The Cool Cunning of Lucky Luciano
5 min readSep 21, 2019
How he used assassins dressed as federal tax agents to wipe out a rival
Born Salvatore Lucania in Sicily in November 1897, the future brains of the New York City mafia took the name Charles Luciano after he was arrested for dealing heroin and his parents disowned him. By the 1930s he was known as “Lucky” Luciano, although no one can say with certainty what prompted the nickname.
