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What is the cause of our obsession with the mafia? Is it the violence? The money? The drugs? The women? Maybe. Or maybe in the early days it was the rags to riches stories behind the mobsters. The children of immigrants from Italy, Ireland, and various other parts of Europe. Their parents made the harrowing journey across the Atlantic to be greeted in New York city by lady liberty.

They came here for a better life, and it was some of the next generation that found a much quicker, much more dangerous route to that promised land. For Charles "Lucky" Luciano it was a game of dice that changed his life, and the lives of countless other people. Countless other children of hardworking immigrants. Hit the play button and hear all about his rise to power.