83: Lucky Luciano's 1930s NYC Prostitution Trial w/ Ellen Poulsen - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In 1936, New York City prosecutors, desperate to put infamous Murder Inc. boss Charles "Lucky" Luciano behind bars, decided to arrest him on tenuous charges for running the Big Apple's largest prostitution racket.

Ellen Poulsen is my guest, and author of "The Case Against Lucky Luciano: New York's Most Sensational Vice Trial". She talks about the case, the trial, and the state of prostitution and organized crime in 1930s New York City.

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0:30.0	nd
0:36.0	nd
0:47.5	Welcome everyone to the Most Notorious Podcast.
0:49.7	I'm Eric Rivenes, and I appreciate you joining me today for another true crime history episode.
0:54.9	A quick mention for those fans of my show who happened to be in the Twin Cities.
0:59.5	Minneapolis and St. Paul for those not familiar with my frozen neck of the woods.
1:03.7	The book launch for dirty dock games in the scandal that shook Minneapolis is on April 12th, 7pm at the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis.
1:13.5	I'll be doing a brief presentation, and books will be available for both sale and autographs.
1:19.2	It's also available for pre-order now and officially available on April 1st.
1:23.7	I'd love to meet you in person, so please put it on your calendar and swing by.
1:28.5	So onto the show, my guest is Ellen Poulson.
1:31.2	If you recognize her name, it's because she did a two-part interview a while back about the many women of John Dillinger,
1:37.9	which was highly entertaining.
1:39.7	And I'm so glad she's back today.
1:41.3	This time to chat about her book entitled, The Case Against Lucky Luciano, New York's Most Sensational Vice Trial.
1:50.2	It's a pleasure as always to have you on. Thank you.
1:54.0	Thank you, Eric.
1:56.0	So Charles Lucky Luciano is such a compelling figure in the history of American crime.
2:01.9	How did you become inspired to author a book about him?
2:06.5	Well, this story is almost unbelievable.
2:09.9	I was doing a talk in a historical society about John Dillinger, who was subject of an earlier book,
2:20.2	and two people in the audience got into a fight over who was the tougher gangster, John Dillinger, or Lucky Luciano.
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