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Previously on "The Making
of the Mob: New York"...

All right, this is how it's gonna work.

Charles "Lucky" Luciano

takes control of the New York Mafia...

and with his crew...

Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel,

Frank Costello and Vito Genovese...

Easy, Joe, easy.

Luciano establishes

a powerful commission of five families

to rule the underworld...

The five New York families.

They will have the
final say in all matters,

even life and death.

Enlisting notorious hit squad Murder, lnc.

To enforce its power.

You guys'll be like ghosts.

Nothing gets left behind.

Nothing.

But a threat to Luciano's organization

emerges from within...

Get another bottle of vino
over here for the ladies.

As rogue gangster Dutch Schultz...

plans to assassinate the man

on a mission to take down the Mob,

New York prosecutor Thomas Dewey.

I don't care how much it costs.

Get me Dutch Schultz!

Dewey launches a crusade
against organized crime...

and to save the Mafia,

the New York kingpin orders a hit...

on one of his own.

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In a single move, the New York Mafia

has eliminated the greatest
threat to its power:

Uncontrollable gangster Dutch Schultz.

With Schultz out of the picture,

the Mob is back in business.

He doesn't have anything
in... that's all natural.

It's all natural... I'm Sicilian, come on.

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.

This is what they wanted.

All right? Drink up.

Alla salute!

Salute! God bless.

In my neighborhood growing up,

we didn't have money,

and now all of a sudden you see these guys,

they have a diamond pinkie
ring, gorgeous suits,

beautiful women with them.

They were gods to us.

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.

Well, Lansky saw opportunities

where other people saw
nothing, and he saw treasure

where other people saw trash.

He was the first guy to take
craps, 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...

Look, I want all these collected today!

Collected today.

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...

Three of a kind.

luring in unsuspecting wealthy businessmen

and fixing the outcome to
make sure he always wins.

Full house.

Jacks over nine.

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.

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,

you didn't want to be arrested.

"The Godfather" was based on Frank Costello

with all the judges and all
the politicians in his pocket.

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,

of a Warren Buffett or a Steve Jobs.

Hey.

Where are you going?

None of your business.

You know who I am?

Everybody knows who you are.

Am I supposed to be impressed?

Hey.

You haven't given me the chance yet.

Well, good-fellas are sexy guys.

They got money, they got power,

they have, uh, new cars,
they have the best clothes,

and they're notorious and they're bad boys.

I think certain women
are attracted to that.

He's mesmerized over here, huh?

And soon... soon we can
go traveling together.

Go to Paris, take you shopping.

You like that?

Lucky Luciano lived in the Waldorf-Astoria.

Normal people with normal lives
don't live in fancy hotels.

That's for rock stars and gangsters.

From his residential suite
at the Waldorf-Astoria,

Luciano begins to build a
life with his new girlfriend,

a 20-year-old Broadway
dancer named Gay Orlova.

Luciano's relationship with women

was similar to the relationship
of a lot of these guys.

One-night stands.

Occasionally you met someone.

He had a longer relationship
with a woman named Gay Orlova.

Well, she was an
entertainer, she was fancy.

I'm gonna take care of you, you understand?

No matter what happens to
me, you'll be taken care of.

Do you understand?

While his girlfriend's at home,

Luciano looks to diversify his business

into the seedier side of the underworld.

All right, fellas, well,
it's pretty self-explanatory.

As you see, the man in the middle...

What do you have on Luciano?

For years, Luciano

has been New York special
prosecutor Thomas Dewey's

number-one target...

but Luciano's rackets
are so well-organized,

pinning a crime on him
will be nearly impossible.

Well, being a prosecutor,
you come up in a tradition

in which you're here to do the right thing.

You're constantly reminded

that the correct result
in America is justice

and the government wins
when we achieve justice.

But what Dewey doesn't know

is Luciano is about to
play right into his hands.

At the height of his power,

Lucky Luciano is determined to
expand his criminal operation

and take advantage of the
oldest profession in the world...

prostitution.

In the 1930s, prostitution is
illegal in the United States,

but Luciano knows underground
brothels are still thriving...

and he wants a cut of their profits.

Luciano realized that crime could cash in

on free enterprise.

That was what he was gonna do.

They weren't gonna limit themselves

to one or two occupations

like Prohibition or
gambling or loan-sharking.

They would do everything.

Like all of his other rackets,

Luciano streamlines the
prostitution business.

He has madams to oversee the customers

and bookers to bring prostitutes
to his brothels around the city.

Prostitution was a socially accepted thing

on high levels of government,

where politicians would go into the houses

in the company of their gangster friends

and spend a couple of hours
and just slip out the back door.

Soon, the criminal kingpin
has a citywide network

of up to 200 brothels and 1200 prostitutes.

Lucky Luciano has created
a prostitution empire

that will bring in $12 million a year,

the modern-day equivalent
of over 200 million.

Well, I don't like it.

It's a dirty business.

It's a business.

Look, these girls, they get sick,

they get diseases, they get pregnant,

they need doctors.

That's trouble.

It's a dirty business.

And we're in a dirty business.

Charlie, let me ask you this.

Are you all right being connected

to hundreds of drug-addicted girls

who will turn on you in a
second for another hit of heroin?

Are you okay with an army of pimps

who are loyal only to themselves?

Are you okay risking
everything we've built...

for this?

To Luciano, Meyer Lansky

has been a trusted friend and
business partner for decades...

and while he's always
trusted Lansky's advice...

this time Luciano ignores
his friend's warning.

- It's too long.
- I can't.

Come on, take me to lunch.

I wish I could.

You don't have time for me?

I'll always have time for you.

You're my girl.

Within months,

Luciano begins leading a double life,

spending days with his girlfriend

and nights at his brothels.

Lucky Luciano, he had a woman

that was like his main
woman, his main squeeze.

He adored her.

But he cheated on her.

It's a power thing, yeah, I think...

and then men are also just pigs.

Why am I so happy I could cry?

It's always great to see you, Lucky.

Luciano begins frequenting
one of his own brothels,

run by a madam named Cokey Flo.

You happy with the merchandise?

Very.

Here.

Anything you want... it's yours.

Why? 'Cause I found you, that's why

I was involved with
prostitutes, working girls.

There's something about
them that you have in common

which you don't have in
common with your wife.

They're con artists.

They're movers, they're shakers.

They're criminals also, so
you feel at ease with them.

You could spend a night with a prostitute

and let her know more about your life

than you want your wife to know.

As Thomas Dewey builds
his case against Luciano,

he brings in an ambitious young
prosecutor named Eunice Carter.

Eunice Carter was an
assistant district attorney

and the very first African-American woman

to serve in that capacity in New York City.

Carter soon discovers the break in the case

Dewey has been looking for.

More than half the prostitutes arrested

had the same bail bondsman
and the same attorney.

They're all working together.

What I need is how Luciano
is connected to these people.

It's not a coincidence.

Dewey and Carter discover

that the man bailing out the prostitutes

is a known criminal with ties to the Mob.

This booker, Ralph.

Get him in here.

On what charge?

Littering, jaywalking, I don't care.

Bring him in.

Thomas Dewey believes

he's found the weak link
in Luciano's operation.

Now he just has to make the booker talk.

"What charge?"

Special prosecutor Thomas
Dewey has finally caught a break

in his case against Lucky Luciano

and brings in a booker tied
to Luciano's prostitution ring.

Now Dewey just has to get him to talk.

So, Ralph, I'm wondering what you know

about Lucky Luciano's prostitution ring.

Who?

Sometimes he's known as Charles Luciano.

Ringing any bells?

Never seen him before.

Never?

I have a lot of evidence
showing the contrary.

Are you sure that's the
answer you want to give me?

I've never seen the guy before.

That's real cute, Ralph...

but I'm almost out of patience here.

What do you know about Lucky Luciano?

If you were a rat, you were...

you couldn't be tolerated
in any way, shape or form.

I mean, they would kill you for that.

That's their unwritten law.

You and I have nothing more to talk about.

You've gotta be careful.

Dewey's coming for you
and he's got the Mayor

and half the City Council behind him.

Well, then it's a good
thing we got the other half.

You can't buy Dewey.

Okay? He's not like the others.

Meyer, everybody's got a price.

Dewey lets the booker
walk, but he has a plan...

as assistant district
attorney Eunice Carter

has introduced a new
crime-fighting technology.

I have two shifts tonight,
sometimes, um, six to 12 girls.

It all depends.

Sometimes more, sometimes less.

- Ralph...
- Hold on one second.

Beat it!

Yeah.

The use of wiretaps

was very much of an innovation at the time.

Um, no need for a court order.

Um, it's really become one of
the staples of law enforcement.

Dewey's investigators listen
to hundreds of hours of calls...

Nothing at all... I'm just
trying to enjoy my cigar.

Waiting to hear evidence against Luciano.

- Uh, about one every hour.
- Hey, Ralph.

Your numbers are off, damn it.

I did the books, so... they're not off.

I'm looking at the numbers, they're off.

Listen, if you're having trouble,

you're gonna have to talk
to Lucky about it, all right?

Well, you talk to Lucky and
then you get back with me.

All right?

Always busting my balls.

What am I listening to?

One of Luciano's bookers.

Your numbers are off, damn it.

I did the books so... they're not off.

I'm looking at the numbers, they're off.

Listen, if you're having trouble,

you're gonna have to talk
to Lucky about it, all right?

You talk to Lucky and
then you get back with me.

Find out where Mr. Luciano is.

So... why do they call you Lucky anyway?

You're not from around here, are you?

What makes you say that?

Just a hunch.

Police! This is a raid!

Hey, hey, hey, wait, wait!

Come on, let's move!
Come on, everybody out!

Let's go, let's go! Move it!

Everybody out! Time's up! Let's go!

Thomas Dewey organizes a citywide raid

to find Lucky Luciano.

He's not in here.

Luciano escapes,

but for Dewey, the raid isn't a total loss,

as he brings in a prostitute

who works in one of Luciano's brothels.

So, how do you know Lucky Luciano?

I don't.

You're lying to me.

You and me both know I'm
gonna be outta here...

two hours... three, tops.

Not this time.

I have you on solicitation,
disorderly conduct,

resisting arrest,
assaulting a police officer,

public lewdness, narcotics possession...

and sodomy.

Given your record, I'd say
you're looking at five to 10.

Or you can walk...

and I can expunge your prior convictions.

Just tell me everything you know

about Lucky Luciano.

All right.

He's gone.

Find him...

no matter what it takes.

Special prosecutor Thomas Dewe

is determinate to find
Mafia kingpin Luky Luciano.

He's gone.

Find him...

no matter what it takes.

But Luciano is in the last
place Dewey would look...

more than 1200 miles away,
in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Hustle-bustle of the
city streets, the subway,

who needs that, right?

This is where it's at.

You're safe here, right?

Yeah.

What about the local police?

You don't have to worry about that here.

No?

No.

With one of the most corrupt
police forces in the country,

Hot Springs is the most
sought-after hideout

for gangsters on the run from the law...

a haven filled with casinos,
overrun with gamblers,

and completely under
the control of the Mob.

When Lucky landed in Hot Springs,

it was controlled by organized crime.

Any gangster could check in
and enjoy the hospitality,

as long as that gangster promised

not to bring his criminal
activities into the town.

Back in New York, Dewey knows
if he can't find Luciano,

all the evidence he's
collected will mean nothing.

With Luciano nowhere to be found,

Dewey expands his citywide search

into a nationwide manhunt.

On April 3, 1936,

Dewey's big break won't
come from effort or strategy,

but from pure coincidence.

Lucky!

Yeah?

Lucky Luciano.

That's right.

A New York detective

working an unrelated case

recognizes Luciano while
passing through Hot Springs.

You're coming with me.

Hands off me... get your hands off me.

After months on the run,

the most powerful gangster in America

has finally been arrested.

Hey, Sheriff, let me make a phone call.

Luciano believes if he can
arrange his trial in Arkansas,

he'll be able to bribe his
way out of Dewey's charges.

Hello?

Frank, what's going on?

Charlie, don't worry, we're handling it.

We're pulling every string that we can.

Trust me, I'm on it... we're
calling in all the favors.

All right.

Just do whatever you have
to do, you understand?

The police department,
attorneys, they're all for sale.

We had them all in our hand.

Like "The Godfather," they said,

"He had the politicians."

We had them.

_

Luciano's bribes pay off

and the local sheriff personally
refuses Thomas Dewey's demand

to deliver Luciano back to New York.

Dewey soon learns that Luciano

is continuing to run his rackets.

Vito Genovese is making
millions dealing heroin...

Meyer Lansky is overseeing

the largest network of
casinos in the country...

and Frank Costello is
continuing to use his connections

to keep Luciano out of Dewey's reach.

From a jail cell in Arkansas...

Lucky Luciano is still in
full control of his empire.

If you have a situation

where you have the level
of institutional corruption

that you had in the late
1920s and early 1930s,

one of the things that you need to do

is to try to rally the
public behind your efforts.

We are entirely prepared
to prosecute Lucky Luciano.

The only problem is that
he has fled to Arkansas,

where for some reason

the authorities seem unwilling
to hand him over to us.

Lucky Luciano, to my knowledge...

To put pressure on
Arkansas state officials,

Dewey takes his case to the media...

and while still in police custody,

Lucky Luciano is named
Public Enemy Number One.

We are entirely prepared
to prosecute Lucky Luciano.

The only problem is that
he has fled to Arkansas,

where for some reason

the authorities seem unwilling
to hand him over to us.

Lucky Luciano, to my knowledge...

With Lucky Luciano protected
by a corrupt Arkansas sheriff,

Thomas Dewey goes to the press
and names the Mafia kingpin

Public Enemy Number One.

The motivation for calling
Luciano Public Enemy Number One

was to personalize the corruption

and the criminal conduct.

Luciano is widely regarded

as the most important
racketeer in the country,

and this case involves one of
the most loathsome of crimes,

exploiting the most
vulnerable, downtrodden women

in our society.

Thomas E. Dewey utilized

a two-pronged approach to get
Luciano out of Hot Springs.

In addition to putting pressure
on the police departments,

he also got the press involved

and accused Hot Springs

of being afraid to release
Luciano into his custody.

We intend to see Lucky Luciano in prison

for the longest possible amount of time.

I'm not afraid of Thomas Dewey.

I'm just an American
citizen defending my rights.

I happen to respect and think
Mr. Dewey's an intelligent man

and a great prosecutor.

This is about politics, the
most vicious kind of politics...

To counter Dewey's attack,

Luciano launches his own press campaign.

I might not be the most
moral man in this world,

but I have never in my life
supported or participated

in the practice of prostitution.

And I have every confidence
that the authorities in Arkansas

will uphold the law

and send this man Luciano to meet his fate

in a court of law here in New York City,

where his crimes...

For days, Luciano and Dewey wage war

through press conferences
and national headlines.

He can say whatever he wants in
the paper, but I tell you this.

Any jury or judge will see it my way,

and this case will be dropped,
and I will be set free.

Let's see if my luck'll change a bit.

Give me three.

With lawyers fighting his extradition

and the local sheriff in his pocket,

Luciano believes it's only a matter of time

before he's released.

Full house.

Hmm... can't beat that.

Send Luciano out!

Dewey's press campaign has paid off,

and with public pressure
on state officials,

the Arkansas governor
is forced to send a team

of heavily armed state
troopers to Hot Springs.

State troopers.

On April 4, 1936, the most
powerful gangster in the country

is forced to surrender.

What's your name, cop?

It's a long way to New York

from Arkansas, no conversation.

How much they paying you?

Tell you what, I'll give
you $10,000 right now

if you let me go... cash.

What do you say, copper?

This whole case is a stretch.

It's not a stretch.

He's very smart.

Well, we're smart too.

Back in New York, Lucky
Luciano is out on bail,

facing charges of compulsory prostitution.

With just days to prepare for the trial,

the notorious gangster meets
with his lawyer and his crew

to plan his defense against
special prosecutor Thomas Dewey.

Charlie, this guy really knows his stuff.

That doesn't mean he's gonna win.

And he's coming after you hard.

Has anyone tried to
look into this guy, huh?

Pay him off? Dewey
doesn't care about money.

Does he care about his life?

Listen to me.

There's nothing funny about these charges.

He's right.

Dewey means business.

Look, there's a lot of
things they can get me on...

but not this.

That's not gonna happen.

Court will come to order.

The case of New York State
versus Charles Luciano.

Thomas Dewey finally has Lucky Luciano

right where he wants him,

and after three years of building his case,

Dewey is determined to put
the gangster away for good.

Court will come to order.

The case of New York State
versus Charles Luciano.

In 1936, the most powerful
Mob boss in America

finally goes on trial.

The prosecution of
Luciano was the first time

that a Mob member of that
seniority and stature and power

had been called to account in a courtroom.

It was extraordinarily
dangerous to take the Mafia on.

They had operated with
impunity for a very long time.

They had substantial segments
of law enforcement and the courts

in their pocket.

So there was a very
substantial personal risk

for my grandfather.

Your Honor, the prosecution
calls Miss Jane Smith.

Thomas Dewey launches into his case,

calling prostitutes from around
the city to take the stand.

You say you were afraid
to go to the police. Why?

I know what they do to squealers.

Plenty of girls who talked
got burned with cigarettes...

their tongues cut.

I want to be very specific here.

Since you started working
at this establishment,

how many men would you see in a day?

15... sometimes 20.

I didn't even know what heroin was,

and... at first it was free.

Then it wasn't free anymore.

In total, Dewey calls 68 witnesses...

and while the prosecutor's strategy

to shock and outrage the
jury seems to be working,

Luciano is unfazed.

Luciano is convinced it will take more

than just the testimonies of
prostitutes to take him down.

Your Honor, the prosecution

calls Florence Brown to the stand.

Would you state your
name for the jury, please?

Florence Brown.

Do you go by any other names?

People call me Cokey Flo.

Why do they call you that?

Take a wild guess.

'Cause I like to use cocaine.

Where do you get cocaine from?

Different places...

different people.

Depends.

Have you ever received cocaine...

from anybody in this courtroom?

Yes.

Would you be so good as to point
out that person to the jury?

Let the record show that
the witness is pointing

at Charles "Lucky" Luciano.

Was this cocaine a gift?

Uh, a mark of Mr.
Luciano's, uh, generosity?

Not exactly.

Please, enlighten us.

He knew I was an addict...

he knew it was my weakness...

so he used it to control me and my girls.

He said he wanted to run the whorehouses

just like they do the grocery stores.

The grocery stores?

I'm not sure I understand.

People come in, they pay for the
merchandise, they leave happy.

He wanted to get as
many customers in and out

as quickly as possible.

No further questions, Your Honor.

_

Thomas Dewey may have tipped
the scales in his favor...

but Luciano is determined
to make a comeback...

and against his lawyer's advice,
Luciano does the unthinkable.

The New York kingpin will take
the stand in his own defense...

in a move that could destroy everything.

Mr. Luciano...

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