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Charlie Lucky


 Vincent Piazza from HBO's Boardwalk Empire and Charlie Lucky toward the end of his life


Meyer Lansky, Luciano friend and business partner


Joseph "Joey Socks' Lanza who ran the waterfront for Luciano


Luciano






Don Vito, Vito Genovese, a Lucaino contemporary


After Luciano fell from power, Frank Scalise was killed in gangland fashion, in a fruit and vegetables store in the Bronx. The scene was replayed in the film The Godfather. Scalise was said to be Luciano point man in the drug business.


The bootlegger has a beer


Frank Costello, Luciano contemporary


Joe Profaci, the Godfather, a Luciano contemporary


Forced retirement






Hotel Nacional de Cuba, site of the syndicate meeting that ended the career of Charlie Lucky

"They got Charlie Lucky because they said he was a pimp. Charlie was a boss, he wasn't no pimp...can you imagine that?" Joe Valachi





Luck runs out for Charlie Lucky, dead of a heart attack at the airport



Tommy Luchese, a Luciano contemporary


Luciano shortly before the heart attack that killed him


Charlie Lucky gets departed from Cuba


Joe Adonis,a Luciano contemporary


Charlie gets used to life at the Excelsior Hotel, Rome


Arnold Rothstein, the criminal mastermind who gave Luciano his start





                                                          Rothstein gunned down in New York

Luciano, 3rd from left with Meyer Lansky on his right.


Charlie Luciano, far right. To his left Fats McCarthy and John Nolan AKA Legs Diamond


Charlie Luciano wanders off during his deportation hearings


Charlie Luciano and his lawyers


Home sick. Luciano buys a coke from a Roman street vendor


Charlie Lucinao leaves a Paddy Wagon under heavy guard from US Marshals


Luciano's funeral


Charlie Luciano on the links outside Rome


Luciano's Italian issued passport


Charlie Lucky leaves his 22 room suite in Rome