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Lucky Luciano

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Biography

Name: Lucky Luciano
Variant Name: Charles Luciano, Salvatore Luciano
Birth Date: November 27, 1897
Death Date: July 26, 1962
Place of Birth: Palermo, Italy
Place of Death: Naples, Italy
Nationality: American, Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: gangster

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Biography of Lucky Luciano
1,371 words, approx. 5 pages
Although he was once called "one of the 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20th century," Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962) was a mobster. His advice was sought after by world leaders, but he was still a kingpin of crime. He eventually...
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Biography of Lucky Luciano
259 words, approx. 1 pages
Charles "Lucky" Luciano was one of the most powerful figures in U.S. organized crime in the 1930s and 1940s. Luciano continued to prosper even after the federal government deported him to Italy in 1946. Luciano, whose original name was Salvatore...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Luciano, Lucky (1897-1962) Summary
641 words, approx. 2 pages
Sicilian-born Charles "Lucky" Luciano is renowned for initiating a new era in organized crime in the United States by establishing a national syndicate that aligned the Italian mafia with Jewish and Irish crime organizations in the 1930s....
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Luciano, Lucky
519 words, approx. 2 pages
(born Nov. 11, 1896, Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy—died Jan. 26, 1962, Capodicino Airport, Naples) the most powerful chief of American organized crime in the early 1930s and a major influence even from prison, 1936–45, and after deportation...
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Luciano, Lucky
142 words, approx. 1 pages
(born Nov. 11, 1896, Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy—died Jan. 26, 1962, Capodicino Airport, Naples) Italian-born U.S. gangster. He immigrated with his family to New York in 1906 and soon was involved in crime. In 1916 he conspired with Frank...
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Lucky Luciano Information
4,138 words, approx. 14 pages
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania) (November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was a Sicilian-American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the...


News and Journals
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ForeWord
The Case Against Lucky Luciano: New York's Most Sensational Vice Trial.(Book review)
07/01/2007: 541 words, approx. 2 pages
Work Title: The Case Against Lucky Luciano: New York's Most Sensational Vice Trial Work Author(s): Ellen Poulsen Clinton Cook Publishing 46 b/w photographs and illustrations, 240 pages, Hardcover $24.95 Crime ISBN: 9780971720015 Reviewer: Alan J. Couture ...
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The Boston Herald
Diners are lucky Luciano's has tasty chicken scarpariello.(Food)
04/25/2001: 644 words, approx. 2 pages
Q: I think the top restaurant in all of New England is Luciano's in Wrentham. We recently had the opportunity to dine there on a Sunday night. I had a dinner plate with chicken scarpariello that was fabulous! I would like to have...
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AP Features
Convicted mobster, 97, sentenced to 6 months of house arrest in upscale Fla. condo
5/25/2007: 252 words, approx. 1 pages
A 97-year-old mobster whose life of crime dates to the days of Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel was sentenced Friday to six months' house arrest on federal racketeering charges.Albert Facchiano, who was first arrested 75 years ago and is known as "The Old Man" and...
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AP Features
Convicted mobster, 97, gets 6 months of house arrest
5/25/2007: 288 words, approx. 1 pages
Albert "The Old Man" Facchiano, a 97-year-old whose life of crime dates to the days of Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, was sentenced Friday to six months of house arrest and 18 months of probation on federal racketeering charges.Afterwards, Facchiano said his days in organized...
 


 

Lucky Luciano

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