Charles Luciano Research Paper

The Teflon Don, The Dapper Don, known by many names and feared by all is John Gotti. Formerly, the most powerful crime boss in not only the United States but also the world. Gotti was considered to be one of the most powerful crime bosses in the world and he was the head of the most powerful, largest,wealthiest, successful, influential, dangerous and feared syndicate in the world. The way he stayed on top is by brute force, extreme violence, murder, intimidation and fear. During his time in power, he gained $500 billion a year which was the most in the criminal empire from all illegal actions. John Gotti was so powerful and feared that the United States Department of Justice said he had to be one of the most dangerous people in the world.

The Gambino crime family is one of the five families in New York City. The Gambino crime family is one of the most infamous criminal organizations committing crimes such as racketeering, extortion, money laundering and prostitution. In 1957, the family expanded its power after Albert Anastasia was gunned down while sitting in a barber chair in Manhattan. The Gambino family was named after crime boss Carlo “Don Carlo” Gambino also known as “The Godfather”. He was the boss known for keeping a low profile and reigned from 1959 through 1976 when he died of a heart attack. As the organization grew bosses like Paul Castellano and

Al Capone, who was born in New York in 1899, was one of the most prominent gangsters in America in the 1920s. He was the son of Italian immigrants, and after leaving school at a young age, became a small-time criminal. Known as ‘Scarface,’ he had links to the leader of the Five Points Gang, Johnny Torrio, and moved to Chicago in 1920, where he gradually rose through the ranks as a partner in saloons, gambling and brothels. They moved their operations to Illinois after an offer to work with Jim Colosimo, a central figure in Chicago’s brothel business. Gang rivalry heated up after a dispute between Torrio and Colosimo over whether to begin in the bootlegging business, and in 1920, Colosimo was murdered allegedly by Al Capone. After this, Torrio’s criminal empire expanded massively throughout Chicago, before leaving in 1925 and handing over operations to Capone. After taking over, Capone expanded operations even further, and was able to control Chicago’s Mayor, ‘Big Bill’ Thompson and fix his elections. A local newspaper from the time reported

met Lucky Luciano during a fight that Meyer Lansky was having with an Irish kid.

Even though many recognize Al Capone as a nuisance, he did well for the people in the community. Better known as Scarface he left a huge impact on the world after he died. The ones who showed respect got respect and the ones who didn’t got what he thought they deserved. Capone wrecked havoc in Chicago, Brooklyn and Florida. He was the reason for the collapse of the law and order in the United States during the early 1900s. Capone’s rise in the gang world was tremendous.

Gotti became the leader of the gang, but unlike other gangs, was not concerned about territory. His gang was mostly into higher levels of criminality that dealt with fencing stolen goods, stealing automobiles and rolled drunks. While a member of the Fulton-Rockaway Boys, he was arrested five times however all his charges were reduced to probationary sentences. Later in life, Gotti marries Victoria DiGorgio. However marriage does not slow down John Gotti Jr. On a yearly basis, John Gotti committed crimes and was convicted of them. Several of the crimes ranged from grand larceny, hijacking, and murder. Though Gotti was convicted for several of the crimes, he proved to be a model inmate and was released on good behavior. In 1980, John Gotti tragically loses his son Frank when his bike was hit by their neighbors' car. Later, the neighbor was forced to move because of the constant retaliation from the Gotti family and friends.

“Born of an immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York in 1899, Al Capone quit school after the sixth grade and associated with a notorious street gang, becoming accepted as a member. Johnny Torrio was the street gang leader and among the other members was Lucky Luciano, who would later attain his own notoriety.

Capone’s family were a tight-knit Italian family. There was nothing in Capone’s childhood or family life that could have predicted the rise of America’s most notorious gangster. Robert Schoenberg author of ‘Mr. Capone’ had said, “...No reason to believe that any of the children would grow up to be anything other than perfectly respectable and they

Luciano was had a vision of creating a national crime syndicate and to do so he needed to dismiss the bosses that did not care much about their men. The first two victims of this plan were Giuseppe “Joe the boss” Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano. After the assignation of these two bosses Luciano was free to begin realizing his dream of creating a national crime syndicate across the country. Luciano dream succumbed when convicted on prostitution charges and sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison. Thomas E. Dewey how was the prosecutor in charge of Luciano’s case became the governor of New York. Dewey sought out Luciano’s help during WWII to get the underworld to provide security to the docks. The involvement of Luciano with Dewey helped Luciano get released from prison and deported back to Italy. While in prison Luciano kept running the syndicate, however, he knew that it was going to be hard to keep running it from Italy, so he moved his headquarters to Cuba. Later the government learned of his

The way Luciano was living and the amount of money he was making made officials wary

In 1969, the Sicilian Mafia Commission was reformed and mafia criminal activity started to pick up again. By the early 70s, Luciano Leggio had proved himself to a valuable member to the mafia. He had seven assassinations under his belt, was Don of the Corleone Family, and one of three members of the revived Sicilian Mafia Commission. He was man feared even by his fellow Mafiosi due to his short temper. Often Leggio would send his trusted second-in-command, Totò “Shorty” Riina, to represent him at meetings.

In the 1900’s, Luciano Leggio reinvented the way mafia and crime worked. He used new methods which brought him to become one of the most powerful men in a very mafia influenced community of Corleone. What made him different from other crime bosses had a lot to do with his recruiting methods. He initiated men not strictly from Corleone, but instead men who were already “men of honor” and kept their identities hidden from their family and other members of other Mafia groups. Leggio got his start when he was hired as an estate guard in the 1940’s where his crime riddled life immediately began. He started to take money from local landowners and take advantage of many people but eventually progressed to the livestock business. With the livestock

Neither of them dare go to Florence since Flavio told him the story of what happened to their parents and how their mother was pregnant with Andreotti or 'Firenzeia' and they both despise the place because of it. It makes Flavio sad though, because he's always wanted to design for Gucci. One time Luciano was home from his job as a cook at a restaurant and got a call from his Grandpa, he could only make out a couple of words in Italian until he heard a Germanic laugh and the phone hung up. Luciano grabbed what he could from the kitchen counter- which so happened was a butter knife he had been sharpening out of boredom- and ran straight down the street to his grandpa's house.

Luciano came to the United States of America with his family in 1906. He was not able to speak English and had trouble in school. He would rather learn about how to make it on the streets of New York’s Lower East Side than anything related

It was on a Friday on his way home from work that Salvatore’s life-course would take a turn for the worse; Not by bad luck but by a stroke of good luck. Salvatore gambled his seven-dollar weekly wage and wound up winning $244 in a game of alley craps. In turn Salvatore adopted the nickname “Lucky” and, instead of going to work the next day, Luciano would go to the alleys.