Hey, true weirdos. We just wanted to take a minute and thank you so much for your support.

True Weird Stuff has won Best History Podcast in the Women and Podcasting Awards.

And we have also won a Signal Award in the paranormal category.

And that has only happened because of you, our fellow strange people.

Stick around if you want after the episode for a little bonus content and conversation.

The stock market crash of October 1929 plunged the U.S. into the Great Depression.

But there was at least one business that didn't suffer at all.

Prostitution.

A hardworking girl still had plenty of customers at the going rate of $2 for 15 minutes.

That'd be like picking up about $45 for a quarter hour's work today.

Even then, prostitution was a mob racket.

And one of the biggest gangsters in the game at the time was a man named Charles Luciano.

You might know him better by his nickname.

Lucky.

Lucky Luciano.

Luciano was the most powerful mob boss in America. He made his fortune during prohibition. It was his idea to create a commission to oversee organized crime

in the United States. He had his hands in everything dirty, from bootleg liquor to gambling to prostitution.

And then the law came calling.

This is the story of how lucky Luciano's luck ran out and the woman who helped bring him down.

I just told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

They're going.

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