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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Luciano Story

The Luciano Story

Feder, Sid
Joesten, Joachim
Joesten, Joachim

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ISBN10: 0306805928
ISBN13: 9780306805929
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: Sep 1 1994
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
Two veteran crime reporters reveal the operations of organized crime, narcotics, and prostitution in a careful and precise manner.--Christian Science Monitor

No gangster has ever been more powerful than Charles Lucky Luciano (1897-1962). By the mid-1920s, he had taken over the New York bordellos and was making more than a million dollars a year. In 1931 he engineered the murders of the two reigning New York crime bosses, Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, and quickly took over the entire New York crime racket. Now Luciano was the Boss of Bosses, the undisputed leader of the National Crime Syndicate which he had established, along with Meyer Lansky, Louis Lepke Buchalter, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello, in the early 1930s. His fall came in 1936, when he was indicted on ninety counts of extortion and direction of harlotry. But in 1945 he was released in return for his cooperation with the U.S. Navy during World War II. He spent the rest of his life in Italy, where he ran the International Crime Syndicate, shipping millions of dollars worth of heroin into the U.S.

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