Letz, Albert
Levine, Samuel “Red”
Levy, George Morton
Lewis, Norman
Li Causi, Girolamo
libel
Liguori, Ralph
conviction of
indictment of
prostitution trial and
retrial and
sentence of
Lipski, Herman
liquor. See also Prohibition
Lissoni, Igea
Little, Brown & Co.
“Little Augie the Wop.” See Del Grazio, August
Little Man (Lacey)
Lucchese, Tommy
Luciana, Antonio (father)
disapproval of
gun incident and
as immigrant
move of
Luciana, Bartolo (brother)
Luciana, Francesca (sister)
Luciana, Giuseppe (brother)
Luciana, Rosalie (mother)
Luciana, Salvatore, as birth name
The Luciano Project (Campbell)
The Luciano Story (Feder and Joesten)
Luciano’s Luck (Higgins)
Lucks, Al (alias of Albert Letz)
Lucky Luciano (Rosi)
Lumia, Luigi
Lupino, Stanley
Lupo, Ignazio “the Wolf,”
Lyons, John
Maas, Peter
MacFall, Roscoe C.
MacManus, Jack “Eat-’em-up,”
Madges
Mafia (Reid)
Magaddino, Stefano
Majestic (ship)
Mancino, Rosario
Mancuso, Bill
Maneri, Salvatore
Manfredi, John
Mangano, Vincent
Castellammarese War and
murder of
role of
Maranzano, Salvatore
Castellammarese War and
kidnapping of Luciano and
killing of
as refugee in America
Margo, William
Marinelli, Albert
Marked Woman (movie)
Marsloe, Anthony J.
Il Martello (newspaper)
Martinez, Jose
Masseria, Joe “the Boss”
killing of
Salvatore Maranzano and
Thomas Dewey and
Umberto Valenti and
Vito Genovese and
working for
Mauro, Vincent
La mazzetta
McClellan Committee
McCook, Philip J.
McCue, John
Medalie, George Z.
Merlin, Lina
Mexico
Milano, Ciccio
Milazzo, Gaspar
Miller, David
Miller, Glenn
Miller, Robert V. (Count Duval)
Miranda, Carlos “the Goat,”
Miro, Henry
Missing Witnesses (movie)
Mitchell, Nathan H.
Mobsters (movie)
Mogul of the Mob (Lansky)
Momo (bodyguard)
Montana, Nick
Monte Cammarata
Monzelli, Luke
Morcos, Giorgio
Morello, Ciro “Artichoke King,”
Morello, Peter “the Clutch,”
Morello gang
Moretti, Salvatore
Moretti, Willie
bootlegging and
drugs and
murder of
as undesirable
visit by
Mori, Cesare
Morris, Mary
Mortimer, Lee
Moses, Afghan
Mott Street Mob
movies
Mr. Big. See Rothstein, Arnold
Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc. (movie)
Mussolini, Benito
Napoletano, Carmine
Narcotics Bureau
Narcotics Control Act of 1956,
Narcotics Division
narcotics trafficking
after World War II,
Arnold Rothstein and
arrest for
Cuba and
Germany and
Hollywood and
lack of power in
rumor of efforts to disrupt
Navy
assistance of mobsters and
invasion of Sicily and
Normandie sinking and
Nazi party. See also World War II
Nelson, Bat
New Hampton Farms Reformatory
Nigger Mike’s bar
The Night of the Sicilian Vespers
Nitti, Frank
Normandie (ship)
O’Banion, Dion
O’Dwyer, William
Office of Strategic Services (OSS). See also CIA
Oliver Twist (Dickens)
omerta
On the Waterfront (movie)
Operation Husky
Operation Underworld
opium. See also Drug trafficking
Oriental Park Racetrack
Orlova, Gay
OSS. See Office of Strategic Services
Palace Chophouse
Pantaleone, Michele
Paradiso, Charles
Parigi, Luigi
Paruth Realty Corporation
Pasha, T. W. Russell
Pearl Harbor
Pennochio, Tommy “the Bull”
indictment of
prostitution and
prostitution trial and
Penthouse magazine
Perlman, Nathan
Perrano, Joseph
Pertierra, Indalecio
Pertusi (in Trieste)
Peters, Ernest
Petillo, Anna
Petillo, David “Little Davie”
conviction of
Dannemora and
indictment of
Pete Balitzer and
prostitution and
Thomas Dewey and
Pici, Joe
Pierre Hotel
pinball
Pitt, Brad
poisoning of horses
poisoning rumor
Polakoff, Moses
berating of for defense of Luciano
Frank Costello and
lack of accuracy of books and
prostitution trial and
World War II and
Poletti, Charles
Pollaro, Gaspar
pool
Porgamin, Yedis
Presser, Nancy
Prince, Arthur
Prince, Benjamin
prison
at Dannemora
heroin and
release from
Profaci, Joseph
Prohibition
Prostitution
bonding and
Cockeyed Louis and
the Combination and
continued involvement in
conviction for
indictment for
Jimmy Fredericks and
trial for
protection rackets
Purple Heart
Puzo, Mario
Quinn, Anthony
racketeering
Ragen, James M.
Rago, Lorenzo
Raimondo, Joe “Cock-Eyed,”
Red gangsters
Reed, Charles (alias)
Reid, Charles (alias)
Reid, Ed
Rennell (Lord). See Rodd, Francis Rennell
Resko, John
Resta, Cesare
retrial
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (movie)
Rivas, José Suarez
Rizzo, Adriana
Roberts, Kiki
Rocco (Saint), feast day of
Rodd, Francis Rennell
Romano, Giovanni
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roselli, Johnny
Rosen, A.
Rosi, Franceso
Ross, Charles (alias)
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Roth, Tim
Rothstein, Arnold
Ruark, Robert C.
Rubino, Henry and Theresa
Russo, Giuseppe Genco
sabotage
St. John’s Cemetery
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Salter, “Nigger Mike,”
Salvatore (nephew)
Salvatore Giuliano (movie)
Sanchez, Jorge
Savalas, Telly
Scaduto, Tony
Scalise, Anthony
Scarface (movie)
Schiapparelli case
Schiffert, Edward
Schley, Gustave
Schultz, Dutch
Arnold Rothstein and
Diamond brothers and
Prohibition and
Thomas Dewey and
as undesirable
Schuster, Arnold
Scibilia, Francesco
Scimone, Francesco
Scudato, Tony
separatism
sex business
bonding and
Cockeyed Louis and
the Combination and
continued involvement in
conviction for involvement in
indictment for involvement in
Jimmy Fredericks and
trial for
Shapiro, Jacob “Gurrah”
ships
Bakir
Baltic
Bastia
Laura Keene
Majestic
Normandie
shootings
Shylock business
Sicily
drug trafficking and
invasion of
post-World War II,
Sidewalk Café
Siegel, Benny “Bugsy”
Big Six and
business and
Cuba and
exile of Luciano and
James Ragen and
Joe “the Boss” Masseria and
killing of
Meyer Lansky and
Prohibition and
Thomas Dewey and
Vincent Coll and
Simms, Charles
Sinatra, Frank
Sing Sing
Siragusa, Charles
SIS. See Special Intelligence Service
Slater, Christian
slot machines
Smashing the Rackets (movie)
Smith, Al
Snake Pit nightclub
Socarris, Francisco Prio
Socialists
Sondern, Frederic
speakeasies
Special Intelligence Service (SIS)
Special Military Plan for Psychological Warfare (Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Spiller, Benny
spying, Japan and
Stacher, Joseph “Doc,”
stolen goods
street cleaners
strikebreakers
strikes
submarines
Suchowlkansky, Maier. See also Lansky, Meyer
Sufrin, Solomon
sugar
syndication
Tagliapanna, Silvio
Tammany Hall
Tammaro, Anna
Taormina
tax evasion
Teamster union
tenements
Tijuana, Mexico
Tiscornia immigration camp
Todd, Thelma
Tommy the Bull. See Pennochio, Tommy “the Bull”
Torriani, Angelo
Torrio, “Terrible” Johnny
Al Capone and
Arnold Rothstein and
convention and
discretion of
Prohibition and
Towns, Charles B.
Tracy, Spencer
trade unions
The Traffic in Narcotics (Anslinger)
transatlantic mafia alliance
Treager
Tresca, Carlo
trials
Trieste
truancy
Trupia, Vincent
Tucci, Stanley
Turkey
Turkus, Burton
Uffner, George
unions
United Nations
U.S. Narcotics Bureau
U.S. Narcotics Control Act of 1956,
Valachi, Joseph
Eugene Giannini and
Morello killing and
Peter Maas on
Salvatore Maranzano and
Vito Genovese and
Valenti, Umberto
Van Bransky, Joseph
Vanning, Johnny
venereal disease
Villalba
Vitaliti, Rosario
Vizzini, Calogero
Vizzini, Sal
Volonté, Gian Maria
Volstead Act
Voluntary Army for Sicilian Independence (ELVIS)
Wagner, A.F.
Wahlberg, Mark
Waldorf-Astoria
Wall Street Crash of 1929,
Walsh, James “Fats,”
Warner, Sam
On the Waterfront (movie)
Watkins, A.E.
Weiner, Al
as booker
extortion of
guily plea by
indictment of
Weiner, “Cockeyed” Louis
West, Roland
Wexler, Irving (Waxey Gordon)
Arnold Rothstein and
bombing of Lansky and Siegel and
death of men working for
indictment of
Thomas Dewey and
Wharton, Wallace S.
White, George
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (movie)
Wilde, Peggy
wire service business
The Witness (movie)
The Wolf. See Lupo, Ignazio
Workman, Charlie “the Bug,”
World Series, attempt to fix
World War II
drugs and
invasion of Sicily and
Normandie sinking and
recruiting mobsters for help during
sabotage during
stolen goods after
Zwillman, Abner “Longy”
Big Six and
Casablanca Club and
death of
Prohibition and
syndication and
Thomas Dewey and
Typical old New York City tenement block on First Avenue, between East 13th and East 14th Streets. The Lucania family first lived in this area when they arrived in New York. It is on the northern boundary of the Lower East Side in an area now called the East Village. To the south of them was Little Italy and Chinatown. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION
Luciano’s family home at 265 East 10th Street, New York City. Luciano left home in his teens, but regularly visited his parents here until they moved out in 1933. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION
Police photograph of Luciano at his most powerful. It was taken in 1931 after his arrest for felonious assault. The police record calls him Charles Lucania “Lucky,” residing at 265 East 10th Street. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN NEWSPAPER COLLECTION/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Police photograph of (from left to right) Ed Diamond, Jack “Legs” Diamond, Thomas “Fatty” Walsh, and Charles Lucania (aka Luciano), taken when Luciano was making a name for himself as a bootlegger and gunman. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN NEWSPAPER COLLECTION/ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Corner of East 12th Street and Second Avenue, New York City, where Luciano shot Umberto Valenti, gunman rival to Joe the Boss, in August 1922. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION
Police photograph of a young Meyer Lansky. One of Luciano’s most important associates, he oversaw the business interests of the Mob. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN NEWSPAPER COLLECTION/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Frank Costello in 1935. An early friend of Luciano who became a key figure in the Mafia thanks to his political contacts. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN NEWSPAPER COLLECTION/LIBRARY
OF CONGRESS
Joe “the Boss” Masseria, a dominant mobster in late 1920s Manhattan. Luciano worked for Masseria until Luciano had him murdered in 1931 and took over his crime family. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN NEWSPAPER COLLECTION/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Thomas E. Dewey, the young district attorney who put Luciano in jail in 1936. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN NEWSPAPER COLLECTION/ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The Waldorf-Astoria, the grandest hotel in New York City when it opened in 1931. Luciano lived in a luxurious apartment suite in the Waldorf Towers. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION
Luciano handcuffed to Jimmy Fredericks, one of his codefendants, during their trial in 1936 for running a prostitution racket in the city. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN NEWSPAPER COLLECTION/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Diagram showing how Luciano was linked to the mobsters running prostitution in Manhattan in the early 1930s. This was part of the evidence against Luciano assembled by Dewey and his staff. NYC MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES
Lieutenant Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden was in charge of the U.S. Naval Intelligence operation that used Luciano and his Mob associates to protect the East Coast against German saboteurs. HERLANDS INVESTIGATION
Bugsy Siegel, close friend of Luciano, was killed by the Mob in his Beverly Hills mansion in 1947, for misusing their funds in Las Vegas. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN NEWSPAPER COLLECTION/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Don Calogero Vizzini was a leading Mafioso in Sicily and was associated with Luciano during the first years of his exile in Italy. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION
The Grand Hotel Et Des Palmes in Palermo was the smartest hotel in Sicily in 1947 and was the favorite place for Luciano to stay when he was on the island. It later hosted an infamous meeting of Mafiosi in 1957 to organize the illicit transatlantic narcotics trade. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION
The legend begins—pulpfiction–style cover of The Luciano Story, first biography of the mobster, published in 1955. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION
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