10 most famous gangster of the XX century Bashny.Net

1. Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
I engage in prostitution, gambling and bootlegging. In 1925, when he was 26 years old, Capone became head of the family and waged war Torrio families. Known for his intelligence, Capone was also known for his cruelty. It is worth remembering the massacre during a concert dedicated to St. Valentine's Day in 1929, which killed a lot of heads of criminal gangs. In 1931, a federal agent Eliot Ness Revenue Service arrested him for tax evasion.

2. Charlie "Lucky" Luciano (1897 - 1962)
He controlled the racket all over Manhattan. After an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1929, Luciano decided to create a national crime syndicate and became known as the "boss of bosses" - not only in New York but across the country. He had such a strong impact that the Second World War, the US Navy turned to him for help to land in Italy.

3. Carlo Gambino (1907 - 1971)
Started killing commissioned by the age of 19. He appointed himself boss of the Gambino crime family, and held it with an iron fist until his natural death in 1976.

4. Frank Costello (1891-1973)
He was the best friend of Charlie "Lucky" Luciano. Together they engaged in bootlegging and gambling. Strength Costello was that he was the link between the Mafia and politicians, which allowed him to avoid persecution.

5. Meyer Lansky (1902 - 1983)
To borrow money and gambling in Florida, New Orleans and Cuba. One of his handshake was more reliable than any contract. He was an investor in a Las Vegas casino, and even bought an offshore bank in Switzerland to launder money. While he was engaged in racketeering gambling houses around the world, not in jail Lansky and spent the day.

6. John Gotti (1940 - 2002)
I put together a band, which in the 60s and was engaged in stealing cars and petty theft, but in the early '70s, he became the godfather of the group Bergin - part of the Gambino crime family. Gotti was very ambitious and soon started doing drugs, which were prohibited by the family. He repeatedly tried to condemn, but the charges have always failed. Gotti died in 2002 from cancer.

7. Dutch Schultz (Arthur Flegenheymer) (1902 - 1935)
He was engaged in bootlegging, ie trade in alcohol during Prohibition. Dutch Schultz managed to get hold of his own enemies as Lucky Luciano and Capone Ala. Naturally, a long time after that he had not lived.

8. Joseph Bonanno "Banana Joe» (1931-1964)
He created criminal empire in Brooklyn, which is then expanded to California, Arizona and Canada. A native of Sicily Bonanno led one of the five New York crime syndicates from 1931 until the mid-1960s. He was a member of the "Commission" - a group of leaders of mafia families which could intervene in disputes within clans.

9. Albert Anastasia (1903-1957)
In 1944 he became leader of a group of murderers that had even its name Murder, Inc. While Anastasia has never prosecuted for the murder, his group had to do 700 kills.

10. Vincent «The Chin» Gigante (1928-2005)
He was the godfather of the family Dzhenoveze.Znamenitym Gigante did what, when, as in the late '60s, he avoided prison by pretending to be mad, he continued to pretend to be abnormal, for example, walking through the streets of New York in a bathrobe.