On November 16, 1992, Buscetta testified before the Antimafia Commission presided by Luciano Violante about the links between Cosa Nostra and Salvo Lima and Giulio Andreotti.

Consequently, he was always protected by his mother, Amélia, and sought out the support of the experienced politician José Luciano de Castro.

Luciano, under the urging of former Chicago boss Johnny Torrio, set up the Commission to serve as the governing body for organized crime.

A short tour down the east coast included 2 sold out shows at City Winery in NYC, Ram's Head Tavern in Annapolis, MD and The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. John Lombardo has joined his former band mates on numerous occasions ; Buffalo-based singer / songwriter Maria Sebastian has also accompanied the band in 2011 and has been replaced in 2012 by Jamestown-based singer / songwriter Melanie Luciano on acoustic guitar and harmonies.

In 1927, Costello, Luciano, and former Chicago gangster John " Johnny the Fox " Torrio organized a group of top East Coast rum-runners into a large bootlegging operation.

: Casa del Vento, Fiamma Fumana led by Alberto Cottica ( electronic folk ); Caravane de Ville of Giovanni Rubbiani ; Ductia of Massimo Giuntini ; Paulem and La strana famiglia led by Luciano Gaetani ; and Cisco ( former singer of M. C. R.

* Lilia Luciano, former NBC News correspondent

In Istria, however, IDS is bitterly opposed by local branches of SDP, as well as their former member and first Istrian prefect Luciano Delbianco who had defected and formed a new party called Istrian Democratic Forum.

Ros-Lehtinen has defended former fugitive Velentin Hernández, convicted of murdering Luciano Nieves, a fellow Cuban exile who supported negotiations with the Cuban government, In the 1980s Ros-Lehtinen lobbied for the release and pardon of Cuban exile Orlando Bosch, who had been convicted of terrorist acts and has also been accused of involvement in the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455, which killed 73 people, helping organize an " Orlando Bosch day " to gain support for his release.

Luciano Menéndez, a former colonel, was convicted for crimes against humanity including the kidnapping and disappearance of a senator ( Guillermo Vargas Aignasse ) on the night of the golpe ( coup ).

Costello's bitter rival was Vito Genovese, a former underboss for Luciano.

Other Luciano lieutenants working mainland Italy included American deportees, Frank Barone and Giuseppe Arena in Rome, Frank Pirico, Frank Saverino and Giovanni Maugeri in Milan, Salvatore DiBella in Naples, and former Mangano crime family soldier, Joseph " Joe Peachy " Pici in Milan and Genoa.

* Charlie " Lucky " Luciano, former Luciano family boss, former chairman, co-founder and member of the Commission.

* Hymie Marks, who played the bit part of a gangster named " Joe " in the film, attracted the attention of executive producer Hal B. Wallis, who felt that he didn't look menacing enough – this despite the fact that Marks was a former gangster and henchman of Lucky Luciano, who had been specifically cast by director Lloyd Bacon because of that connection.

Central Park West is the address of several famous residences, including The Dakota ( where John Lennon lived with Yoko Ono, who still resides there, and outside of which he was murdered in 1980 ), The San Remo ( home to U2's Bono, Demi Moore, Diane Keaton, & Steve Martin ), The El Dorado, The Beresford ( home to Diana Ross & Jerry Seinfeld ), The Langham, The Century, 15 Central Park West ( home to Sting ), 41 Central Park West ( home to Madonna ), 455 Central Park West, The St. Urban, and The Majestic ( which was home to some of the former heads of the Genovese crime family, including Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello.

More recent celebrity stays include Paul McCartney, the Spice Girls, the Beckhams, George Best, Tom Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Mike Tyson, Jennifer Lopez, Prince Edward, former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as well as the current Prime Minister David Cameron.

Gambino, former Genovese bosses Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello, and Lucchese crime family boss Tommy Lucchese allegedly lured Genovese into a drug distribution scheme that ultimately resulted in his conspiracy indictment and conviction.

Extreme's former directors include Matt Zane, Ashlyn Gere, David Luger, Derek Newblood, Gene Ross, Jane Waters, Luis Cypher ( also known as Bobby Darlin ), Luciano ( Michael Stefano ), Scott Snot, Slain Wayne ( Eric Brummer ), Smiley Johnson, Tiffany Mynx, Tom Byron, Brandon Iron and Van Damage.

Praz was the son of Luciano Praz ( died 1900 ), a bank clerk, and his wife, the former Giulia Testa di Marsciano ( died 1931 ), daughter of Count Alcibiade Testa di Marsciano.

Her termination came on the heels of the end of her marriage to Peter Luciano, a business lawyer with Toronto firm McCarthy Tetrault and former member of Canadian boy band VIP.

Luciano also ran a number of casinos in Cuba with the sanction of Cuban president General Fulgencio Batista, though the US government succeeded in pressuring the Batista regime to deport Luciano.

Lansky quickly suggested that Luciano purchase a $ 150, 000 interest in the Hotel Nacional, a plush casino and hotel owned by Lansky and his silent partner, Cuban president Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar.

At Congress in 1999 in Västerås, a left-wing candidate, Luciano Astudillo, from SSU district Skåne, almost became president.

The commission included María Luisa Sepúlveda ( executive vice president ), lawyers Miguel Luis Amunátegui, Luciano Fouillioux, José Antonio Gómez ( PRSD president ), Lucas Sierra, Álvaro Varela and psychologist Elizabeth Lira.

* Luciano Bivar from the Social Liberal Party ( PSL ) – Businessman Bivar ran for president on smaller Social Liberal Party.

Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin.

* 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( b. 1925 )

* 1931 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1910 – Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist and composer ( d. 1994 )

** Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( d. 2003 )

* October 12 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor ( d. 2007 )

After this essay, he was called to assist Goffredo Alessandrini in making Luciano Serra pilota, one of the most successful Italian films of the first half of the 20th century.

Among those who have written their memoirs, the Italian Luciano Lutring ; he called his book of recollections: Il solista del mitra, or The machine-gun soloist.

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 ).

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.

Unlike other street gangs whose business was petty crime, Luciano offered protection to Jewish youngsters from Italian and Irish gangs for ten cents per week.

Luciano elevated his most trusted Italian associates to high-level positions in what was now the Luciano crime family.

On November 19, 1954, an Italian judicial commission in Naples applied strict limits on Luciano for two years.

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.

Unbeknownst to Luciano, Italian drug agents had followed him to the airport in anticipation of arresting him on drug smuggling charges.

This deal would secure the release of Luciano from prison ; in exchange, the Italian Mafia would provide security for the war ships that were being built along the docks in New York Harbor.

In 1922, Costello, Luciano, and their closest Italian associates joined the Sicilian Mafia crime family led by Joe " the Boss " Masseria, a top Italian underworld boss.

Italian singer Luciano Ligabue dedicated to the victims a song, inserted in his 2010 album,.

Luciano Caruso ( b. July 19, 1957 in Turin, Italy ) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer.

In 1966, Italian Disney comics artist Luciano Bottaro wrote a parody of Orlando Furioso starring Donald Duck, Paperin Furioso.

At the behest of Constanten, he studied under the Italian modernist Luciano Berio in a graduate-level course at Mills College in the spring of 1962 ; their classmates included Steve Reich and Stanford University cross-registrant John Chowning.