THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA

Lucky Luciano, the man who changed the mafia into the criminal organization we know today. This is part 5 of a 5 part series about Lucky, listen to all 5 and learn all about his story.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.

10 Feb 202410min

Lucky Luciano, the man who changed the mafia into the criminal organization we know today. This is part 4 of a 5 part series about Lucky, listen to all 5 and learn all about his story.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.

19 Jan 20246min

Lucky Luciano, the man who changed the mafia into the criminal organization we know today. This is part 3 of a 5 part series about Lucky, listen to all 5 and learn all about his story.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.

16 Jan 20248min

Lucky Luciano, the man who changed the mafia into the criminal organization we know today. This is part 2 of a 5 part series about Lucky, listen to all 5 and learn all about his story.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.

26 Des 20237min

Charles “Lucky” Luciano can be called the one who brought the Mafia to a far-reaching level of influence. He was considered by Time Magazine among the 20 most influential men of the twentieth century. He can undoubtedly be considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States. He helped form the American Mafia's governing body called the Commission that continues to wield power in the world of crime today.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.

17 Des 20239min

Diamond's gang began working for Rothstein in various capacities as bodyguards and ensuring, with the use of firearms, that agreements were kept. Rothstein was not a gangster; rather he was a forward-thinking businessman who appreciated and utilized the skills that only gangsters could provide. With the advent of Prohibition, Diamond and his gang turned to smuggling alcohol.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.

8 Des 20238min

Arthur Simon Flegenheimer was born on August 6, 1902 in the Bronx, a populous neighborhood of New York. Known as Schultz the Dutch. He is the son of two poor German immigrants of Jewish origin. His father abandoned him and the rest of the family when he was still a child. This traumatized little Arthur greatly. It was during this critical period that the little boy dropped out of school and joined the juvenile petty crime gangs in the BronxBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.

4 Nov 202311min

Virginia Hill, the Alabama farm girl who became the queen of the mafia. She was born in Lipscomb, Alabama, on August 26, 1916. As a child, she and her parents and nine siblings moved to Georgia. Tired of the abuse and brutal beatings that she and her brothers and mother suffered from her alcoholic father, at the age of seven, she burned her father with sausage fat. In November 1931, when she was 15, she married 16-year-old George Randell and ran away from home with him to Chicago. There she very quickly found herself immersed in the violent world of some of the most infamous gangsters.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.

22 Okt 20237min