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Charles "Lucky" Luciano (pronounced ; born Salvatore Lucania〔http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/350578/Lucky-Luciano〕 November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962), was an Italian mobster in the United States. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of the first Commission. He was for many years the head of the modern Genovese crime family. He was, along with his associate Meyer Lansky, instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States. Luciano was tried and successfully convicted for compulsory prostitution in 1936 after years of investigation by District-Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Luciano was given a thirty year prison sentence, but was allowed to live his life freely outside of the United States when he struck a deal with the government during World War II while still imprisoned. ==Early life== Salvatore Lucania was born on November 24, 1897 in Lercara Friddi, Sicily.〔(Birth Record )〕〔Critchley, David ''The origin of organized crime in America: the New York City mafia, 1891–1931'' (pp. 212–213 )〕 Luciano's parents, Antonio and Rosalia Lucania, had four other children: Bartolomeo (born 1890), Giuseppe (born 1898), Filippa (born 1901), and Concetta. Luciano's father worked in a sulfur mine in Sicily.〔 In 1907, when Luciano was nine years old, the family immigrated to the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Lucky Luciano Biography )〕 They settled in New York City in the borough of Manhattan on its Lower East Side, a popular destination for Italian immigrants. At age 14, Luciano dropped out of school and started a job delivering hats, earning $7 per week. However, after winning $244 in a dice game, Luciano quit his job and went to earning money on the street.〔 That same year, Luciano's parents sent him to the Brooklyn Truant School.〔Stolberg, p. 117〕 As a teenager, Luciano started his own gang and was a member of the old Five Points Gang. Unlike other street gangs whose business was petty crime, Luciano offered protection to Jewish youngsters from Italian and Irish gangs for 10 cents per week. He was also learning the pimping trade in the years around World War I. Around this time, he also met Meyer Lansky, his future business partner and close friend. It is not clear how Luciano earned the nickname "Lucky". It may have come from surviving a severe beating by three men in the 1920s, as well as a throat slashing. This was because Luciano refused to work for another mob boss.〔 From 1916 to 1936, Luciano was arrested 25 times on charges including assault, illegal gambling, blackmail and robbery, but spent no time in prison. The name "Lucky" may have also been a mispronunciation of Luciano's surname "Lucania". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucky Luciano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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