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Tagliapanna, Silvio
Tammany Hall
Tammaro, Anna
Taormina
tax evasion
Teamster union
tenements
Tijuana, Mexico
Tiscornia immigration camp
Tobey, Charles W.
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

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