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125 years ago Salvatore Lucanija who is better known as Charles "Varnishes" Luchano Charles — one of key figures in organized crime of United States of America was born. The Italian emigrant did a way from the drug trafficker to the boss of a mafia and the ideologist "Cosa nostra", and then helped the authorities during war. History of the Sicilian who has taken under control the American criminal world — in a photo gallery of newspaper "Kommersant". Salvatore Lucanija (on a photo in the center) was born on November 24, 1897 on Sicily (Italy). In 1906 when the boy was eight years old, his family immigrated to New York (United States of America). Almost at once Lukaniya entered Five Points Gang gang on...