American Murder by Mike Mayo

Author:Mike Mayo [Mayo, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-57859-256-2
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 2008-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

Luciano, Charles “Lucky”

“Lucky” Luciano was the man who organized organized crime in America. He got rid of the last of the “Mustache Petes”—who’d been running things in New York’s Italian gangs in the early years of the twentieth century—and who had mired the business in near-continuous internecine war. Luciano’s goal was simple: he didn’t want to get mad; he didn’t want to get even; he wanted to get rich.

Born Salvatore Lucania in Sicily in 1897, he moved to New York with his family when he was ten. Right away, he started shoplifting and charging the littler kids a penny or two for “protection.” As the story goes, one kid refused to fork it over and put up a hell of a fight when Luciano showed him what he needed protection from. The kid was Meyer Lansky. He became Luciano’s lifelong friend and advisor, and he introduced the older boy to the ambitious, wild-eyed Ben “Bugsy” Siegel. The three of them went a long way together.

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