Organized crime has been a part of history since the late 1800's.
bit amazing that these enterprises of people get together to commit strings of .
crimes. The Cosa Nostra or better known Mafia, started to establish in .
America at the dawn of the 20th century. They even had there own union. It .
was called the Unione Siciliana. This helped Sicilian immigrants learn .
English and the American ways. One of the most famous mobsters to use .
this was Salvatore Lucania or better known as "Lucky" Luciano.
Born Salvatore Lucania, was born in 1897 in Lercardia Fridda, Sicily. .
The town was known for extreme sulfur mining that took place and was just .
a bit smaller than the largest town in Sicily. Crimes and bad ways was .
something that Luciano carried with him his whole life. Growing up trouble .
seemed to always found him. Luciano's parents soon made the hardest .
decision of there lives and left all they new to come to the land of .
opportunity, America (Cambell,233). .
The Luiciano's left for America in 1906 and would reach it November .
that same year. Soon they would realize that Charles would just dig himself .
into a deeper hole of trouble. As an early teen he started his first racket. He .
would protect Jewish kids on the way to school from getting beat up for a .
penny or two a day. If they didn't pay he beat them up. During this racket .
only one kid didn't pay. A skinny polish kid named Meyer Lansky. Luciano .
was shocked of how hard this kid fought back and they immediately built a .
friendship that would last the rest of their lives. .
In Luciano's late teens he moved on to bigger and better things. He .
started dealing narcotics. At eighteen Luciano was convicted of trafficking .
heroin and morphine and convicted to a six-month term in a reform school. .
When released he resumed dealing. .
In 1916 Luciano was known to be the leader of the Five Points Gang. .
He was also linked to numerous murders (4,Crimelibrary) . As time passed .
Luciano's gang grew.