Lucky Luciano

A detailed Summary of Lucky Luciano

He's often called the greatest mobster ever to live. Although Lucky Luciano didn't go about it in a legal way he had his mind set on wealth and that's what he went for. Lucky was able to climb the ladder to become the boss of bosses in the mafia world and he took a whole new look at the way he wanted things to be ran. With the help of his childhood friend he would bring the mafia world together and halt the fighting between the main mafia families in America. Through his brilliant mind and his ways of violence he would begin to organize crime in new and radical ways, which would lead to the way organized crime was thought of and seen forever.

Charles "Lucky" Luciano started with an honest job when he was seventeen, he was delivering ladies hats for man named Max Goodman. This all changed though when he met George Scanlon, a popular drug dealer that worked Lucky's part of town. Lucky was interested in Scanlon's life style and asked if he could work for him. Scanlon decided to give him a chance and Lucky started to deliver heroin in the bands of the hats he was delivering for Goodman. It was making him some easy money, but it wasn't long before it caught up with him. A friend of Lucky's who was j

Bootlegging was very popular during prohibition in 1920, and it made many gangsters a lot of money. Lucky was able to make his way near the top of the bootlegging industry through acquiring many infamous connections like: Guisseppe Doto "Joe Adonis", Waxey Gordon, and Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1918 World Series. With connections like these Luciano and his partners were able to run an empire of bootlegging. This consisted of plants, distilleries, trucks, and warehouses all for the sale of illegal alcohol (murderINC.com). While others in the industry had to use small speedboats to offload the mother ships, Luciano and Lansky's contacts enabled them to dock their ships in New York harbor for easy transport of the alcohol to the speakeasies, illegal bars where people could go and have a drink (Buchanan-Part 1). Luciano was quoted as saying:

ealous of his money tipped off the cops and he was arrested outside of a poolroom, a popular hangout for addicts and pushers, and sentenced to a year in Hampton Farms Penitentiary. He was paroled six months later and that was his last arrest for twenty years and his start in the big time (Gosch & Hammer Pgs.14-16).

Lucky came to and when he recovered formulated his plans. Lucky met Masseria for dinner at an Italian restaurant about five months later and toward the end of dinner Lucky went to the bathroom. While there four gunman came into the restaurant and shot Masseria to death, this execution made Maranzano the boss of bosses, and made Luciano next in line (Nichols Pg.7).

Throughout prohibition Lucky had his mind set on being the top boss in the mafia world and this would soon happen. Luciano was wo

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