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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 six months in jail for selling heroin. Out of jail, he teamed up with Frank Costello and Meyer Lansky

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, Bess. Greenbaum was president of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, but when he returned frequently to Ph...

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