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    Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was an influential Italian-American mobster who helped establish modern organized crime in the United States. He started his criminal career as a teenager in New York by forming his own gang. Later, he became involved in bootlegging alcohol and illegal gambling during Prohibition. Luciano eventually took over the criminal operations of Joe Masseria and ended a war between Mafia families. However, he was later convicted of narcotics trafficking and deported to Italy, where he continued his criminal activities until his death.

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    Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was an influential Italian-American mobster who helped establish modern organized crime in the United States. He started his criminal career as a teenager in New York by forming his own gang. Later, he became involved in bootlegging alcohol and illegal gambling during Prohibition. Luciano eventually took over the criminal operations of Joe Masseria and ended a war between Mafia families. However, he was later convicted of narcotics trafficking and deported to Italy, where he continued his criminal activities until his death.

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    Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was an influential Italian-American mobster who helped establish modern organized crime in the United States. He started his criminal career as a teenager in New York by forming his own gang. Later, he became involved in bootlegging alcohol and illegal gambling during Prohibition. Luciano eventually took over the criminal operations of Joe Masseria and ended a war between Mafia families. However, he was later convicted of narcotics trafficking and deported to Italy, where he continued his criminal activities until his death.

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    Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was an influential Italian-American mobster who helped establish modern organized crime in the United States. He started his criminal career as a teenager in New York by forming his own gang. Later, he became involved in bootlegging alcohol and illegal gambling during Prohibition. Luciano eventually took over the criminal operations of Joe Masseria and ended a war between Mafia families. However, he was later convicted of narcotics trafficking and deported to Italy, where he continued his criminal activities until his death.

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    Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano

    Background:

     Born in Italy on November 24, 1897


     Had four siblings
     When Luciano was 10, family came to the US
     Settled in Manhattan, New York
     Age 14 dropped out of school and started selling hats earning $7 a week
     Won $244 in a dice game, quit job and went to earn money on street
     As a teen, started own gang who protected Jewish youngsters from gangs for 10 cents a
    week
     Got nickname Lucky from surviving a severe beating from three men
     Considered father of modern crime in the US for splitting New York into five Mafia
    crime families

    Crimes Accused of Committing:

     1920’s During Prohibition he was involved in bootlegging alcohol


    o Bootlegging is importing alcohol illegally and selling it
    o Biggest bootlegging business in New York
     Also involved in illegal gambling
     Late 1920’s became top aide in Masseria organization
    o Masseria organization was one of the Mafia’s five families lead by Joe Masseria
     Masseria organization was involved in Castellammarese War which lasted from 1928-
    1931
    o Resulted in 60 mobsters deaths
     Luciano ended the war by having Masseria and his two associates come to lunch with
    him, hired four gunmen to shoot them
     On September 10, 1931, learned Maranzano was planning to kill him, so Luciano shot
    him first
     On February 10, 1946, Luciano was deported from the US and went back to Italy
     Arrested in July of 1949, on suspicion of shipping narcotics to New York
     June 1951, question on suspicion of bringing $57,000 in cash and an American car to
    Italy
     Over the course of his life Luciano was arrested 25 time on charges like illegal gambling,
    blackmailing, and robbery, but never did jail time

    Most recent crime:

     Luciano met with a partner he didn’t trust ,Genovese, in a hotel and paid an American
    drug dealer 100,000 to falsely involve him in a drug deal
     Genovese was convicted of violation of federal narcotics laws and sent to prison for 15
    years
     In 1962, Italian drug agents had followed Luciano to the airport to arrest him, but he died
    of a heart attack

    Quote:

    “There’s no such thing as good or bad money. There’s just money.”

    I believe that the Differential-Association theory best applies to Luciano. This is when
    criminal behavior is learned when interacting with others. As a teenager Luciano started his first
    gang. This gang offered protection to Jewish youngsters from other gangs in exchange for ten
    cents a week. He met his first business partner there from this gang.

    Later in life Luciano started working for another gangster, Rothstein. He became Lucky’s
    mentor and taught him gambling and helped him in the bootlegging business. When Luciano
    ruined his reputation in a drug deal, his mentor helped him. He told Lucky to buy boxing match
    seats and give them to various politicians and gangsters. Before the fight his mentor took him
    shopping to buy him high end, classy clothes for the fight. This strategy worked and Luciano’s
    reputation was saved. According to Luciano, Rothstein taught him how to dress.

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