Lucky luciano [ mafia boss ] ~ biography with photos

Charles "Lucky" Luciano is an American mobster who split New York City into five crime families, heading the Genovese crime family himself. He also initiated The Commission, which served as a governing body for organized crime nationwide. Luciano moved to Havana and was later deported to Italy, living out his final years in Naples.

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Born Salvatore Lucania in Sicily in , Luciano became one of the most notorious criminal figures of the 20th century. He came to the United States with his family in Not able to speak English, Luciano struggled in school. One of Luciano's first rackets was getting his schoolmates to pay him for protection. If they didn't cough up the money, he was liable to give them a beating himself.

Luciano dropped out of school in and graduated from other offenses. While he worked as a clerk for a hat company for some time, he managed a budding criminal career as well. The teenaged Luciano befriended Jewish gang members Meyer Lansky and his associate Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel , who would become two of his most important allies.

He also became affiliated with Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria's criminal operation. Luciano got involved in dealing drugs, which led to his first major run-in with the law in He was caught selling heroin and served six months at a reformatory for the crime. During the s, the prohibition of alcohol created opportunities for criminals to make a lot of money.