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Charles " Lucky " Luciano (/ ˌluːtʃiˈɑːnoʊ / LOO-chee-AH-noh, [ 1 ]Italian: [luˈtʃaːno]; born Salvatore Lucania [salvaˈtoːre lukaˈniːa]; [ 2 ] November 24, 1897 [ nb 1 ] – January 26, 1962) was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States. He started his criminal career in the Five Points Gang and was ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Final Years and Death. Luciano's luck ran out in 1936. He and eight members of his vice racket were brought to trial that May. Convicted on extortion and prostitution charges in June, he was ...
Dec 2, 2009 · Lucky Luciano’s Early Years . Luciano was born Salvatore Luciana in 1897 in the Sicilian sulfur mining town of Lercara Friddi. When he was 10 his family immigrated to New York, where by age 14 ...
Apr 23, 2024 · Luciano was the first boss of what would come to be known as the Genovese crime family and he helped form the governing body of the Mafia called the Commission, which continues to exert power in the criminal underworld today. This is the dramatic, turbulent, and blood-soaked story of Lucky Luciano, the father of the American Mafia.
- Carly Silver
Lucky Luciano (born November 11, 1896, Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy—died January 26, 1962, Naples) was the most powerful chief of American organized crime in the early 1930s and a major influence even from prison in 1936–45 and after deportation to Italy in 1946. Luciano emigrated with his parents from Sicily to New York City in 1906 and ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 15, 2019 · Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania; November 24, 1897–January 26, 1962) was instrumental in creating the American Mafia as we know it today. After graduating from the gritty street gangs of New York, Luciano went on to become a henchman for the American branch of the infamous Cosa Nostra. A criminal mastermind, it was Luciano who ...
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Died: January 26, 1962, Naples, Italy. Nicknames: Lucky, Charlie Lucky. Associates: Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, the Five Families, the Commission, Bugsy Siegel. Charles “Lucky” Luciano, born Salvatore Lucania in 1897 in Sicily, probably did more to create the modern American Mafia and the national criminal Syndicate than ...
