People v. Luciano

Charles Luciano was convicted in June, 1936, upon sixty-two counts of an indictment charging him with violating subdivisions 2, 4 and 8 of section 2460 of the Penal Law, acting in concert with other men named in the same indictment. Nine of these other men were sentenced at the same time. Luciano and the rest were by the jury’s verdict pronounced guilty of conducting and directing on a large scale the business of prostituting women, with features of wholesale oppression and corruption. At the trial Luciano was proved to be the leader of the conspiracy and his counsel concedes that if he was…