Charles Editors

“He was born and died in Italy, yet the influence on America of a grubby street urchin named Salvatore Lucania ranged from the lights of Broadway to every level of law enforcement, from national politics to the world economy. First, he reinvented himself as Charles ("Lucky") Luciano. Then he reinvented the Mafia. His story was Horatio Alger with a gun, an ice pick and a dark vision of Big Business.” – Edna Buchanan, Time

By the time he was 19, Salvatore had the first entry on a rap sheet that would eventually come to include over two dozen arrests for crimes ranging from assault to extortion and prostitution.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he [13] knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride