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Dragos doubles back toward the house and avoids the town completely. He takes a small trail which leads south. The crisp air is refreshing and the woods are still but for the crunching of snow beneath his horse’s hooves. Firs and spruces line the pathway with their low hanging branches due to the weight of snow. The further south Dragos rides, the denser become the trees. Soon they are so thick that any effort from the sun to melt the snow is fruitless. Every time they pair ride uphill, the limbs

money. There’s just money.” - Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, Lucky Luciano one of America’s notorious gangster. He was a criminal with a slow uprising to becoming top boss. He vanquished his rivals with brutal force. Salvatore Lucania was a brutally organized Italian born crime boss who greatly influenced the American society during his time. Luciano’s interest in crime started at the age of 4. He was born by the name of Salvatore Lucania in Sicily, Italy 1897 (Lucky Luciano). He was born in a peaceful city

Lucky Luciano “Lucky” Luciano was born originally as Salvatore Lucania in Sicily, Italy, on November 24th, 1897. In 1906, Lucania immigrated to America with his family at the age of nine. Lucania was not able to speak English in school and preferred to spend his time making money on the streets in the Lower East Side of New York. One of Lucania’s first crimes was forcing his classmates to pay him in exchange for protection. If they did not oblige, he would physically beat them. Some time after

Luciano Vargas was born into an Italian family that travelled all over Italy. He was specifically born in Venice which earned him the nickname 'Veneziano' from his older brother by two years, Flavio. Flavio was born in Rome and wanted his younger brother to call him 'Romano' because of it. Luciano is the opposite of Flavio in many ways, including appearance. Flavio is much more cheerful and more mainstream influenced than Luciano, who finds both of these attributes extremely annoying. Since four

Mafia 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”

be better than his father was (Carter 179). Eventually, Siegel began forcing peddle cart vendors to 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

highest mob bosses the person during Prohibition. The restriction of alcohol had created a tremendous business opportunity. Rothstein "understood the truths of early 20th century capitalism - hypocrisy, exclusion, greed - and came to dominate them". Lucky Luciano, the boss of the Italian-American Mafia once said that Rothstein "taught me how to dress" (Rockaway). The stereotypical attire of the American mobster portrayed in movies can trace its roots directly to Rothstein. He was a man who although

In his first appearance on the show Meyer Lansky gives a very earnst and well-worded but fake business proposal, forces someone to shake his hand (and thus acknowledge him) and muses on the future importance of the petrol industry, all of which allow for a good character defining moment. His main motivation and driving force through out the series is his own ambition to gain money, power and respect. While it 's not not hard to connect this ambition to a childhood of poverty and ethnic oppression

Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel was a very well know mobster around America. “Born in Brooklyn New York on February 28, 1906, Bugsy Siegel built a criminal empire through bootlegging, gambling and ruthless assassinations before setting up shop in Las Vegas” (Biography). Siegel started his crimes at a young age, and with his neighborhood under gang violence throughout his youth, there was an answer to all his problems. Siegel had parents of Jewish descent. As stated by Biography “As a teenager, he extorted

cooperating with law enforcement is the right thing to do. The Gevonese crime family is one of the strongest organized crime families in the country and is one of the “Five Families” of New York. In the 1930’s, the family was established after Charles Lucky Luciano but was reestablished after Vito Gevonese took control in 1957. The family is unique in the fact that they have had just five members testify against them as witnesses for the state in their history. Their regard for Omertá has protected them