Arguably the most important gangster who ever lived was Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano, the street urchin who murdered his way to the top of the American Mafia in the early 1930s.

In time the Mafia became the largest organisation in America taking hundreds of millions of dollars a year and operated without the authorities having a clue that it ever existed until Joe Valachi started singing, 30 years later.

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