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1 Charles Luciano: Up with the Gang in the Game. Isaiah J. Wright Pioneer Jr. Sr. High School U.S. History Mr. Erik Riise January 29, 2024 2. Luciano was born on November 24, 1897; he was a young boy born into a crime family. He started committing crimes at the age of four years old, starting with petty crimes such as stealing food from a store, vandalism, and so much more. In 1906, Luciano and his family moved to the United States to try and start a better life for Luciano. Since he lived in Italy at the beginning of his life Luciano came to the U.S. not being able to speak English, with this issue Luciano struggled in school. Luciano disliked school so much that he started to learn most of his tips and tricks from the streets of …show more content…

Luciano then received a 30 to 50-year prison sentence, the longest ever handed down for such a crime (Feder, 1954). He was incarcerated in the Dannemora Prison in New York, called the “Siberia” of organized crime (Feder, 1954). 5. Luciano always had a loving passion for crime and never gave up on it through thick and thin. With the love for crime came the problem of not being able to have a love life because most women don’t want to date the boss of a crime family (Feder, 1954). As he kept going with crime he started to find out that more people would stay out of his way, which didn’t help him trying to find love (Feder, 1954). He decided to finally slow down with the crime life and search for someone who would love him and not be afraid (Feder, 1954). After searching and searching, he finally found someone who would love him (Feder, 1954). Luciano met Italian ballerina Igea Lissoni in 1948, someone he loved and desired. Despite their 20-year age difference, the couple fell in love, and it was reported the following year that they had married, although others claim that wasn't the case (History.com Editors, 2009). Regardless, the couple's life in Naples was tumultuous, as

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