INGLESE
- INTRODUCTION
This section speak about the figure of the boss Lucky Luciano and its cooperation with the American allies to facilitate the landing in Sicily during second world war.
- LIFE AND CRIMINAL ASCENT
Charles “Lucky” Luciano was born on November 24, 1897 and he was called Salvatore Lucania. He was born in Lercaria Friddi, in Sicily, from Antonio e Rosalia Lucania. His family emigrated in New York, in USA, when his was ten years old. When he was still adolescent he formed his first gang. He was arrested 25 times on various charges from 1916 to 1936, but he was never put in prison.
In the early 1930s Luciano and his gang took over some prostitution activities in New York. The state prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey took advantage of the situation to fight against organized crime. Luciano was arrested and condemned to stay from 30 to 50 years in prison.
During the Second World War, the USA government stipulated an agreement with Luciano: he had to use his connections to give information to the Fleet in exchange for the commutation of his penalty. The boss Lucky Luciano collaborated to the USA war effort, with the aim to prevent allies from attacks and riots by communists and Sicilian trade unionists, who had started to reorganize themselves, after the Fascism fall. At the end of the War, on January 3, 1946, the USA government recognized impunity for “special credits” to Lucky Luciano, with the prohibition to return back to the USA. On February 28, 1946, Lucky arrived in Naples.
Luciano in Naples, putting ”Camorra” into contact with “Cosa Nostra” and transforming it in an international criminal organization. Despite the increasing of surveillance, Luciano coordinated a big enlargement in drugs traffic to USA. At the end of the military campaign, the Allies had to face the problem of Sicily administration. Many mobsters so, thanks to Lucky Luciano’s interference, managed to enter the key positions of Sicilian government .
On January 26, 1962, at the age of 64, Luciano died of heart attack at the International Airport of Naples. He was buried in St. John’s Cemetery, in Middle Village Queens , near New York.