That's what I said in my post--Lansky took it to Dewey's former closest associate, and the rest, as they say, was history.

We know that Luciano's calling of a Mob summit conference in Havana soon after he was deported to Italy was his move to reassert power and get back into the US. A story that I read (not saying I believe it) was that ever-jealous Vito Genovese ratted out Charlie's presence in Havana to the Feds, who leaned on the Cuban government to deport him immediately. Luciano still had enough clout to broker a major drug deal with Joe Bonanno in '57, but his power faded after that. I think he was reduced to running a restaurant in Naples by the time of his death.