LUCKY LUCIANO FBI FILES

645 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and archived on CD-ROM, covering Charles "Lucky" Luciano. Files contains approximately 350 informational pages made up of memos written by FBI agents, informant accounts, miscellany, and newspaper articles. Most material covers the late 1940's and early 1950's. The infamous gangster, Charles Luciano was nicknamed "Lucky" after surviving a gangland "ride" in 1929, in which he was beaten, stabbed repeatedly with an ice pick, had his throat slashed, was thrown from a car and left for dead. He had an extensive arrest record and in June, 1936, Luciano was convicted on 62 of 90 counts of compulsory prostitution and was sentenced to 30 to 50 years imprisonment. He was paroled in 1946 on the condition that he would be deported to his native Italy. During the remainder of his life, the FBI received allegations from time to time that Luciano continued to direct criminal activities in the United States from his place of exile. He suffered a fatal heart attack in Italy in 1962