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

[@davidfrontini829]

I love watching the Mafia stories.

[@Bob-te3le]

So do I.

[@keithdupree9339]

@@davidfrontini829 yes agreed When people want to glorify the lives of scumbag wastes of human flesh they also are endorsing evil

[@xtraspecialj]

@@Bob-te3le Me too

[@andrewfoster4795]

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

[@Bob-te3le]

Al Capone was that gangsta that's why.

[@gregwalton7993]

​@Bob-te3le he was also Napolitane and the Sicilians would never have followed him, just like Genovese and Gotti ultimately

[@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

[@Bob-te3le]

​@@keithdupree9339Read what you wrote , you're talking backwards. On one hand you said God don't approve their moves , then on other hand you say God is your father and approves what is good for you. Then obviously God aproved them being gangsta cause it was good for them. Don't blame Satan yall say God is more powerful than Satan. So who is who then , wjens God gonna step up and make the world better , Satan is obviously doing his job really well 😂😢😅

[@pjuggle]

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

[@AndrewRobertson-kl4vi]

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

[@JamesSpiveySr]

8th

[@rodzor]

Ok?

[@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

[@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid]

Oh yeah? What's the name of this "Sicilian Godfather"?

[@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

[@GmoneyGmoneyy]

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]

​@@GmoneyGmoneyy111111111111111

[@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. ...?

[@NoLoyalMudHound96]

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

[@FightToLiveRight-K65]

Luciano needed his own trap music. This guy was a true boss.

[@MUGSHOTRECORDS83]

Whenever u see my man selwyn raab on the program....u know it's going be filled w all facts

[@BusyBeeFarmsAldenNY]

Hahahaha

[@carrietezeno3040]

Great Video Love The Narrator

[@EverythingNetwork1]

love these

[@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

[@wilkat4evr]

Great documentary

[@CHARLESJOHNSON-gv7zy]

'GANGSTERS .. MAKE THE WORLD .. GO ROUND' ..

[@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

[@stevenphillips2738]

These documentaries are awesome and the narrator does a fantastic job I've yet to see a bad one

[@jerryblair4106]

Great video

[@rjhtrucking5429]

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

[@davidgriffiths4788]

Yeah I noticed that, and the air con units on the windows

[@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

[@JoseGarcia-vs1fb]

Fantastic. 👍💯

[@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.

[@xtraspecialj]

Well, while this doc still overstates Luciano's role in organizing the modern Mafia, it does at least correctly state that it was Maranzano that came up with the 5 family idea (and even then, I'm not sure it was his idea either. It was kind of already in place before then). A lot of docs give that credit to Luciano.

[@kaysworld111]

That's because he ran it right he brought the 5 families together he didn't just rule with a iron Fist , he had a bigger vision then getting over on people

[@xtraspecialj]

@@kaysworld111 Maranzo ran it right and didn't try to rule with an iron fist?? Huh? He ran it for like 9 months before he was killed... And supposedly he also wanted to be "boss of bosses". So I'm not sure what you're talking about.

[@kaysworld111]

@@xtraspecialj I said what I said get your facts straight

[@xtraspecialj]

@@kaysworld111 lol, "get your facts straight"... Well, I do have them straight, except he wasn't the boss of bosses for 9 months. It was actually only 5 weeks after declaring that when he was killed, and even before then he'd only killed Masseria 4 months prior. So how can you possibly say he didn't rule with an iron fist? He ruled for 5 weeks. Plus, there is plenty of evidence for Maranzano being not much better than Masseria... I mean, the dude compared his organization to the Roman Empire and his self to Caesar (at least according to Selwyn Raab, although I'd like to know his source on that). But regardless, declaring yourself the boss of all bosses sure sounds like he planned to rule with an iron fist to me, as there's no way to do that without being pretty ruthless, even if he was more progressive than his peers. Not to mention he was a brutal and conniving leader before his declaration. So it seems it is you who actually needs to get his facts straight... If you want a more realistic and well-sourced version of Mafia history here in America, The Mob and the City by Alexander Hortis is very good and dispels a lot of the mythology around the Mafia that these modern documentaries and podcasts parrot.

[@brianjones7907]

J Edgar Hoover said There is no such Thing as Organized crime , what he was thinking was those nice gentlemen gave me some Really pretty dresses

[@zarkovukelic9502]

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

[@TheRetirednavy92]

most of them

[@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid]

@@TheRetirednavy92 None of them. Luciano rose to power by taking on, and surviving, extreme risk. People in government are almost exclusively beta losers with zero grit or life experience.

[@awiladen7814]

The best🙏🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴

[@terryharrison6984]

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

[@JJJ111JJJ]

His smartest move was probably when he ratted out his friends in secret to avoid a prison sentence in 1925.

[@andreaschwab8368]

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

[@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.

[@robertanderson7333]

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

[@mackmcmillan1984]

You will always be a part of me 😮

[@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 😂😂😂

[@T-Mxney]

Luciano will always be my favorite gangster

[@Foul_Quince]

You have a ranking system?

[@JJJ111JJJ]

Fun fact, during his 1935 trial, Luciano was forced to admit he had ratted out his associates in 1925 to avoid a prison sentence. How embarrassing, especially since he was the one to basically introduce omerta in the American mafia.

[@Bob-te3le]

Mine is Al Capone and Frank Nitty. It's a Chicago thing for me. My favorite city Chicago is a mafia and gangsta paradise.

[@danielgood2662]

​@@JJJ111JJJFun fact, that was mentioned in the video😂😂

[@leelaaiyappa6277]

Really grear post

[@kevinwatkins6615]

It was so terrific...

[@GaotamGambhir]

Everybody is a backstabber

[@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

[@Guy_Incognito1]

​@@hooddeals2564That's Luciano

[@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.

[@alincristianzagorschi1205]

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

[@imtiazeunos5630]

The Very best mafia boss

[@gurudru1977]

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

[@taladiv3415]

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

[@lauraforconi9111]

IS NOT ANTHONY HOPKINS

[@jasxx1108]

Very smart man who found the New York Maffia 👍🤩

[@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

[@mikeyspillotro]

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

[@Lawrence64]

Glock firing around 29 minutes...😂

[@brianflannigans5874]

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

[@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 🙏 ❤ 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙

[@TheArchersTungsten]

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

[@kimthreadgold2755]

Body guards, bullet proof cars... unbelievable

[@TheTrueCrimeChannel]

Crazy life he had!

[@DaveSCameron]

Another Great British documentary.📚🇬🇧

[@jennifermyers66]

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

[@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?

[@AlphonseWeebay]

How come they couldn’t make it in Italy and only in America?

[@Bob-te3le]

​@@AlphonseWeebayBecause they're puppets the real iltalian mobsters leaders sent here to set up shop.

[@Helterskelter254]

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

[@emekaisaac3875]

You lied, proved it for us

[@djquinn11]

Luciana was your auncle? That’s omasing.

[@Jor-h2i]

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

[@keithharrison9797]

The biggest of the BIGGEST !

[@Bob-te3le]

Al Capone , John Gotti

[@keithharrison9797]

Luciano was the number one mobster of all times !

[@kimthreadgold2755]

Just learning about these gangsters.

[@ernestgreen254]

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

[@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

[@michelbenidorm2787]

A Must See 🤓👌🏻👊🏼

[@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 😮

[@Belzediel]

They raided eighty brothels and arrested over a hundred girls? That's not anything like an impressive number of girls by brothel...

[@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.

[@Rolo_Bambino]

​@@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

[@caesarmaranzano]

25:47 is my favorite scene

[@KevinSpeller-ny7gk]

🤔🤔🤔"IMPRESSIVE"!!!...💰💰💰💯

[@MDjamelJamal]

Lovely 😎💥

[@GlasgowRangers-pj8sj]

They missed the part why he gets called lucky

[@Rolo_Bambino]

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

[@ericcraig3675]

No,he was called lucky because he was severely beating up and survived, that's how he got the scars on his face, read his book,

[@carlosuy4046]

Wickedness Never Was " HAPPINESS " .

[@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.

[@rodzor]

Epic

[@DavidAntunes-rm7dq]

Semion Mogileivich says hold my beer

[@katherinecollins4685]

Researched well

[@ItalianClown2003]

He's fucking badass awesome 🇮🇹

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.😊

[@cincytino9153]

Personally sent my great grandfather to upstate in the 40s

[@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!

[@rossmansell5877]

The NORMANDIE Liner capsized with the fire mainly due to the amount of water poured into it to fight the fire...they destabalised it..OOps!!

[@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

[@bbrown333]

who is the actor playing Luciano?

[@lukejones6813]

reminds me of Keir Starmer!

[@kimthreadgold2755]

Boss, under boss, lieutenants... captains... unbelievable..

[@RamonaHaygood]

U testified?! Not good. Oops.

[@amirand10879]

They loved him in Cuba

[@patrickstotler1201]

Good documentary,informative and well Researched BUT at 44:21 when Luciano was moved from Clinton Correctional facility to a prison known as a country Club isnt Grand meadow, it's GREAT MEADOW CORRECTIONAL FACILITY!! Maybe in the 1940s it was known to be a Country Club (I doubt it though) it's just as bad if not worse than Clinton. They're both Class A maximum security prisons,in Clinton (little Siberia) the yard is half on a huge hill with 100 plus Court's with little wood stoves to keep warm and cook on. Charles Luciano actually helped get a Church built and Completed INSIDE THE PRISON and as nice as most other's. Great meadow prison yard is a huge black top(parking lot) with weights, phone's, basketball and handball Court's. Both prisons are Well known and house the worst of the worst and the guards are almost as bad as the inmate's with all the Corruption and abuse.

[@shanebrown9610]

The government leaves the same in there wake also.

[@sirrom5155]

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

[@Jor-h2i]

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

[@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid]

Bad guess.

[@Miko36019]

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

[@RamonaHaygood]

Dude was smart.

[@sicnarFehT]

As a NY State resident all of my life, Dannemora is NOT "Siberia" or "500 miles" from NYC; not even close. Upstate NY, even the northernmost parts, isn't even close to "Siberia". And the northernmost border is maybe 200 miles from NYC. Profoundly Stupid. Also, it's not "Grand Meadow", it's "Great Meadow" (locally known as "Comstock") maximum security prison, just outside of Whitehall, NY. This has to be a copy/paste of a shitty Discovery Channel show.

[@D.Marfice]

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

[@raylocke282]

In a way,he was saving lives.

[@jonmena]

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

[@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.

[@GarryPrice-b3q]

Wot a life ❤❤🎉🎉

[@TeOriwaWaiariki-qr3ch]

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

[@kimthreadgold2755]

He cannot escape from a prison

[@garvinguerra5723]

You mean Meyer Lanski don't you?

[@kimthreadgold2755]

How the hell did anybody trust one another..