Lucky Luciano
Italian American mobster (1897–1962)
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The man who turned American organized crime into a business. Charles "Lucky" Luciano scrapped the old blood feuds, installed the Commission in 1931, and built the architecture that let rival gangs operate as a national syndicate instead of killing each other into extinction.
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Born Salvatore Lucania in Italy on November 24, 1897, he came up through New York's Five Points Gang and survived the Castellammarese War by killing his way to a new idea: abolish the single boss of bosses, create a board. He became the first official head of what's now the Genovese family. In 1936 District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey convicted him on compulsory prostitution charges — thirty to fifty years. During World War II the U.S. Navy cut a deal through his associate Meyer Lansky: naval intelligence in exchange for a commuted sentence. In 1946 they let him out on the condition he leave fore…
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