Lucky Luciano: Americas Most Famous Mob Bosses

I. Introduction

A. Amongst 25 other influential leaders during the 20th century, Lucky Luciano holds the title for Americas most infamous Mob Bosses. Luciano is most famously known for constructing the Mafia industry.

B. Luck Luciano single handedly construed the National Crime Syndicate and changed the face of organized crime. At a time when the mafia was nothing more than a secret underground organization that was deeply rooted in Italy, Luciano came and turned it into a strong cooperate partnership.

C. Lucky Luciano modernized the mafia cooperation.

II. Luciano lived the mob life to the fullest

A. Luciano came from the poverty and ruff streets of New York, since the age of ten years old he told himself that he would be more than a coal

miner like his father. He would become one of the most infamous criminal masterminds of all time.
1. "Behind every great fortune, there is a crime!"(Charlie "Lucky" Luciano), Lucky Luciano did whatever it was to make his income. His first encounter with crime stared in his young years.
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While in school Luciano would force student to pay him for protection, he thought that if he partnered with two other bigger students and coheres them to work for him he could make a business. If student didn’t pay him money then he would order his partners to inflict violence.

B. When Lucky Luciano was introduced to the mafia when he was the age of twenty; he soon started to work for Arnold Rothstein and they both built a close friendship and worked as partner in the drug and alcohol trade.

1. When the prohibition was established the demand for bootlegged alcohol was high, this was the perfect time for the mob to make a huge profit. Lucky was groomed by his boss Arnold Rothstein; he educated Lucky about running illegal alcohol and drugs as a small side business. He even invested his finance into Luciano with the hopes that he would make huge impact.

2. When Luciano started to make a living from his business he spent his money on cars, women, and the most lavish suits designed. There was a time when Luciano was busted for a drug deal gone terribly wrong. So to make up his mistake for he bought over 400 seats to the famous Dempsey boxing match. He gave the seats to every famous mobster and dirty politician.

C. He made tons of

money
1. By mid-1925 Luciano was making over 20 million dollars a year, he paid off officials and politicians. He profited off the largest bootlegging operation that stretched from Scotland to Cuba and Canada.
2. He was known to make a room go completely hushed when pulled out his wallet; with type of power money was no problem.

III. His rise to power
A. Rise to power was through murder
1. He had no problem with killing anyone he needed to; Luciano conquered the underground organization in 1931 after killing his boss and making a model of his death. Lucky didn’t do well with following rules and tradition, so when he was caught working for the Jewish mafia he got in a lot of trouble. It’s an old tradition that while working for the Italians you don’t do business with any other race