The Backstory: Lucky Luciano: From mob boss to war hero
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
How does a guy go from running with gangs on the Lower East Side to reinventing the mafia to going to prison as a convicted felon…to finally working with the U.S. government to protect NYC’s waterfront during World War II?
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, this is a story that sounds too wild to be true, how one of the most notorious gangsters in American history helped the U.S. win World War II. |
| 0:09.9 | It was Lucky Luchano, the guy who rewrote the playbook for the American mafia, ruled the underworld with an iron fist, and I mean an iron fist, and then somehow found himself working for the U.S. |
| 0:22.2 | government. |
| 0:23.0 | How did it happen? |
| 0:24.2 | Was he forced to do it? |
| 0:25.4 | And if so, why? |
| 0:26.8 | And what happened to him after the war? |
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