#luccheselegacy

[joelekm]

Gaetano 'Tommy' Lucchese had his own mafia family monopolized the Kosher chicken industry before 35!

Gaetano 'Tommy' Lucchese saved Luciano's life and monopolized the Kosher chicken industry before 35! Thomas Gaetano Lucchese, sometimes known by the nicknames "Tommy", "Thomas Luckese", "Tommy Brown" or "Tommy Three-Finger Brown" was an Italian-American gangster and founding member of the Mafia in the United States, an offshoot of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily. From 1951 until 1967, he was the boss of the Lucchese crime family, one of the Five Families that dominate organized crime in New York City.

[joelekm]

Nicolo Schiro - The first leader of the Lucchese family fled America before the war!

Nicolo Schiro - The first leader of the Lucchese family fled America before the war!

Nicolo "Cola" Schiro (September 2, 1872 – April 29, 1957) was an early Sicilian-born New York City mobster who, in 1912, became the boss of what later become known as the Bonanno crime family. Schiro's leadership of the mafia clan would see it orchestrate the "Good Killers" murders, control gambling and protection rackets in Brooklyn, engage in bootlegging during Prohibition, and print counterfeit money. A conflict with rival mafia boss Joe Masseria would force Schiro out as boss, after which he returned to Sicily.