Luciano was a protege of Rothstein, as were Lansky and Costello. He praised Rothstein lavishly in his "autobiography." Certainly he was cool and levelheaded by the time he formed the Commission (ca. 1931), but who knows what he was like ten years earlier?


Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.