The all-time Criminal Draft

[Bird]

Ok, my last two picks:

Guiseppe Antonio "Joe Adonis" Doto

He's going to be my in to the famous people of New York, primarily the theater folks and be another member of the bootlegging side of things.

Doto started supporting himself by stealing and picking pockets. While working on the streets, Doto became friends with future mob boss Charles Lucky Luciano and mobster Settimo "Big Sam" Accardi, who were involved in illegal gambling. Doto developed a strong loyalty to Luciano and Accardi that would last for decades. At the beginning of Prohibition, Luciano and Adonis borrowed $35,000 from other mob associates and started a bootlegging operation in Brooklyn. This operation soon began supplying large amounts of alcohol to the show business community along Broadway in Manhattan. Doto soon assumed the role of a gentleman bootlegger, socializing with the theater elite.

Charles "Lucky" Luciano

The father of modern organized crime, Luciano will be Capone's consigliere. His knowledge and abilities is exactly what The Organization needs.

[QUOTE]Rise to power

At an early age Luciano had established himself as a creative thug on the Lower East Side and eventually worked his way up to being a top aide to crime boss Joe Masseria. In the 1920s Masseria was involved in a prolonged turf war with rival crime boss Salvatore Maranzano.

Masseria was a "Mustache Pete", an old-school mafioso who wanted to preserve the old Mafia ideals of "honor," "tradition," "respect" and dignity in America. Luciano and his contemporaries who had "made their bones" in the United States, on the other hand, were known as the "Young Turks." Like the original Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire, they formed a young, ambitious, impatient group which challenged the established order. The Mustache Petes would not work with anyone who was not Italian, and were skeptical of working with anyone who wasn't Sicilian. Luciano, however, believed that as long as money was being made, the roots of your partner did not matter. He was therefore shocked to hear old mafiosi lecturing him about his dealings with another mobster, Frank Costello, whom they called "the dirty Calabrian." Luciano began building contacts with Young Turks in both factions, and they secretly made plans to push out the Mustache Petes as soon as possible.

One day in 1929, Luciano was forced into a limo at gun point by three men, beaten and stabbed, and dumped on a beach on New York Bay. Luciano survived the ordeal, but was forever marked with a scar and droopy eye. The rare fact of his survival earned him the name "Lucky,"[3] although he may already have earned this nickname in his younger days because of his luck at avoiding police.[2] After his abduction, Luciano found out through Meyer Lansky that it had been ordered by Masseria's enemy, Salvatore Maranzano.[5] However, in an ironic twist, Luciano later cut a secret deal with Maranzano in which Luciano agreed to engineer Masseria's death in return for being made Maranzano's second-in-command.[6] This deal would end the famous Castellammarese War.

The Castellammarese War raged from 1928 to 1932, resulting in the deaths of many mobsters, estimated to be as many as 60.[7] The war was nominally between Maranzano and Masseria, it ended with the assassination of Masseria in a Coney Island restaurant by Bugsy Siegel, Vito Genovese, and Joe Adonis. It is rumored that Luciano was having lunch with Masseria and stepped into the men's room just as the gunmen stormed the restaurant. Luciano then took over Masseria's crime family.[6]

Maranzano then made Luciano his number two man, and set up the Five Families of New York under him, promising that they would all be equal and all be free to make money. However, at a meeting of all the heavy-hitting gangsters in Upstate New York, Maranzano declared himself capo di tutti capi (Boss of all Bosses), which meant every Don in the country had to pay up to him. He also whittled down the rackets of the rival families in order to strengthen his own family.

Luciano seethed inwardly at being lied to and bilked out of a few dollars, but still feigned loyalty to Maranzano. However, he was secretly planning to eliminate Maranzano. He and his colleagues had planned all along to assassinate either Masseria or Maranzano, then bide their time before killing the surviving Mustache Pete as well.

When Meyer Lansky told him that Maranzano had gotten wind of Luciano's plans, Luciano could no longer stand still. Lansky assembled a hit squad to pose as government agents. On the day Maranzano was to hire Luciano's assassin they stormed Maranzano's office, who thought he was being arrested. The squad cut Maranzano to ribbons with a volley of gunfire and repeated stabbings. On the way down the stairs, they met Mad Dog Coll, Luciano's would-be assassin.
[edit] Reorganizing Cosa Nostra

Luciano was now the model mobster, with businesses throughout the country. His longtime friend Meyer Lansky served as his right-hand man, and Luciano always followed Lansky

[Snoop_Cat]

John Paulson, or the man who famously worked with Goldman Sachs to create one of the biggest (if not biggest) financial frauds ever. His expertise will provide my gang with an outside flow of income apart from drugs as a back up way to keep a steady flow of cash. I actually don't consider him to be a criminal at all, more or so a very good businessman, but the world does apparently.

Joaqu

[sawyersauce]

Okay all picks noted. Lucky Luciano finally went.

Iamgine has 2 pending picks.
Styles is OTC.

[Styles p]

Fabio Ochoa Restrepo



[QUOTE]was a Paso Fino enthusiast, rancher, businessman, and patriarch of a notorious Colombian crime family associated with the Medell

[sawyersauce]

Okay - Iamgine has 2 pending picks and Dasher has 1 pending pick.

I'm up.

I'm taking Louis 'The Coin' Colavecchio. A former jeweler, he specialised his criminal career in making fake poker chips and slot coins. Colavecchio either sold the counterfeits in batches or used/cashed them himself. It's supposably very difficult to make counterfeit chips that actually fool the machines, hence why this isn't done very often, his unique skills will be useful for the floor team.



http://www.slotmachinesbonuscodes.co...lavecchio.html

Jasi is OTC.

[Jasi]

My last pick is another member for the team of thieves.



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[Dasher]

I am taking music impresario Berry Gordy. Payola is a crime, and Berry was proficient in the practice. Motown provides another avenue for our syndicate to wash our money.

[Jailblazers7]

Love Dashers creativity in this draft. Never thought Berry Gordy would get selected lol.

[sawyersauce]

I am taking music impresario Berry Gordy. Payola is a crime, and Berry was proficient in the practice. Motown provides another avenue for our syndicate to wash our money.

Pretty much every article I have read so far on Gordy has said he did not partake in payola schemes. Can you link me to something that confirms it?

Bird is OTC...
Iamgine has 2 pending picks.

[Dasher]

Pretty much every article I have read so far on Gordy has said he did not partake in payola schemes. Can you link me to something that confirms it?

Bird is OTC...
Iamgine has 2 pending picks.

Motown has had to pay settlements for multiple times, and used independent promoters to funnel money to radio DJs just like everyone else. If Berry is still too grey a pick, I am willing to take Lou Pearlman, the man behind Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, and New Kids On The Block for the same reasons.

[sawyersauce]

Motown has had to pay settlements for multiple times, and used independent promoters to funnel money to radio DJs just like everyone else. If Berry is still too grey a pick, I am willing to take Lou Pearlman, the man behind Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, and New Kids On The Block for the same reasons.

Eh don't stress, i'll allow him.

[Bird]

My final pick: Paul Sciacca, Enforcer, New York District

Paul Sciacca (June 15, 1909-August 1986) was a feared Brooklyn, New York based mobster who rose to power in the 1950s and 1960s serving as enforcer for the Bonanno crime family under longtime boss Joseph Bonanno, known as "Joe Bananas" to his peers. Sciacca continued his rise to prominence in New York's mafia as a war chief during the infamous "Bananas War", and then as acting boss of the Bonanno crime family under Joe Bonanno successor Gaspar DiGregorio. Sciacca was at the pinnacle of his underworld power and influence when he was officially promoted to boss by The Commission after DiGregorio retired in 1968.

[BRabbiT]

My final pick: Paul Sciacca, Enforcer, New York District

nice