered the killing of Maranzano.
Luciano was now the model mobster; he had businesses throughout the country. His long time friend Meyer Lansky served as his right hand man and Luciano always followed Lansky’s advice. During the years of Luciano's rule, he made this pact: "we only kill each other". So when Dutch Schultz tried to kill New York attorney Thomas Dewey, in direct violation of the pact, Schultz was executed instead. Charles Luciano was a young, powerful and influential gangster who had finally reached the pinnacle of America's underworld, directing its criminal rules, policies and activities along with the other top Bosses. He sat atop the most powerful crime family in America, which now bore his name and controlled the most lucrative criminal rackets in New York such as gambling, bookmaking, loansharking, and extortion. Luciano was very influential in labor and union activities and controlled the Manhattan waterfront, garbage hauling, construction, garment center businesses and trucking. Luciano elevated his most trusted and loyal Family members to high-level s in the Luciano Crime Family. The feared Vito Genovese became his Underboss, while former Chicago Boss, Johnny Torrio was a member and considered Senior Advisor to the Family. The Luciano Crime Family had many powerful underworld members, and Luciano trusted his Capos to oversee his empire on the streets, including Frank Costello, Giuseppe "Joe Adonis" Doto, Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola, Anthony "Tony Bender" Strollo, Generoso Del Duca, Thomas "Tommy Palmer" Greco, Louis "Louie the Gimp" Avitabile, John "Duke" DeNoia, Gaetano Ricci, Rocco "The Old Man" Pelligrino, John "Footo" Biello, Guarino "Willie Moore" Moretti, Angelo "Gyp" DeCarlo and Ruggero "Ritchie the Boot" Bioardo in New Jersey, Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Cufari in Connecticut and Anthony "Little Augie Pisano" Carfano in Florida.
Charlie Luciano became extremely wealthy and liked to be seen around town at the most exclusive and expensive nightspots such as the Stork Club and Copacabana (nightclub) with a different woman every night. Luciano's reign was relatively short-lived - special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, a future Republican presidential candidate, singled out Luciano as an organized crime ringleader and succeeded in having him convicted on what were trumped up prostitution charges in 1936 and sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison along with Dave Betillo and others. He continued to run the Luciano Crime Family from prison, relaying his orders through his first Acting Boss, Vito Genovese, who quickly lived up to his feared reputation for violence and fled to Naples, Italy in 1937 to avoid a murder indictment. The Family's third most powerful member, Consigliere Frank Costello became the new Acting Boss and overseer of Luciano's interests. It is a mystery to most organized crime historians as to who replaced Costello as the Family Consigliere. The only hint to the Costello successor is that former Genovese Family soldier and the first mafia informer in the United States, Joseph "Joe Cago" Valachi mentions in the book "The Valachi Papers", a certain "Sandino" as the Family counselor at a meeting he attends with his Capo Anthony "Tony Bender" Strollo.
Luciano was imprisoned in Dannemora. He was treated fairly well there. While in prison he allegedly ordered the scuttling of the French ocean liner "Le Normandie" to demonstrate his power to American authorities. Following this episode, the US government allegedly asked Luciano to aid the 1943 American landing in Sicily in exchange for his freedom (see below).
World War II, freedom, and deportation
During WWII the U.S. government reportedly struck a secret deal with the imprisoned Luciano. U.S. military intelligence knew that Luciano maintained good connections in the Sicilian and Italian Mafia, which had been severely persecuted by Mussolini. Luciano considered himself to be a loyal American who was devoted to Sicily, the Mafia, and the USA alike. His help was sought in providing Mafia assistance to counter possible Axis infiltration on U.S. waterfronts, during Operation Avalanche, and his connections in Italy and Sicily were tapped to furnish intelligence and ensure an easy passage for U.S. forces as they moved up through the Italian peninsula. Both during and after the war, the U.S. military and intelligence agencies reputedly also used Luciano's Mafia connections to root out Communist influence in resistance groups and local governments.
In return for his cooperation, Luciano was allegedly permitted to run his crime empire unhindered from his jail cell. During the 1940s, Luciano used to meet US military men during train trips throughout Italy, and he enjoyed being recognized by his countrymen, several times taking photos and even signing autographs for them.
In 1946, as payoff for his wartime cooperation, Luciano was paroled on the condition that he leave the United States and return to Sicily. He accepted the deal, although he had maintained during his trial that he was a native of New York City and was therefore not subject to deportation, but was deeply hurt about having to leave the USA, a country he had considered his own ever since his arrival at age ten. Later that year, he flew to Cuba for the Havana Conference, where he retook control of the American syndicate. At the meeting, Luciano ordered the execution of Siegel, because of a misconception that Siegel was stashing away the Outfits loan for personal use. When the US government learned of Luciano's presence in the Caribbean he was forced to fly back to Italy.
Later years
In his later years, Luciano came into conflict with Lansky over the amount of money he was receiving from Mafia operations in the early 1960s. However, Luciano's failing health prevented him from putting up a fight in the matter. Luciano was also told not to promote or participate in a movie about his life, as it would have attracted unnecessary attention to the mob. He relented until after his girlfriend died of breast cancer, and was scheduled to meet with a movie producer arriving by plane at the Naples International Airport. As fate would have it, the man who engineered the assassination of Dutch Schultz and his gang would never live to see his own name in lights. On January 26, 1962, Lucky Luciano's luck finally ran out, and he died of a heart attack at the age of 64 at Naples International Airport. He was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Queens, where he was raised.
