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Dewey launches a crusade against organized crime and to save the Mafia,the New York kingpin orders a hit on one of his own.With Schultz out of the picture,the Mob is back in business.Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel,Frank Costello and Vito Genovese are living the high life.
Guys like Lucky came up from the bottom,clawed their way up, and wind up being on top,and when they became the boss,it was almost like their "Man of La Mancha" Dream.（拉‧曼恰La Mancha，堂吉诃德的家乡。《堂吉诃德》原著名为《Don Quixote de La Mancha》。）
By 1935,Luciano and his crew had built an empire pulling in the modern-day equivalent of over $100 million a year.
Meyer Lansky is leading the charge,revolutionizing their gambling rackets,turning their low-rent gambling dens into high-class establishments.Lansky saw opportunities where other people saw nothing, and he saw treasurewhere other people saw trash.He was the first guy to take craps（掷骰子）, which was a street game,and put it up on green felt on a table and thereby make it respectable and fancy.
As Lansky is inventing the first modern casinos，Vito Genovese has a heroin racket that's pulling in millions of dollars a year,but he decides to diversify,and begins running high-stakes poker games,luring in unsuspecting wealthy businessmen and fixing the outcome to make sure he always wins.Gambling was the strength of the American Mafia.The reason gambling was appealing to Mob guys was because their life was a gamble,and it was only a reflection of the way they lived.
While business is booming,Bugsy Siegel makes sure the money is collected and that the Mob's authority is understood.And as part of the Mob's hit squad, Murder, lnc.,Siegel carries out orders sent down by the Commission.
Frank Costello keeps the authority at bay.Using his connections with corrupt politicians and law enforcement to ensure the Mob's business runs smoothly.Now that they were running these criminal organizations,very profitable ones,they had to pay off police and politicians to continue thriving,because they didn't want any outside interference.
At the top of the operation is 38-year-old Lucky Luciano.The best way to describe Lucky Luciano was that he was a creative genius,but a criminal creative genius.He knew entrepreneurship.He knew how organizations should function and how to get rid of rivalries and competition.In effect, he was an early equivalent,a criminal equivalent.
