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By September 1931, Maranzano realized Luciano was a threat, and hired Vincent Coll, an Irish gangster, to kill him; [33] however, Lucchese alerted Luciano that he was marked for death. [33] On September 10, Maranzano ordered Luciano, Genovese and Costello to come to his office at the Helmsley Building in Manhattan.
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Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families and the establishment of the first commission. He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family (Excelsior Hotel, Rome).
However, in September 1931 Luciano struck first. Several Jewish assassins provided by Luciano associate Meyer Lansky murdered Maranzano in his office. Luciano now became the most powerful mobster in New York. Luciano kept the family structure as created by Maranzano, but removed the boss of bosses in favor of a ruling body, The Commission.
In a secret deal with Maranzano, Luciano agreed to engineer the death of his boss, Masseria, in return for receiving Masseria's rackets and becoming Maranzano's second-in-command. [3] On April 15, 1931, Luciano had lured Masseria to a meeting where he was murdered at a restaurant called Nuova Villa Tammaro on Coney Island .
Anthony Strollo "Tony Bender", Genovese crime family Capo, former gunman and lieutenant in the Luciano crime family and head of criminal operations in Greenwich Village; January 26 – Lucky Luciano (Salvatore Lucania), New York mobster and founder of the National Crime Syndicate and La Cosa Nostra Commission.
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Sam Giancana - Original photo with Frank Sinatra and Phyllis McGuire, Shotgun, original coroner's report after his murder; Tony Spilotro - Guns & Knives, funeral mass cards, original photos & home videos, original death certificate; Lucky Luciano - 1927 Studebaker; The attraction was opened as the Las Vegas Mob Experience in March 2011.