Charlie Lucky was definitely a contender for Top Don of all time. His organization of all of the disparate and contentious Families into a single cohesive entity is proof alone of his prescient genius. Do not forget that during WWII it was on his account that the eastern US seaboard was safe from Axis attack; and on his word The Allies were able to safely gain a foothold in Sicilia, receiving a warm welcome from the mafiosi there. Vito Genovese may have done the legwork, but it was Charlie Lucky who gave the go-ahead to permit a smooth Allied invasion. Do not forget also that he controlled ALL prostitution in the US during his day. Charlie Lucky not only headed the Commission as Capo di tutti capi, but also constituted the liaison between the US and Sicilian factions of Mafia. His calling together of all the chieftains, both the domestic Commission and the Sicilian Cupola in 1957 at the Grand Hotel des Palmes in Palermo laid the foundation for the consolidation of the international narcotics industry, from the French Connection all the way to the Pizza Connection. He was negotiating the rights to his life story as a novel-to-become-major-motion-picture at the time of his death by heart attack in 1960. No one could touch Salvatore Lucania, THE MAN 'Charlie Lucky.'