Charles Luciano: The Richest Mafia Gangster To Ever Live | Mafia's Greatest Hits

Charles "Lucky" Luciano had an influential role in shaping organized crime in America. Amongst mobsters, he was seen as a strategic leader who transformed the mafia into a structured and lucrative enterprise.
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[@geraldjonhson2657]

I really wish I could watch a show or movie where the music isn't louder then the words it takes the joy rite out

[@fredlabozzetta7556]

Wht don't you pay for premium then no adds it's great

[@georgeedward1691]

Then maybe you should pay for cable or satellite tv like the rest of us then...smh

[@user-zr1sh2fo8e]

Or Make his own documentary 😂

[@fngrusty42]

Well I pay for everything... youtube cable. Prime , Netflix, HBO, and a few more. He's right the music is to loud and the captions are never right or cut short. You all with very good ears are lucky. This man wrote the truth and the rest of you saying it can be better dont know what your talking about.

[@helenmason-ym9kp]

​@@user-zr1sh2fo8e111111111111111

[@AndrewRobertson-kl4vi]

Watched this when it was first on the TV but ill still watch it again.

[@JamesSpiveySr]

8th

[@pjuggle]

Fascinating documentary, very well edited and informative. Learned much new here today.

[@wilkat4evr]

Great documentary

[@svetlanaandrasova6086]

Here I am, finding myself to admire a gangster

[@thisisme3238]

Gotta admit, he is good looking.👀

[@keithdupree9339]

Much better to admire Jesus than murderous trash

[@johnhood5274]

I’m not admire gangster, but I would say I’m learning some of their moves. Just in case I see it and I would know what to do and how to do it.

[@keithdupree9339]

@@johnhood5274 their moves however are not approved by God But they are approved by Satan Remember God is your Father who approves what is good for you as all things are possible for God Wake up to the truth my brother

[@davidfrontini829]

I love watching the Mafia stories.

[@JoseGarcia-vs1fb]

Fantastic. 👍💯

[@jseasterman]

I worked with the niece of Lucky Luciano. Italians are hardworking, all American people with integrity. They look after their neighborhoods and take care of widows and orphans. I think the mafia does too. At one time they did.

[@keithdupree9339]

Does that include the murderers also ?

[@vortex162]

@@keithdupree9339 the crime families look after their murderers!

[@hooddeals2564]

Do you remember her name?

[@robbie604]

Integrity is a word with many definitions. It is Tough to find people who fit that definition in the world we live in today that word is seldomly ever used because you have to be picture-perfect to be classified with Integrity Lou Gehrig is an individual who had integrity on and off the field so much so even Babe Ruth regretted ever having a bad falling out with Lou Gehrig

[@EverythingNetwork1]

love these

[@kevinwatkins6615]

It was so terrific...

[@Dr.Claw_M.A.D.]

Prohibition wasn't about the temperance movement. That was Henry Ford and JP Morgan barring ethanol. Petroleum is heavy sludge its only after a great deal of processing that you get gasoline. A half acre of reed, hemp, and such grass you can make enough ethanol for a average family car to last a year. Petroleum is used in plastic, medicine. If the average family starting growing thier own fuel, including burning it to make electricity then his monopoly of Standard oil would be in jeopardy. Same with outlawing hemp. Marijuana was the excuse. Pharmaceuticals, ethanol, plastics.

[@leelaaiyappa6277]

Really grear post

[@michelbenidorm2787]

A Must See 🤓👌🏻👊🏼

[@awiladen7814]

The best🙏🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴

[@mainamwareri6984]

Forget about lived. He eventually died. Death is final and irreversible. None is too tough in the eyes of death.

[@tudorDaDefender]

That’s hands down the dumbest analogy of life.

[@JimmyKnight-ql4yf]

What they mean is he wasn't murdered or took out, he died as an old man of a heart attack! No one would dare have the balls to try and take Lucky out! He controlled it from prison, when he got deported , controlled it always!

[@INJEMBI]

​@@JimmyKnight-ql4yfhe died trying to meet a producer trying to turn his life story to a movie, tell me he died because of old age.

[@JimmyKnight-ql4yf]

@@INJEMBI I stand corrected, I had actually forgot that , thank you for reminding me. Your right, my friend.

[@dfsgfghgfh]

This should be a meme.

[@frasermackenzie7275]

Lucky also was given the task, from a Sicilian Godfather, to watch over Sinatra Sr. and wife who had just emigrated from Sicily to NYC and eventually watched over the future Frank Sinatra's early childhood days.

[@angelchavez458]

THATS FAMILIA ITS NOT THAT WAY NOW GREED SELFISHNESS

[@user-ob7tg9wu5v]

Lovely 😎💥

[@morganosborne9258]

He was a remarkable man, but such a shame his capabilities were put to such awful uses. One can only imagine what he might have accomplished had he and some of the other family members teamed up in legitimate businesses and politics.

[@ApeAlchemist]

Remember how this video sort of pointed out that the government and the mafia have the same business model? :P

[@smartbomb7202]

he was a murdering scumbag...it's is simple as that

[@buckyb7658]

Ha politics!!! Hellooo,politics IS the modern day mafia!

[@am5790]

thugs and savages being thugs and savages.

[@ianmaund5223]

They’d of got done for laundering mafia money 😂😂😂

[@charlesgraham9954]

if u came to me at 25 and said u can live a regular life, or u can have money, cars and poosy for 35 years as a gangster, but at the end of the 35 years u gotta go to fedral prison, sign me up to be a gangster. lmfao.

[@Chefmarcellett]

I know, right!😂

[@tedmusson5179]

I'm curious why you would spell "you" "u" but you don't do it for "and" or "to" and I wonder what you'd or u'd do with "be" "see" "gee" "eye" "pea" "are" "tea" "why" and would a bad guy b an nme?

[@RogerDuly]

F’ck that.

[@MURKYDEEP]

​@@tedmusson5179 y knot. ...?

[@yunglumi637]

I mean once the 34 years 11 months rolls around then it’s time for the last ride I guess 😂

[@caseymckenzie3951]

Killed a boss then made a rule u couldnt lol

[@kingpro192]

Psst. He killed two bosses lol

[@jacobweems3316]

Just one of many double standards in that life

[@JeromeMatthews-dx6gi]

Y 😢

[@tramarparker7725]

Thatz how u stay alive 😂😂😂

[@powell4661]

He also informed when busted with herion.

[@samirkotecha9481]

He may have been on the throne as king of the underworld. But it was his right man like Frank Costello & Meyer Lansky who were the guys who helped build this empire of his.

[@unathihlanjwa6638]

who cares about it

[@ApeAlchemist]

When his trial started i thought, oh this must be how he got his name i guess not!

[@caseymckenzie3951]

He was sliced in the face while trying to be killed that’s were he got his name he got out of prison helping in the war

[@johnhood5274]

Surprise! LOL 😂

[@hooddeals2564]

Actually it was proven that he was called Lucky way before his attack in 1929...he was called Lucky because of his real last name, Lucania

[@katherinecollins4685]

Researched well

[@T-Mxney]

Luciano will always be my favorite gangster

[@keithharrison9797]

The biggest of the BIGGEST !

[@rjhtrucking5429]

I love the gas centeal heating thermostat on the wall !!!

[@biom9466]

Whatever you do to someone else, you do to yourself. The universal law reflects everything over and over again. When will these stupid power games finally stop and it will turn into PURE LOVE. PLEASE LET GO OF THE OLD GARBAGE - THANK YOU VERY MUCH - I LOVE YOU ALL

[@brianflannigans5874]

theres a 2500 chevy maroon color or a 3500 maroon disel high country in garrettsville

[@terryharrison6984]

He was many times smarter than the politicians and the modern day Madoffs

[@zarkovukelic9502]

A true CRIME BOSS. HOW MANY OF THESE ARE IN GOVERNMENT?

[@TheRetirednavy92]

most of them

[@mackmcmillan1984]

You will always be a part of me 😮

[@robertanderson7333]

Luciano had just turned 64, two months earlier in the preceding November before his January death.

[@KevinSpeller-ny7gk]

🤔🤔🤔"IMPRESSIVE"!!!...💰💰💰💯

[@andrewfoster4795]

Luciano was underated they talk more about al capone then they do him

[@TheTrueCrimeChannel]

Crazy life he had!

[@mikeyspillotro]

I ❤Salc😮 Lucafna-which was “Lolucky” really nam

[@menelaoskontos2553]

he will organize, organized crime... i cant believe ppl who havent finished elementary school want to be narrators.. Lmao ''if it was already organized crime then what did he organize?''Lol

[@themostrealestguy]

There were crime organizations first, but they weren't very organized.

[@kagisophiri6329]

The statement flew over your mind

[@Navigator001]

Wow, this is stupendous. It wasn't organized crime until Lucky came along and organized it. It was just a bunch of street thugs battling it out with each other. You must be high to not understand something so simple.

[@kagisophiri6329]

It has nothing to do with school. It's basic idiomatic expression

[@imtiazeunos5630]

The Very best mafia boss

[@ernestgreen254]

These guys don't play dead serious about there money & intelligent to gain this income just fascinating

[@andreaschwab8368]

Ya done good. That was an excellent telling of Lucky Luciano 🖤

[@taladiv3415]

The narrator's voice sounds to me like the voice of Anthony Hopkins.

[@lauraforconi9111]

IS NOT ANTHONY HOPKINS

[@Lawrence64]

Glock firing around 29 minutes...😂

[@TheArchersTungsten]

There is so many conflicting accounts about Lucky, hes like Billy the kid .

[@carlosuy4046]

Wickedness Never Was " HAPPINESS " .

[@WilliamYoung-in5pp]

And not one mention of his blind brother with one leg who had to ride ten miles to school on a bike with no brakes and buckled wheel's 😮

[@user-xz4bn8uf4p]

Imagine these guys living in todays society?? I would guess average day would be 3 to 7 body bags

[@AndreaAntinori-lb7hr]

Things would be better in America

[@kingpro192]

Too many cameras nowadays.

[@frasermackenzie7275]

​@@AndreaAntinori-lb7hr no tent compounds 😂😂😂😂 just massive pools of red liquids and canvas 😂😂😂😂

[@fritzforsthoefel8031]

Less crime now than there was then ​@@AndreaAntinori-lb7hr

[@1cugine359]

I dont know , Meyer had a ton of bread.

[@kirkanos3968]

Once again with a crap title or maybe forgot the ?

[@caseymckenzie3951]

Lanskey was the richest he also never got caught

[@amirand10879]

They loved him in Cuba

[@paulslater9061]

Now they're in the white house not a bad escalation

[@AndreaAntinori-lb7hr]

The mop kept things in check..

[@jennifermyers66]

THE FORMER KING OF ENGLAND.... LUCKY LUCIANO 💯

[@ItalianClown2003]

He's fucking badass awesome 🇮🇹

[@alincristianzagorschi1205]

The FATHER OF THE MAFIA FOR ALL THE TIME!👍GREAT RESPECT!

[@DejanFilipovski-no4yp]

Thnx for jurnalisam if is corect

[@Miko36019]

Lucky design the commission of 5 klan most powerful gangs in the U.S.

[@user-dy3jg2tb5v]

Wot a life ❤❤🎉🎉

[@darrenmarfice8318]

What's the song @ 5:34-6:30?

[@CedricSmith-un6vm]

God bless Mr. Lucky Luciano.

[@vortex162]

He sure needs it for all the misery he left behind in his path!

[@CedricSmith-un6vm]

@@vortex162 People would not look up to people like that for no reason.

[@vortex162]

@@CedricSmith-un6vm Indeed, like minded scum looks up to the like minded scum!

[@GodCreated51]

😂😂 THE MAUGH - Ē - Ah

[@user-xz4bn8uf4p]

My dad will tell me stories about Lucky cozy morely frank sinatra.

[@robertanderson7333]

Why does Mr. Raab refuse to pronounce Luciano"s name correctly, does he think that he is disrespecting him, he has been dead since 1962. All Mr. Raab is doing is making himself look petty.

It's amazing how the "law" lie under oath to fit their objective, yet penalize individuals when others do😂. What a lie..i mean law.😊

[@judithcampbell1705]

30-50 years for prostitution, what bullshit kind of sentence was that! They should have just appreciated how great Lucky Luciano was and let him go. I was so sad when they deported him back to Italy, and absolutely devastated when he died so young! I still miss him. Thank you 💛 for making this documentary about his life 🙏 ❤ 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙

[@user-vh8lw4wv8d]

On 10.18 the door on the right side is where Roy demeo and his crew invited people and kill them. And some more sinister things.

[@davidcochrane219]

Some of the accounts of what took place during Luciano's rise and reign that I've learned from other sources differ from this documentary

[@raylocke282]

In a way,he was saving lives.

[@jonmena]

Mijn petje af voor de 'Opvoedkunde'. Alle theorieën kloppen.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Luciano was nearly the wealthiest mob. Like, how about say Capone.

[@caseymckenzie3951]

Capone was big but Luciano was bigger and lasted longer

[@bawtreerd]

Capone was not in the Mafia

[@cincytino9153]

Personally sent my great grandfather to upstate in the 40s

[@DavidRafaelSutton]

Thanks for the video pretty cool it is my opinion educated opinion from what I've learned over a decade the mafia would not have been what it had become completely without my landscape without my landscape you take landscape out of a Lucky's equation and you don't have the modern-day Mafia although lansky's mentions a few times in the video I don't think it's mentioned enough or Andy is not given anywhere near the amount of credit because it was the two of them it was not one without the other you wouldn't have one without the other as a sensation without that old deep relation relationship that they have with each other sincerely about the blind bedroom guitar

[@TeOriwaWaiariki-qr3ch]

That were Millionaires turned Billionaires tha Never Pull the Trigger or Setoff the Detonators Their Slackies did / do☝🏾💯

[@DavidAntunes-rm7dq]

Semion Mogileivich says hold my beer

[@mandan8945]

😂😂😂😂 As someone who did his disertation on the Italian American Mafia I can confidently tell you that thos TOTAL AND UTTER BULLSHIT!!! ITS FLABBERGASTING HOW PEOPLE CAN JUST OPENLY LIE LIKE THIS. RIDICULOUS.

[@dizzy6277]

He was called "lucky" because he found a billion dollars in a crack in the sidewalk, and someone said "you're lucky", and the name "lucky Luciano" stuck. Not many people know that.

[@caseymckenzie3951]

That’s a lie he was stabbed in the face and survived it smh that’s were he got that scar y did u just make that up

[@dizzy6277]

@@caseymckenzie3951 No, he really found a billion dollars in a crack in the sidewalk. Honest he did. I was a really, really big crack in the sidewalk in the middle of time square during the great depression. It was extra lucky because people didn't have a lot of money at that time, and a crack big enough to fit a billion dollars in would be a very, very big crack, so lucky nobody else found it before lucky did. It was the day before he got stabbed, so I can see why people still get confused and believe that's why he was called lucky. I would say finding a billion dollars was a smidgen more lucky than getting stabbed in the face.

[@raularaujo1329]

​@@caseymckenzie3951nope he grew up in a immigrant neighborhood section of New York and they couldn't speak English and couldn't pronounce his last name "Luciano" they'd pronounce it wrong "Looky-ano" then they started calling him "Looky" then everyone just started calling him Lucky

[@sirrom5155]

I have studie all about Charles and his father Lucky. I am the world's most foremost most expert.

[@terryharrison6984]

About the cojoncos in Philippines killing hundreds to steal their farm land that hasn't been returned

[@jennifermyers66]

CHARLES ROSS

[@sputumtube]

Richest? I don't think so. Even adjusted for inflation, Pablo Escobar's countless billions could buy and sell Luciano hundreds of times over.

[@caseymckenzie3951]

Pablo was a drug lord not really a monster he was more of a terrorist

[@caseymckenzie3951]

He wasn’t really a mobster I meant

[@purplebutterflies6824]

That's who automatically popped into my head.

[@mafiososamgiancana]

Sir when Luciano died in his 60s ur Pablo was in his Diapers. And also there is a difference between a mobster and a terrorist drug animal. Pablo is gone Mafia still exists not only in Italy or USA also Australia Canada

[@peterdevries8589]

True, Luciano was struggling to pay his rent in Italy when he passed.

[@ollieprice8003]

When the Mafia had control, in the 50s and 60s there was food, money, housing, jobs and a little better life for black people that was very poorly neighborhoods and so less crime in black neighborhoods.

[@Helterskelter254]

lucky luciana was my auncle...very soft spoken man..

[@FalconXE302]

... I understand your shame being associated with such a terrible human being.

[@emekaisaac3875]

You lied, proved it for us

[@djquinn11]

Luciana was your auncle? That’s omasing.

[@gurudru1977]

i just love that they state "reconstruction" as if people would think that cameras were really there

[@premierhoner614]

People that makes themselves kings. People who kill to get to the top all just for money and wealth. I never heard of a gangster who turned 90 years old. They all die fast, they all die young. Here old "Lucky" didn't even saw 80. And all of his money?? Couldn't stop him for getting a heart attack... Shame.. 😂😂😂

[@robertanderson7333]

Joey Lombardo died in prison at 90, John DiFronzo was halfway to 90 when he died, and many of the Chicago Outfit lived to their mid late 80's, Joey Aiuppa was 89.

[@e-mail881]

You sound like a ten year old! And how many non-criminals do you know who get to be 90 anyway? Not many, I'm sure, and the ones who do live like a vegetable after 80. Ps. Your English is HORRIBLE... Shame... 🤣🤣🤣

[@DaveSCameron]

Another Great British documentary.📚🇬🇧

[@Dr.Claw_M.A.D.]

Because people kept thier mouth shut. Now RICO laws. One thing to have millions squirrelled away and serving five years with certain creature comforts, coming out finding what you left and picking up where you left off. Fifty to one hundred years stripped of all assets. Houses, cars, kids college funds everything.

[@robbie604]

What good did that money do Lucky all he ever wanted was to live back in America and he got his wish only after he died a life of crime is lonely especially after you killed everyone you knew

[@francesbernard2445]

Who re-named Charles Luciano with the nickname "Lucky" instead of only a different kind of name written on a stone? Was it someone from Britain or someone else from his own family instead?

[@ozzieluvaya2202]

He got the name lucky because he survived a beating that left the scar on his face. So he got the name lucky

[@docmalitt]

Great piece. I'm on half way but although Charlie had to (politically) leave US, he died from natural causes in Italy when he was only 62... Running to catch a plane. However what ever they did, once US government saw how much "free" money flies around they built the biggest Army in the World and now they own it... Besides Charlie and meanest Jew M. Lansky who knew how to behave think while most other Italian mobsters (not all) were just bag man. Hahahaha, FBI had nothing or very little about Charlie. However they knew what brand of hair gel Dr. Martin Luther King used. And how to kill him. Plus he was a drag queen. So funny to watch these old shows knowing if Republicans get their way, we will watch only this version again. that is a reason they burn the books, mostly history books.

[@mbp7060]

You can't be serious. DEMOCRAT'S, *every 4 years like clockwork* they roll out this "white supremacy is the biggest threat to America" nonsense. Then they go into black neighborhood churches and spew that garbage and we black folks have bought into that crap for *60* years. We don't exist for those 3 years in between. That does nothing but divide the country I gave 18 years of my life to. I'm heart broken having comrades who died so people can come on KZbin and make unfounded comments about republicans burning books and rewriting history. Name a book you can't buy on Amazon and have in your hands within 24 hours. *Exactly.*

[@docmalitt]

My apologies... my memory obviously does not serve me so well. He dies in 62 at the age of 65. As someone who always loved history as an amateur, who is a bigger criminal. Charlie Lucky Luciano killing mostly other mobsters the do not behave ... or the person who decided it is quite ok for US Army to kill around (funny if it weren't sad) between 2-4 million Vietnamese but they keep mentioning 58.000 and change US Soldiers, brave and fighting for American freedom just missed few thousand miles from home. How Many ppl have they killed during 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq and then just left them to kill each other. They left Ukraine now regardless of today's vote for $63B that will arrive who knows when and how many Ukrainian soldiers had to die while they drank mojitos. or how many Palestinians die every day. Or when they destroyed entire elected regimes in Latin and South America and put some hard right winger Nazi generals who had the same thinking as Ronald Reagan. Oh, don't worry. Democrats are the same because if they had no MONEY from all the lobbyists they would change that loooong time ago. And these young politicians have mouth to scold people who want at minimum for their kids better life in US. It is their fault they are so extremely poor. Also just to be frank, I don't know what would be the best solution... but I remembered something Israeli general said at the beginning of the wa...genocide. Journalist asks him how could they drop the bomb on a refugee camp - and he says " well after FIRST DAY EVER OF WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE`if there is somewhere mixed with civilians Hamas high ranking member (I think any but just my opinion) we can drop the bomb without regard of the number of civilians, women and/or children. we must defend ourself"....now Journalist ask another question - "if you find the General of Hamas hidden somewhere in Israeli hospital incognito and you must kill him because it would be very hard to find him later.. would you drop the bomb on hospital in Israel and killed ...any ... number of civilians?? - General said - "no, never"

[@skadiwarrior2053]

@@docmalitt Perhaps those bodies they keep finding under the rubble of hospitals that they have bombed aren't real.

[@RamonaHaygood]

U testified?! Not good. Oops.

[@ianmaund5223]

I don’t think so I am !

[@garvinguerra5723]

You mean Meyer Lanski don't you?

[@shanebrown9610]

The government leaves the same in there wake also.

[@ozzieluvaya2202]

I know he was a gangster but I love lucky Luciano.

[@vortex162]

The only admirable thing about Lucky was his skill for organizing nothing else!

[@raymondwilliams9784]

Theres a lot learned from these edited mobsters and gangaters stories..many of these top glamourater business still going on in todays world.

[@dsd7004]

I thought he had some money problems once he was in Italy. Like the Genovese family were sending over smaller and smaller amounts of money. Pissing Lucky off. I know he got pissed at Joe Adonis when he was deported( or was going to be) for not giving him money because Adonis was really wealthy. I think they stopped talking. Relative money problems. He was still probably rich compared to the average man.

[@kevinwatkins6615]

J Edgar?

[@RamonaHaygood]

Dude was smart.

[@asahel980]

Well I guess Oragnized Crime syndicates are pursued , because Oligarchs wanted full control of Illegal drugtrade or anykind of illegal and profitable industry. you can say they were given a deal they cannot refuse.

[@spacecoyote6646]

Too many ads

[@GlasgowRangers-pj8sj]

They missed the part why he gets called lucky

[@raularaujo1329]

It's a legend we'll never know for sure. He grew up in a immigrant neighborhood in New York so people who didn't speak English couldn't pronounce his last name Luciano correct they'd pronounce it wrong and say "Looky-ano " so they started calling him Looky then they left it at Lucky

[@Wildrover82]

Cant have been the richest in all fairness.🤷