LUCKY LUCIANO Ep. 4 | "The Commission”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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After Luciano organizes the removal of Salvatore Maranzano, he institutes significant changes to the American Mafia. Luciano’s most notable innovation is the creation of a governing body known as The Commission. The hope is that The Commission – made up of mob bosses from across the country – will resolve internal conflicts and avoid another major war. In 1935, The Commission faces its first big test when Dutch Schultz, an infamous New York gangster, wants to kill an ambitious federal prosecutor named Thomas E. Dewey. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In April 1931, Charles Luciano brought an end to the bloody Castellimerese War.
0:18.0	After a year of violence and bloodshed, Luciano switched sides and organized the death of his
0:23.5	boss, Joe Maseria. In doing so, Luciano made Salvatore Maranzano the victor of the American
0:30.8	Mafia's first big war. Maranzano quickly slipped into the role of the boss of the mafia.
0:39.3	He organized all of the various gangs into five distinct families, an established structure for the families that included a boss,
0:45.6	an underboss, captains, and soldiers. Luciano liked many of the changes, but he quickly realized
0:52.6	that Maranzano was more dictatorial than
0:55.4	Mazaria. Maranzano demanded to be called Capo de Tudicapi, the boss of all bosses.
1:03.2	Luciano grew tired of Maranzano's behavior in near record time, and with the help of his close
1:08.6	friend Meyer Lanski, he orchestrated the assassination
1:11.8	of Salvatore Maranzano. On September 10, 1931, just five months after Luciano coordinated the
1:20.4	murder of his former boss, Joe Maseria, he sent four assassins to Maranzano's office.
1:26.7	They posed as IRS agents and successfully killed the boss of all bosses.
1:33.0	Luciano made peace with lingering Maranzano allies, and then he called a nationwide meeting of mob bosses to be held in Chicago.
1:44.0	Bosses from all over America listened to Luciano explain his thoughts.
1:49.0	Luciano made it clear that his mission was strictly to avoid unnecessary violence.
1:54.8	Prohibition had been a bonanza for everyone, and gunning down people in the streets only drew
2:00.0	unwanted attention to all of them.
2:02.8	Luciano acknowledged the importance of Maranzano's five-family structure, but Luciano wanted to add a key
2:09.3	player to the leadership, the Consolieri. Each family would now have a Consoliery to act as an
2:15.9	advisor. The hope was that the
2:17.9	consularies would be able to mediate any brewing conflicts. Luciano wanted to take a more
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