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workings of organized crime. Charles Luciano became the father of the modern American mafia. Charles Luciano lived the hard childhood experienced by the children of almost all immigrants. On November 24, 1897, Charles Luciano, christened Salvatore Lucania, was

operations were controlled by Giuseppe “Joe The Boss” Masseria, whose faction consisted mainly of gangsters from Sicily, and the Calabria and Campania regions of Southern Italy. Masseria’s faction consisted well know gangsters such as Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Albert “Mad Hatter” Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Alfred Mineo, Willie Morettie, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello. The Castellammarse faction in the United States included members such as Joseph “Joe Bananas” Bonanno, Stefano “The Undertaker” Magaddino

Palazzo Farnese, as designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, is still one of Rome’s most impressive palaces. It was built in a time where there were several guidelines established for Renaissance architecture, which show in the way the palace was designed. The façade is perfectly symmetrical and several elements in the plan are symmetrical as well. The palace has three levels, which was characteristic for Renaissance palaces. Unlike earlier Renaissance palaces, all levels have the same height

give him payments for protection from himself (PBS par. 2; Carter 179). Thus began Siegel’s transformation to a true mafia man running around with “Lucky” Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and the Murder Inc. which Siegel himself created (Southwell 212; PBS par. 4; Carter 180; Bugsy Siegel Encyclopaedia par. 2). Siegel was on top of the world he

selling liquor will become the gateway for these men to becoming gangsters. Through the years of the Prohibition three men would lead the gangster into a new style of organized crime unseen ever before. Al Capone, Dutch Schultz and Charles "Lucky" Luciano became the big three gangsters that led the era into a new direction of organized crime. Although many gangsters came from an impecunious and or illiterate families, Al Capone’s family was an educated family. His father, Gabriele, was educated and

"bugs", fictitious name that meant that he was a crazy mother-fucker. At some point during bugsys' late teenage years, he met Charlie Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, two men who would who would become indispensable in crime career. Bugsy and Meyer Lansky met Lucky Luciano during a fight that Meyer Lansky was having with an Irish kid. Lucky Luciano noticed that the Irish kid was the same guy who had killed Luckys' buddy so when lucky notice him pulling out a knife, he took it from him and

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.

This is the connection of Charles "Lucky" Luciano and the US government during World War II. While locked up, he was continually reading the newspaper reports of Allied victories and "Lucky" got annoyed. He wanted to be part of the action and if the U.S. government was appreciative of his help against the enemy agents in his homeland, then they’d be knocked out if he got his hands dirty and volunteering for active duty. The accounts from Meyer Lansky, was he had figured it out already. He would

Charles “Lucky” Luciano Picture a person, someone with amazing leadership abilities, someone that has the potential to do virtuous things for the world. Now, I want you to picture this person wasting his/her talents by making unethical life decisions. Choices that caused harm to thousands of people. Now, imagine that the same person, and they actually think that what they do is ethical and that they didn’t waste their talent. Would that be frustrating? Charles “Lucky” Luciano was born in Sicily,

United States. One of the most nutorious gangsters besides Al Calpone, was a man named Charles Luciano. He is know in history as the Father of Organized Crime. Luciano was involved in the killings of the city’s top two Mafia bosses and brought about fundamental changes to organized crime, setting up the Five Families to