# Charles Luciano

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-luciano/

Convicted in a New York State vice prosecution in 1936; the state's highest court called him "the head of this enterprise." Valachi testified in 1963 that Luciano took over as boss after Maranzano's killing. An FBI file records his parole on condition of deportation in 1946.

The heading follows the Vault file title, "Charles (Lucky) Luciano / Salvatore Lucania." Valachi and Shanley call him "Charley Lucky." A 1935 FBI memorandum spells the surname "Luciana."

His 1936 conviction was a New York State case, prosecuted by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey; no federal court tried him. The state opinion is free to use because judicial opinions are not subject to copyright, and its "head of this enterprise" refers to the vice combination in that case, not to a family.

The FBI file's OCR gives his birth both as "11-11-07" and as "November 11, 1897." Neither is used until the scan is read, so the birth field is empty. No opened record gives his death. The role line is Valachi's answer to counsel. The FBI's statements about the killings of 1931 and the Commission are the Bureau's own later summaries and are labelled as such; none is a finding, and no chart on this archive carries his name. The 1963 hearing record mixes kinds of statement. Valachi's and Shanley's answers are sworn testimony; counsel's questions are not, though a witness's "yes" makes them part of the testimony; LaVern Duffy's description of Exhibit 8 is the committee staff reading its own chart. A chart entry never fills a role on this archive.

## Sources

- Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Hearings, Part 1 (1963): https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/119303NCJRS.pdf