Lucky Luciano is probably one of the most interresting mobster of all time.
I wonder, how the mafia looked at him, after Genovese and Gambino moved against him?
The Luciano family changed its name for Genovese family... Why the mobsters at the time accepted to change the name of the families of all five families?
And now, they dont’ change the name, it will always be the Genovese family?
Is it because of this?
« Luciano allegedly helped pay part of $100,000 to a Puerto Rican drug dealer to falsely implicate Genovese in a drug deal » for the Luciano family?
The names were given by the government after Valachi testified. If there had been other bosses, they would have their names attached to the families. As for them paying that man $100,000 t testify, that is untrue. They also have said it was Gambino, another time it was blamed on Lansky for whatever reason. Nelson Cantellops was the rats name, he lied to get out of prison, he was a small timer. He actually stayed around in New York and was killed in a bar. Gigante was also a defendant, as were other top members of several families. Nelson Cantellops later recanted his testimony, then after being confronted with prison time again, went back and said it was true, claiming John Ormento called him up and offered him money to change his testimony to get Genovese and the others out of prison.
