Leather seats lucky luciano biography

Born: November 24, , Sicily, Italy
Died: January 26, , Naples, Italy
Nicknames: Lucky, Charlie Lucky
Associates: Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, the Five Families, the Commission, Bugsy Siegel

Charles “Lucky” Luciano, born Salvatore Lucania in in Sicily, probably did more to create the modern American Mafia and the national criminal Syndicate than any other single man.

Luciano led a group of young Italian and Jewish mobsters against the older set of so-called “Moustache Petes,” and in the process set the stage for the Mob to grow beyond the limits of bootlegging profits to become, in the words of his friend Meyer Lansky, “bigger than United States Steel.”

Luciano, who moved to the United States and settled in the Lower East Side with his family at age 10, was recruited early into gangster life and was a member of the Five Points Gang in Manhattan.

Around the start of Prohibition in , he was recruited as a gunman by Giuseppe “Joe the Boss