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This FBI file concerns Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, also known as Salvatore Lucania, a major New York organized-crime figure who was later deported to Italy. A 1935 Bureau memorandum compiles identification records, arrests, associations with other racketeers, and reports that Luciano may have had information about fugitive Alvin Karpis. Later records include an Alien Enemy Control report on his imprisonment at Great Meadow Prison and a 1946 Justice Department inquiry following Frank Costello's visit to Luciano at Ellis Island before deportation. Records from 1957 and 1958 track reports of Luciano's alleged contacts with American racketeers and rumors that he had returned to the United States, which the FBI's Rome legal attache said were false because he remained in Italy under police surveillance.

FBI file number: 100-5170 | Documents span: 1935-1958 | Released in 3 parts
Names in this file: Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, Salvatore Lucania, Benjamin Siegel, Arthur 'Dutch' Schultz, Jack Diamond, Alvin Karpis, Frank Costello, Fiorello La Guardia, Thomas Clark, Albert Anastasia, George Raft, Frank Carbo
Subjects: organized crime, racketeering, deportation, anti-racketeering, FBI surveillance, Italy