Lucky Luciano Research Paper

Salvatore Lucania was born on November 24, 1897 in Sicily, Italy; almost ten years later, he began a new life of crime and prosperity in New York City’s lower east side. Upon arrival, he could not speak english; he bullied the other kids into paying him for protection and participated in drug dealing. One day, Lucania was abducted, beaten, stabbed, and left for dead; miraculously, he survived. This rather fortunate recovery led him to become known as Lucky Luciano (“Lucky Luciano Biography.com.” Edited by Biography.com, The Biography.Com website, A&E Television Networks, 17 June 2015, www.biography.com/people/lucky-luciano -9388350). In 1916, he became the leader of the Five Points Gang and continued to make a name for himself. During these early years, Luciano was in and out of jail-- mostly for getting caught dealing drugs.

Luciano’s men shot, stabbed, and killed Maranzano before he showed up. With Luciano now in charge he wanted the business to be different. He didn’t care who was involved as long as they had skills and knowledge; no longer did it matter if you were Italian. He started working with Meyer Lansky to build his empire and make the most money

Once the organized crime families were established they were the main contributors to the illegal “Bootlegging” of alcohol. During the 20’s there was a great deal of violent crimes. Most of them could be connected back to the organized crime families. Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone was a gangster who led illegal activities such as the smuggling and the bootlegging of alcohol during the prohibition. Even though he had a tough exterior he was a caring man he was the first to open up a soup kitchen in Chicago (hammer). Capone’s estimated annual revenue was around 100 million dollars. He had many men working for him such as Frank Nitti, August Pisano and Louis Morganno. He supplied Chicago with most of its alcohol. (Capone: the man and his era).

During the Second World War, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was the leader of the Italian Nationalist Fascist government. He was head of the Italian government from 1922 till 1943. The significance of Mussolini is that he played a key role acting as the Italian Prime Minister and established a totalitarian regime, during this time, as the unchallenged supreme leader, known as ‘Il Duce’. Fascism consisted of many contributors of which Mussolini with all his quirks was the key to most of its failures and successes, making him the most significant player that is worthy of being investigated. This topic is worthy of being investigated as Mussolini made a lot of decisions that lead to the death of many, but the question as to

Alphonse was destined to a life of lawlessness from a young age. In his adolescence, he lived the life of an Italian Immigrant. Sequestered to predominantly Italian boroughs, education was lackluster and the influence of the Italian mob was ever present. However, Capone's education played a key role in his development. As Kobel states in his novel, it was here at school where Capone met another future mob boss. Another Italian delinquent youth at the time, Salvatore Lucania, also known as Lucky Luciano. (Kobler 23) Capone continued to live a moderately normal life until his expulsion from school at age fourteen. He worked side jobs around Brooklyn

With Chicago’s government being weak and easily to extort, Capone and Torrio began a business together through bootlegging, gang violence, and gambling in houses called deuces. At the beginning of the 1920s, James Colosimo was in charge and making the most money. Colosimo effectively developed profound political associations, by becoming a precinct captain in the First Ward Aldermen Coughlin and Kenna, and later turning into the bagman (authority of illicit benefits and container of fixes) in the vice laden Levee District, which gave him political insurance from any prosecution. He and Torrio also ran a very successful group of racketeers. This gang would become a crime organization called the Outfit through Al Capone syndicate. According to the PowerPoint, Colosimo did not want to be a part of the bootlegging business. Torrio disagreed stating that it was his opportunity and wealth. When Colosimo returned from his honeymoon, he was shot and killed in his own café. Many were led to think Torrio paid Frankie Yale to get rid of Colosimo. Torrio became the head leader and created a huge criminal empire through bootlegging. He shaped a new gang cartel that allocated the bootlegging industry ensuring product stability and higher profits.

He was one of the most infamous bootlegger of the time. Capone was seen as “a man who benefitted most from the Prohibition by making as much as $100 million a year by running distilleries and breweries that supplied booze to speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, and brothels”(Kallen 108). Many of Capone’s breweries were disguised as warehouses. “A general rule in Capone’s breweries was a production quota of turning out one hundred barrels of beer every day”(Kallen 117).Since he was such a big mobster of the illegal production of alcohol, it meant the authorities were always on the lookout for him. A specific agent Capone needed to stay clear from was Eliot Ness. “Ness was a special agent of the U.S Department Of Justice and head of the Prohibition bureau in Chicago”(Kallen 108). “Elliot and his nine-man squad of agents were known as the “untouchables” because they could not be bribed”(Kallen

The 1920s was a very eventful time period for the US crime scene. With the emergences of major crime bosses like Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Charles Luciano, and others there was much to be done in the crime world. Charles “Lucky” Luciano (born as Salvatore Lucania) would become a key player in the reshaping and modernization of the mafia and the crime world. Young Luciano would show signs of pursuing a criminal career. His parents and family however disapproved of their son’s action and career path and essentially exiled him, respecting his family’s wishes he would later change his name from Salvatore Lucania to Charles Luciano. He also by the age of 10 he involved extortion, and thievery. Upon his arrest for the distribution of drugs in 1915, the police would offered to release him if he would tell them what he knew about the mob, Luciano however refused to talk due to the Sicilian code of silence, this action would vastly considered pivotal in fast tracking his career in

This could have possibly been one of the causes that led to the death of George Turino. More people who made them who they are now is Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello and they were two of the only people who Anastasia trusted completely. Once he told Luciano “Charlie, I have been waiting for this day for at least eight years...With you there, that’s the only way we can have any peace and make the real money” (Anastasia, Albert). Those two individuals held Anastasia back from become the real “Mad Hatter” and because of them Anastasia thought of his decisions more often, until they both left him. It’s not very difficult to start crime on the Brooklyn docks like Anastasia did, he joined the longshoremen's union once he entered the United States and became a hit man for them until he started to gain power and then killed George Turino. Then he was sent to a death house for 18 months and was later freed, the only lesson that he might have learned was to be more careful when he killed because he continued to do what he did, but didn’t get caught. One thing that he would have to had overcome was fear in general because if others saw him a fearful leader then nobody would take him seriously and especially since he ran Murder

John “Teflon Don” Gotti was a man some look up to or think he was public enemy number one. He was the head of the Gambino crime family or mafia in New York. A South Bronx native, Gotti was born October 27, 1940. He would become the most notorious man in the area dealing with the law a numerous amount of times.

Description: Nancy was found raped and strangled to death in the bathtub of her apartment. They found a cord and a piece of horse hair in her bedroom at the crime scene. Just the week before her death Fiorenza had come to her house to fix her couch and claimed to not go into the bedroom. But once they linked the fibers from the couch to the bedroom brought in by Fiorenza… they knew that he did and they questioned him and then he admitted to the brutal crime and was put on trial and convicted and was executed.

The American Mafia rose to power during the prohibition. They gained most of their power by entering the bootlegging business, and ended up becoming a huge

20-year old Al Capone was selected to run the business in Chicago. Robert Schoenberg author of ‘Mr. Capone’, believed Torrio’s thought of Al where, “...This is someone who will succeed me one-day am going to bring him along”. Al Capone had worked his way up the ladder and had supposedly started off a bartender/bouncer. Al Capone working at Colosimo’s night club where liquor was greatly consumed and he wanted to sell bootlegged liquor along with Torrio, unfortunately Big Jim (Torrio’s boss) was against the idea and thought he was rich enough. Big Jim stood in the way of Torrio’s idea to expand, therefore he had to be eliminated.

History has shown that rulers of nations may be consumed by the absolute control over their people; consequently, leading them to adopt strict regulations for the citizens of their country. Fascism was commonly used to construct uncompromising laws over the population of certain provinces. Benito Mussolini was highly known for assembling firm regulations to form his Italian empire. As documented by Jesse Greenspan (2012) Mussolini’s violent outbursts were evident since childhood.

One of the most successful Mafia bosses involved in bootlegging and prostitution was Charles "Lucky" Luciano. He was born in 1897 in Sicily, Italy. At the age of 9 he moved to the Lower East Side of New York. In 1920 he began his own prostitution