His first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss Lucky Luciano on whatever charges could be found.

In 1936, LaGuardia had special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, a future Republican presidential candidate, single out Lucky Luciano for prosecution.

* 1897 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( d. 1962 )

* November 24 – Lucky Luciano, Sicilian-American Mafia boss ( d. 1962 )

* January 26 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster ( b. 1897 )

Dewey, the District Attorney for Manhattan, had risen to national fame as the " Gangbuster " prosecutor who had sent numerous infamous Mafia figures to prison, most notably Lucky Luciano, the organized-crime boss of New York City.

However, New York crime boss Lucky Luciano and the " Mafia Commission " decided that Dewey's murder would provoke an all-out crackdown.

By the late 1930s Dewey's successful efforts against organized crime — and especially his conviction of Lucky Luciano — had turned him into a national celebrity.

Masseria had Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis, Carlo Gambino, Albert Anastasia and Frank Costello on his side.

He appeared in several Italian films, including Hands Over the City ( 1963 ) and Lucky Luciano ( 1974 ) ( both Francesco Rosi's ), and also Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite ( 1971 ).

* Lucky Luciano ( 1974 )

Davis began work on Marked Woman ( 1937 ), as a prostitute in a contemporary gangster drama inspired by the case of Lucky Luciano.

The town was a haven for gangsters in the 1930s, including longtime resident Owney Madden and Lucky Luciano.

* Bill Graham as Charlie " Lucky " Luciano

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

Sinatra would later testify about this in court, but announced that he didn't know any Carlo Gambino, but it got to a point where he had to explain why he was attending the Havana Conference in Cuba in 1946, showing up with $ 2, 000, 000 in a silver suitcase and a picture that showed Sinatra, Charles " Lucky " Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, and Carlo Gambino having a drink by a pool.

Gambino was also the only mob boss of the Five Families who attended the burial of the longtime friend " Lucky " Luciano.

Charles " Lucky " Luciano ( pronounced ; born Salvatore Lucania November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962 ), was an Italian-born, naturalized American mobster born in Sicily.

It is not clear how Luciano earned the nickname " Lucky ".

* Lucky Luciano ( 1973 ) – Luciano was portrayed by Gian Maria Volonté

* The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano ( 2011 ) – based on the book, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano by Martin Gosch and Richard Hammer is currently in the works.

* Third Time Lucky ( 1948 )

In early 1948, Luciano met Igea Lissoni, an Italian nightclub dancer 20 years his junior, whom he later described as the love of his life.