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Charles ("Lucky") Luciano -- Salvatore Lucania born Nov. 11, 1897, Sicily, Italy. In 1906 he immigrated to the slums of New York City. By 1911 he quit school in 5th grade but had a vision of replacing Sicilian strong-arm methods with a corporate structure, a board of directors and systematic infiltration of legitimate enterprise. Lucky
Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Gaetano Lucchese, Frank Costello and Carlo
Gambino were men of vision, honor and purpose -- which was to
steal, extort, embezzle and strong-arm as much money from as many
people as possible. VHS The American Gangster (1992) -- The story of how uneducated teenagers from ethnic slums of New York came to control an empire of crime by the 1950s. The focus is on Charles "Lucky" Luciano and associate Meyer Lansky, both tutored by legendary gambler Arnold Rothstein and went on to amass power and riches during the Prohibition. Ancillary characters, including Al Capone and Ben "Bugsy" Siegel, are profiled, and other outlaws such as John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd, who gathered headlines while real mobsters quietly consolidated their influence.
Kari & Associates Copyright Kari Sable Burns 1994-2006 |
Prohibition Today's Deals Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo by Peter T. Schneider, Jane C. Schneider -- Traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its 19th-century roots and late-20th-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the capital of Palermo regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and that repressing it risks harming vulnerable people and communities.
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