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Lucky Luciano, byname of Charles Luciano, original name Salvatore Lucania, (born November 11, 1896, Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy—died January 26, 1962, Naples), the most powerful chief of American organized crime in the early 1930s and a major influence even from prison in 1936–45 and after deportation to Italy in 1946. Luciano emigrated with his parents from Sicily to New York City in 1906 and at the age of 10 was already involved in mugging, shoplifting, and extortion; in 1916 he spent s...

Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II, tells a story the US Government kept secret for decades.

Jewish mobsters showed up to intimidate and fight the German American Bund and other Nazi organizations from New York to Chicago to Minnesota and even Los Angeles.

Sixty years ago, the grisly killings of the Riviera Hotel’s president and his wife stunned Las Vegas — and would haunt the casino industry for a generationThe ranch-style home at 1115 Monte Vista in the upscale Encanto neighborhood of Phoenix was quiet when the housekeeper arrived just before noon on Wednesday, December 3, 1958. High blood pressure and a bad heart kept Mrs. Pearl Ray from working full-time, but she enjoyed cleaning and cooking for Gustave “Gus” Greenbaum and his wife, Be...

DailyMail.com spoke with former high-profile mobster attorney and former mayor of Las Vegas Oscar Goodman, 82.

This is Part 4 to a five-part series. [Refer here for Part 1 and Part 2, the latter which goes over how the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement Post WWII was Bought and Paid for by the CIA. Part 3 is essential reading prior to this paper, which...

An interview with Robert and Eytan Rockaway, who collaborated on the screenplay for Eytan’s recently released biopic, Lansky.

Somebody, they had to get my permission. i mean, thats how stupid these people were. >> anthony: anthony "the ant" spilotro, meyer lansky, these were gentlemen not unknown to mayor goodman. >> oscar: well, a lot of people will tell you that this was a better place when the mob was running it. and in many ways, thats true. >> anthony: there, there were rules then that mattered. you know the old saying -- what happens in vegas stays in vegas. and when the mob ran things, there was a certain -- urg...

When gambling—excuse me, “gaming”—was normalized, we lost a vital moral dimension to our ideas of political economy.

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