Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano is known as one of the greatest gangsters of all time. He was born in
Lercara Friddi, Sicily on November 11, 1896. His parents were Antiono and Rosalia
Luciana. He was born with the name Salvatore Lucinia. Luciano left Sicily with his
parents in 1906 on route to New York. Salvatore wanted to fit in so he called himself
Charles. His parents were never home, so he grew up on the streets. By the age of 9 he
was already involved in extortion, mugging, and shoplifting. At age 10 he was arrested
for shoplifting In 1916 at the age of 20 Luciano served a six month sentence for selling
heroin.
Jail didn't teach Charles a lesson. As soon as he got out he started to run around
with other gangsters. This is about the time he met up with Frank Costello and Meyer
Lansky who became legendary gangsters in there own right. Also at this time he obtained
the nickname that would last his entire life. He earned the nickname "Lucky" for being
able to allude police and his craps winnings.
By 1920 Lucky had made quite a name for himself in the underworld. He was
well respected by his peers. He joined the ranks of New York's fastest mob boss, Joe
Masseria. By 1925 he was Masseria's right hand man. He was in charge of bootlegging,
prostitution, narcotics distribution, and many other rackets. Everything was going great
for Lucky until October 1929. Lucky became one of the only gangstar's to survive a "one
way ride". He was abducted by four men. The men through him in a car. They took him
to the docks where the beat him, stabbed him repeatedly with an ice pick. Then the men
slit his throat from ear to ear and left him for dead. But Lucky proved his nickname true
by surviving the attack. He never named his abductors but, soon after the attack he
changed is last name to Luciano.
The bloody gang wars of 1930 and 1931 between Masseria and rival boss
Salvatore Maranzano was great for the young gangster's. Lucky saw a chance to take
charge and he went for it. He invited Masseria to a Coney Island restaurant and had him
assassinated by some loyalists Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, Joe Adonis, and Bugsy
Siegel. Lucky was done yet, six months later on September 10, he had Maranzano gun
Thomas C.Reese Aka Tottie the man once known as the godfather in the black underworld during
His mother was born to Italian immigrants while his father was an immigrant from Messina. He was sent to a reformatory for attempting robbery, where he learned Boxing. He began to wrestle professionally at the age of 19, in 1941.
himself in a defiant way and disobeyed all authority in his life. His brother Pete helped
Born on the 27th of October, 1940, to a blue collar family in the South Bronx, John Gotti was the fifth of 13 children born to Fannie and J. Joseph Gotti. The family’s income was less than consistent because of John’s father’s unpredictable work as a day laborer. After moving constantly, the family finally settled in East New York: an area notorious for its youth gang activity (“John Joseph Gotti Jr”, 2014). During his teenage years, Gotti became affiliated with the Gambino family, one of the “Five Families” that control most organized crime in New York (Jenkins). He started out as an errand boy for an underground club, where he met Aniello Dellacroce, who would eventually become his men...
his real father. A while after he ran away he traveling down a road when he saw
Alphonse Gabriel Capone was the most notorious bootlegger in American History. He was born on January 17, 1899 and died of a heart attack on January 25, 1947. Capone grew up in Brooklyn and became a member of the Five Points Gang. During a street fight he had received a scar on his face that gave him the nickname “Scarface”. Capone quickly moves up the ranks in the mafia world, often noticed for his toughness, in 1919 he grabbed the attention of mobster John Torrio of Chicago. Capone was promoted to bodyguard of the mob boss James Colosimo. When Capone moved to Chicago, bootlegging was just starting to blow up. These bootleggers pounced on the opportunity to completely control the business of making, importing, and distributing alcohol and all alcohol products. Alcohol wasn't the only flourishing industry for the the mob, they also did trade in
Luciano eventually knew that this meant someone else would take over as leader of the commission. Luciano grew impatient of not being in charge of the commission. To speed up the process, he had ordered the assassination of top New York crime bosses Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria and Salvatore "Little Caesar" Maranzano. On April 15, 1931, Joe Masseria was murdered at a restaurant called Nuova Villa Tammaro on Coney Island. Luciano was eating with Giuseppe at the restaurant, when Luciano excused himself to the restroom when other members of the commission came in and shot Giuseppe in the head. Luciano was apart of the whole entire plan. Maranzano was the next to be killed. Luciano arranged for Bugsy Siegel, Samuel "Red" Levine and two other gangsters provided by Lansky to go to Maranzano's offices on September 10, 1931, posing as accountants or tax men. Once inside his office on the 9th floor of the New York Central Building, they disarmed Maranzano's guards and the four men then shot and stabbed Maranzano to death. With Masseria and Maranzaon out of the way, Luciano took his rightful place leader oft the commission.
forced to kill. It ended up that he was the last one left on the island except
Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883 outside the village of Dovia di Predappio in the Northeastern Italian province of Forli. He had one sister and one brother. They always fought and argued over little petty things with each other. His sister name was Edvige and his brother’s name was Armaldo. His mother Rosa Malteni was a well respect and appreciated schoolteacher. His father Allesandro Mussolini was both a blacksmith and a committee socialist. He received his name "Benito" from the Mexican Revolutionary Juarez. Benito grew up as a delinquent, disobedient, and did not have any manners. He was a bully to the other children around him. He would get into numerous of fights with other children.
Alphonse Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York to Gabriele and Teresina Capone. He grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two gangs; the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. Alphonse did well at school until the 6th grade when he was expelled for retaliating against a teacher who hit him. He was fourteen at the time. He became part of the Five Points gang in Manhattan and worked in gangster Frankie Yale's bar, the Harvard Inn, as a bouncer and bartender. While working at the Inn one night, local gangster Frank Gallucio was drinking with his sister at the Harvard Inn. Capone approached the girl to compliment her, and Gallucio took offense to him started a fight. Gallucio pulled a knife and cut Capone's face three times. That is how "Scarface" came to be.
Born in 1889 in a poor Italian immigrant family. He became the protégé of Johnny Torrio who was the leader of the “five point gang”. Torrio retired in 1925 with Capone taking over. His involvements included gambling, bootlegging, prostitution and racketeering. In 1927 he was worth 100 million dollars.(Mike Chamernik, top 5 gangsters of Chicago) His most famous involvement was the valentine's day massacre by sending hired shooters to kill Bugs Moran’s rival gang. In 1931 he was sent to prison for tax evasion in 1947 he died. His rivals were the north side gang lead by Dion O’Banion a sing waiter turned mobster who double-crossed Capone’s mentor Johnny Torrio and got him sent to jail he was then killed by Capone’s order in 1924. After that Bugs Moran took over for Dion who was very colorful with the press and openly insulted Capone. Which inspired the Saint Valentine's day
Al Capone was one of the most known of all of the gangsters. He was one of the biggest gangsters in the underworld of chicago. Al capone was a sharp dresser a classy gentleman. Capone was the best at what he did. capone originally liyed in naples which is in italy .
Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn,Newyork. He moved to Chicago in 1920 to join the gang to make some money. He had a wife name mae capone who will stick with Al Capone side while he does illeagl crime to make some money for him and his wife. And he was invited to the gang in Chicago and work for them to earn the money.
The very famous gangster, Alphonse Capone also known as, “Al Capone” was born in Brooklyn, NY on January 17, 1899. Born from an Italian immigrant family, Al Capone rose to be one of the most famous gangsters of all time during United States’ Prohibition era. At the time his family moved into the US, he already had 2 other brothers before he was born. His father and mother were from Italy, Gabriele and Teresa, they moved in at a poor apartment where Al was later born. The place where he lived was a very law abiding place, where from a young age it was notable that he would grow up to be in a world of crime. Capone at a young age, went to a catholic school, where he was an outstanding student, and had a very promising
Some of these criminals are Al Capone, “Machine Gun” Kelly, and “The Birdman” Stroud. Al Capone was born in 1899 to Italian immigrants. Capone was convicted guilty of tax evasion on October 24, 1931and was taken to the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta when he was 33. He was given a ten year sentence in a federal prison and a one year sentence in a county jail. He was transferred to Alcatraz from Atlanta in 1934, the year Alcatraz opened. About four years after he arrived, Capone started having seizures and stayed in the prison’s hospital for the remainder of his sentence. On January 6, 1939 he finally left Alcatraz and on November 16, 1939 he was paroled out. Capone suffered from a stroke and then obtained pneumonia while at the hospital. On January 25, 1947, he eventually died of cardiac arrest at the age of 48. “Machine Gun” Kelly, born George Francis Barnes, Jr., was a troublemaker, even as a teen. He would go across state lines to buy liquor and even blackmailed his father. After his mother died, George got married, had two kids, and changed his last name to Kelly, out of reverence to his in-laws. Eventually he got divorced in 1926 and was imprisoned for stealing at the New Mexico state prison in 1927. He committed the same crime again, but was imprisoned at Leavenworth. Later, he got married to Kathryn Kelly and they went throughout the United States robbing banks. Eventually they moved on to kidnapping and