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Previously...

on "The Making of
New York"...

For nearly a decade,
Charles "Lucky" Luciano

has run his criminal empire
from a maximum-security prison.

But the outbreak
of World War II...

A date
which will live in infamy.

Has given him
the opportunity to get out.

You'll never guess
who I got a call from.

Who?
The FBI.

From behind bars,
Luciano strikes deals

with the FBI
and the U.S. Navy...

Well, listen, sir,
just because we're businessmen,

doesn't mean we're not patriots.

We'll lock down the docks.

Using the Mafia's control
of the waterfront

to gain leverage
with the government.

Come on, let's go,
we can move faster.

But Luciano's former
acting boss, Vito Genovese,

becomes a major problem...

Freeze! Freeze! Don't move,
don't move, don't move!

When he's arrested in Italy

and sent back to New York
on a murder rap.

He's gonna testify.
How could you be so stupid?

With a witness
lined up to testify,

Luciano orders a hit...

Time for your daily dose.

that saves Genovese,

but does nothing to earn
Luciano his freedom.

When will we know?
That's up to Dewey.

Finally, Thomas Dewey
lets Luciano out of prison,

but at a steep price.

They're deporting you...
to Italy.

You came all
this way to see me go.

Now, Luciano
will have to figure out

how to keep control
of the American Mafia...

Come visit me sometime, huh?

From 4,000 miles away.

♪♪

♪ This ain't no time ♪

♪ To feel sorry
for myself ♪

♪ I can't help it ♪

♪ 'Cause there's nobody else ♪

♪ And
I walk these streets ♪

♪ With your name
on my tongue ♪

♪ But I dare not speak ♪

♪ Only
there it belongs ♪

♪ There's got to be
a better way ♪

♪ Better way ♪♪

♪♪

After 10 years in prison,

Lucky Luciano
is finally a free man.

But he's been exiled to Italy

and told he can never
return to America.

In the 40 years

since Luciano arrived
in the United States,

the no-name
Sicilian immigrant

has become a legend.

Creating a criminal empire

alongside the friends
he's had for decades.

Lucky Luciano
is a Sicilian immigrant

and actually fits
that perfect mold of a guy

who comes to this country.

It's almost like achieving
the American dream, but...

the dark side as opposed
to the light side.

Now, Luciano's been
forced to leave the future

of the American Mafia
in the hands of his crew.

Nothing's changed, gentlemen.

Lucky's still calling the shots.

You're being modest, Frank.

Of course, he is.

He's a modest guy.

With Luciano 4,000 miles away,

Frank Costello is the acting
boss of Luciano's family

and must keep the peace between
the five New York crime families

run by gangsters

like Joe Bonanno
and Joe Profaci.

You have our confidence.

The man Costello
replaced, Vito Genovese,

has been released from prison

only to find himself demoted

within the organization.

What's on your mind, Vito?

How do we make things right
between me and Charlie?

I think you're talking
to the wrong guy.

He's got me running the street
gang like some punk.

That's not right.

It's out of my hands.

I thought you was
in charge here?

Do you want me to go
over Charlie's head?

He's making me look like a fool.

Vito
Genovese was very envious.

He felt that he had been
short-changed,

weren't getting all the benefits
and all the wealth.

And it was no question

that he was an archrival
of Costello.

While Costello
deals with Genovese,

Meyer Lansky is overseeing
an aggressive plan

to expand the Luciano empire

outside the United States.

It's nice being close
to the sea.

We have the same thing
in New York,

but it's nothing like this.
You have Coney Island.

We have Coney Island.

Meyer Lansky has
spent years paying off

powerful Cuban politician
Fulgencio Batista.

Toast.

To a beautiful future
in a beautiful place.

My grandfather loved Cuba.

He loved the Cuban people.
He loved the weather.

Hopefully we'll be spending
a lot of time down here.

Batista knew
that my grandfather

was known for being honest.

He brought him over

and he started
cleaning up the games.

There we go. Big winner.

With Batista on the payroll,

Lansky moves forward
transforming

Havana's seedy hotels
into five-star casinos...

that had the potential to make
millions of dollars a day.

Meyer Lansky wanted
to be a legitimate businessman.

And he just knew
how to run a casino.

I mean, the numbers, the odds,
how the house always wins.

What games they should play,
how to take care of people.

And his idea

was really to do that
ultimately in Cuba.

While Lansky's
laying the foundation in Cuba,

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel

has set up a stronghold
for the family in California.

Take good care of her, that's
what you could do for me, right?

Thank you, here we go.

Hey, how we doing
over here, huh?

Luciano's trusted hit man

has been in Los Angeles
since the late '30s.

He's infiltrated
the movie industry,

using mob-run unions to gain
leverage with the studios.

But after his years of loyalty,

Siegel still has nothing
to call his own.

Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese,

Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky.

Each of Siegel's childhood crew
has either been the boss

or has had the freedom
to run his own operation.

Siegel wants to be remembered

as more than just a trigger man.

He wants a lasting legacy.

Siegel sees his opportunity
300 miles east

in a stretch of
barren Nevada desert

known as Las Vegas.

Las Vegas was a patch of sand.

There weren't any buildings
taller than two stories high.

It didn't have
any kind of a reputation.

It was hard to get to.

It may be a barren desert now,

but Siegel sees
what no one else can,

a gambling mecca.

Nevada is one of
the few states in the country

that has legalized gambling.

I've been having
this vision, right?

And I look off into the dark
desert and see these lights.

They're so bright that
they'll blind you, right?

And I see people and hotels

and casinos and money.

Lots of money.

Siegel's vision

is a European-style
mega hotel and casino

that will attract the Hollywood
crowd and the high rollers.

And also bring in tourists
willing to cough up

thousands of dollars a night.

Siegel names his hotel
after his nickname

for his long-legged
girlfriend,

Virginia Hill, the Flamingo.

Bugsy Siegel
saw that the future

of entertainment and gambling

and all that
Las Vegas stands for,

as far as being an exciting
tourist destination,

would be possible here
in this desert.

But in order to
make his dream a reality,

Siegel needs one thing...

money.

It's a little
town called Las Vegas.

How much, Benny?

A million dollars.
A million dollars?

You want us to pump a million
dollars into the desert

when we already got
casinos making money?

Yeah, 'cause there's
one major difference.

Gambling in Vegas is legal.

100%.
Legal, huh?

I'm telling you, you got
people from L.A. coming over.

You got people from up North.

Get the bigwig
movie stars out there,

get some appearances going,
some press.

I'm talking fancy casino.

You know, nice restaurants,
good hotel rooms.

It's a good investment, right?

You put that money in,
we get this thing going,

we'll triple that profit
in a week.

And, listen, I've stood
by you a long time.

I think this is a good idea.

Well, you better
be right, Benny.

Luciano pledges to help
fund his friend's Las Vegas dream.

But he knows he'll need
an even bigger venture

if he's going to maintain
his place in the Mafia.

In the case of organized crime
figures, you have to be successful.

You have to make money.
You have to be imaginative.

And if you're not making money,

you're gonna lose stature
in the family.

During the war,
Vito Genovese made millions

exporting Italy's legally
manufactured heroin

to the United States.

Now, Luciano seizes

what's left of Genovese's
smuggling operation...

and makes it his own.

The drug business was huge.

The amount of money
that you could make

in one day with drugs,

it would take you years
to make gambling.

With heroin
now illegal in Italy,

Luciano invests hundreds of
thousands of dollars

converting Sicilian
candy factories

into underground heroin labs.

Luciano knows

with his vast criminal network
in the United States,

he already has a market
of millions of customers.

All he needs now is a way
to smuggle the drugs

into America undetected.

♪♪

Hey, wake up, your portrait's in
"The New York Times".

Uh... thank you.

Charlie. Oh.

So good to see you.

Even if it is a pain
in the ass to get here.

It's good to see you, too.

But don't unpack yet.

And wire your wife.

Let her know we'll be gone
for a few more weeks.

What? What's going on?

I want to go to Cuba.

See this operation
you've built for us.

Luciano realizes

that Cuba is the missing piece
to what could be

a billion dollar
drug operation in America.

Now all he needs to do

is sell the idea
to the rest of the Mafia.

After seven months in exile,

Lucky Luciano
leaves Italy in secret...

and heads to a country

that's become a safe haven
for the mob...

and is only 90 miles away
from America...

Cuba.

Meyer Lansky's association
with the Cuban government

allows mobsters to operate
without interference,

making it the perfect place

for Luciano
to make his comeback.

Luciano calls for a gathering

that will bring the Five
Families to the island country

to reaffirm his status

and announce a plan
to expand the Mafia's power.

It will become known
as the Havana Summit.

You ladies
enjoying yourselves?

For his long-awaited return,

Luciano decides to go big

and brings a well-known
performer in from New York City

named Frank Sinatra.

♪♪

Why shouldn't a
group of wealthy entrepreneurs

who are gathered for an event
hire an entertainer?

It happens all the time.

In this case, it happened to be
a bunch of gangsters

bringing in the guy
we came to know

as the "Chairman of the Board".

Sinatra did indeed
have friends in the Mafia.

But if you're a singer,
who are you dealing with?

I mean, who owns the nightclubs?

Mafia leaders.

They had this big party.
You look very nice.

Everybody came
and they brought money

and they brought gifts
to Luciano.

Everybody was happy,
and they thought that Luciano

would be on the next boat
back to the United States.

With America's
top gangsters assembled,

Luciano gets down to business.

I called this meeting
to personally tell you

about our intentions
for the future.

His first proposal
is to get the families

to invest in Bugsy Siegel's
Las Vegas casino

in an attempt to do
what Lansky has done for Cuba

on American soil.

Part two of Luciano's plan

is an even more ambitious
and lucrative proposal.

We're gonna be bringing a
lot more heroin into the country.

From Italy to Cuba to Florida...

and then from
New York to Los Angeles.

You guys are gonna have to
get your transportation,

your storage and your
distribution in order.

Because if we do
this thing right,

we'll make 10 times more
than we did last year

and then 10 times more
the year after that.

And everybody
will get their cut.

How about the guy who set
the whole thing up?

What do you mean, Vito?

You know what I'm talking about.
No, I don't.

Where's my cut?

Why don't we talk
about that after?

While the assembled families

agree to Luciano's proposals,

Genovese feels he's being
cut out of the heroin racket

he set up in Italy.

♪♪

Luciano's factories in Italy

begin producing tens of
thousands of pounds of heroin,

which is then smuggled
across the Atlantic

through the Caribbean
and into the United States.

Luciano was key in setting up,

uh, the importation of heroin.

He had set up

the first pipeline

for the heroin to come
into the United States.

From his
headquarters in Havana,

Lucky Luciano is now in control

of a global narcotics empire.

But there's still
even more money to be made.

2,000 miles from Cuba

in the middle of
the Nevada desert,

Bugsy Siegel had
just broken ground

on a luxury hotel and casino.

When you talk about
visionaries of Las Vegas,

you gotta put at the very top

a fella like
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.

The Five Families have
invested millions of dollars

in Siegel's vision
to turn Las Vegas

into the gambling capital
of the country.

Bugsy, we gotta talk numbers.

So in order to be
ready for opening,

we need 300,000
for building material,

500,000 for plumbing

and 700,000 for labor?

Yeah.
How is this possible?

But the massive project
is already encountering problems.

Siegel wasn't necessarily
the best businessman.

The Flamingo's costs

were spectacularly overrun.

That's a million and a half
more I need to come up with.

We're in the desert.
I got trucks coming, I got...

Listen, hey,
keep the guys working.

I'll get the money.

Just build the damn hotel.

Siegel's operation
has gone wildly over budget,

forcing him to borrow more money
from the Five Families.

Now more than ever,

he needs the Flamingo
to succeed.

♪♪

Lucky Luciano is running
his criminal empire from Cuba.

And he's using the island nation

to smuggle heroin
into the United States.

My pleasure, my pleasure,
enjoy yourselves.

There was so much money
in the drug trade

that every family sooner
or later got into it.

No one could stay away from it.

While the mob
is making a fortune

on Luciano's drug ring...

Vito Genovese believes

he's the one
who deserves the respect

and a larger cut of the profit.

Luciano, he just
did not like Genovese.

He hated him.

Genovese was a powerful man,

uh, but, uh,
they didn't get along.

They never got along.

I like your...

Did you forget about
our meeting, Charlie?

No, I didn't forget
about our meeting.

You're holding me down, Charlie.

And I want to know why.

You want to know the truth?
Yeah.

'Cause you're stupid.

I done all right for myself.

Yeah.

Because me and Meyer and Frank
have looked out for you

all your life, that's why.

I earned my place in this thing.

And I deserve some respect.

You deserve what
I tell you you deserve.

And you've earned nothing.

Well, since we're
telling the truth...

how's it feel to know you're
never going back to New York?

Must hurt.

It's gonna hurt even more
when the feds catch up with you.

How would the feds
know where I am, Vito?

Who's to say
they don't already know?

Huh? What have you got?

Come on.

For decades,
Luciano and Genovese

have been loyal
business partners.

But Luciano realizes
that from now on,

Genovese can't be trusted.

Meanwhile, 2,000 miles away

in a Nevada desert,

Bugsy Siegel's
luxury hotel and casino

is finally complete.

To build the Flamingo,

Siegel's borrowed
the modern-day equivalent

of $60 million from the mob.

Bugsy saw his
chance in Las Vegas

because he'd invested everything
in this sort of dream

of building a legitimate
gambling empire

just like Steve Wynn
or anybody else.

Bugsy Siegel knows the
Flamingo has to be a huge success.

But on opening night,
a huge storm hits Las Vegas.

And with many of
the hotel rooms unfinished,

Bugsy Siegel's big opening
is a bust.

Bugsy Siegel,
he had this great vision

of having this luxury resort
in the middle of the desert

that would attract people,
that would become something big.

But the night
the Flamingo opened,

December 26th, 1946,

the hotel wasn't ready.

And the costs

were spectacularly overrun.

Virginia, get me a drink.

Sure.

Chin up, huh?
We'll be all right.

It's this weather
slowing everyone down.

Yeah.
It'll be all right, baby.

Here's to you, doll.

In the first week it's open,

the Flamingo loses
the modern-day equivalent

of $3.6 million

and Siegel is forced
to shut down.

His Las Vegas dream

has turned into a nightmare.

♪♪

In 1947,

just two weeks after
its opening night,

Bugsy Siegel's Las Vegas hotel

has been forced to close.

And his boss
and business partner,

Lucky Luciano, wants answers.

Meyer, this isn't good.

There's a lot of money
unaccounted for.

I really think this thing
can make money.

He just needs
a little more time.

Meyer, I love you
like a brother.

And I love Ben like a brother.

But time is running out on him.

You know it, he knows it.

Meyer Lansky manages
to buy more time for Bugsy Siegel

to make the Flamingo a success.

And Siegel knows that this time,

he has to pull it off.

He finally completes the
construction of the guest rooms.

He pays publicists
to hype the event...

and calls in favors

from all of his
celebrity friends.

Bugsy was kind of
like the Italian gangster

of Jewish gangsters.

He was flash, he was out in
public, he was dating starlets.

And sort of like his full-time
gig was being Bugsy Siegel.

♪♪

On a clear Las Vegas night,

three months after
closing its doors,

The Flamingo was ready
for its second grand opening.

And gamblers from
all over the country

show up to spend their money.

Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo Hotel

was really the first
of its kind.

It had its great restaurants,

it had its terrific bars,

swimming pools, gorgeous women.

I mean, it was a precursor

of what Las Vegas is today.

Welcome to the Flamingo.
Enjoy yourself.

How are you tonight? Good, how are you?
You look beautiful.

Oh, thank you.

After more than a year
of delays and budget overages...

Bugsy Siegel's big gamble
on a forgotten desert town

finally pays off.

While Bugsy Siegel
is riding high,

Vito Genovese is convinced

it's time he gets
a bigger cut of the profits

for laying the groundwork

for Luciano's
Italian heroin racket.

I just can't get it
out of my head.

Try.
I'm trying.

Well, then try harder.

They had nothing before me...
nothing!

Now what are they clearing?

A couple million dollars.

Every week.
Each and every week.

That's my money.

You should take it back.

Baby, it's not that complicated.

As Vito
Genovese looks for a way

to be the boss once again,

the U.S. government

eliminates one of his
greatest obstacles.

The Federal Bureau of Narcotics

has had Lucky Luciano
under surveillance in Cuba.

And soon learns of his drug ring

importing heroin
into the United States

on a massive scale.

The United States decided that
they didn't want Luciano here.

And they put pressure
on the Cuban government...

and made the Cuban government

send him back to Italy,

which was the last thing
he wanted to do at that point.

In March of 1947,

Luciano is forced
to board a ship

bound for Italy.

♪♪

Destroying his dreams

of returning to America.

After being
deported to Italy again,

Lucky Luciano's control
of his empire

has continued to crumble.

And he's made
a dangerous new enemy

out of Vito Genovese.

While Bugsy Siegel's casino
is finally turning a profit,

none of the mob bosses
who invested

are getting their cut.

Well, how fast do we get to making that up?
I don't know.

This is an investment, there's a
certain way it should be run.

It should be here.
$6 million.

He's gotten very soft, Bugsy.

Listen, I trust Bugsy,
I grew up with him.

Yeah, but he has a soft spot,
you know, and he can't see.

He likes the broads too much.
That's what I'm talking about.

Exactly.
He's become Mr. Hollywood.

But all this exposure's
not needed.

In New York,

the other families are
beginning to lose patience

with Bugsy Siegel.

There were stories that
Virginia Hill stole money.

There were stories
that Bugsy Siegel stole money.

And the investors are
not happy with all that.

And, eventually,
mobsters get together

and are debating what are
we going to do about this?

What happened?

Virginia Hill is what happened.

One of our guys at the airport
just spotted Miss Hill

on a flight to Switzerland
with a ton of luggage.

The Flamingo
is packed every night.

They're turning people away
at the door.

Where the hell is the money?

I'll tell you where it is.

It's on a damn plane to
Switzerland with Virginia Hill.

It's gotta be done, Meyer.

Lucky and I don't
like it any more than you do.

Frank...

Let me talk to him.

♪♪

♪ Jesus, I am coming
home today ♪

♪ For I have found ♪

♪ There's joy in Thee alone ♪

♪ From the path of sin ♪

♪ I turn away ♪

♪ Now I am coming home ♪

♪ Jesus, I am coming
home today ♪

♪ Never, never more from Thee
to stray ♪

♪ Lord I now accept
Thy precious promise ♪

To the Lower East Side Gang.

Salud.

You came all this way
to see me go?

Had to say good-bye.

In the life,

you justify your actions

and you figure a way out
to make yourself believe

that it's okay
to do illegal things,

immoral things,
commit acts of violence.

You can't have any regrets.

On June 20th, 1947,

Bugsy Siegel is shot
nine times in Beverly Hills.

Siegel becomes

the first of Luciano's
original crew

to be killed.

The death of
Bugsy Siegel still...

It's like the death
of John F. Kennedy.

It's a big mystery.

He lost a lot of
the mob's money.

And he had done something
that people got killed for

doing with the mob.

And the people most often
killed by the mob

are other mobsters, so it
seems to fit that pattern.

Exactly what was decided

is not entirely known.

As for who did it,
there have been stories

that it was this hit man
or that hit man.

That it was because
of the skimming,

that it was due to the Flamingo
not making profits.

There's even a theory that
because he and Virginia Hill

had a very difficult
relationship,

that her brother
was avenging that,

and it had nothing to do
with the mob.

What happened?

Well, according to the Beverly
Hills Police Department,

it is still an open case.

20 minutes after his murder,

Meyer Lansky's men

take control of the Flamingo.

♪♪

In 1947, Bugsy Siegel,

one of Lucky Luciano's
oldest friends

and business partners,
has been murdered.

And while the mob has moved
quickly to take over

Siegel's hotel in Las Vegas

and Luciano's authority
has been restored...

another member of
Luciano's operation

begins organizing
his own fight for control.

Frustrated by his lack of
power within the Mafia...

Vito Genovese
wants to be boss again

and begins to look outside
the Luciano family for help.

He reaches out
to a mid-level gangster

in one of the other
New York families.

A 46-year-old
Sicilian underboss

in the Mangano family

named Carlo Gambino.

Why don't you tell me
what's on your mind?

I don't know how much more of
this crap I can take, Carlo.

Oh, you know Lucky.

The man holds a grudge.

You think I plan on taking
orders from the Manganos

and Anastasia
the rest of my life?

So what are you waiting for?
The right opportunity.

As should you.

Just stay in the game.

Genovese sees
an ally in Gambino.

A like-minded mobster
with ambitions

of climbing the ranks
of the New York Mafia.

Carlo Gambino was old school,

quiet, reticent,

secretive, very secretive.

While Genovese and Gambino

wait for their chance
to make a move,

a new challenge rises
for the New York underworld.

In May of 1950,

an ambitious U.S. senator
named Estes Kefauver

forms a committee
to investigate the Mafia,

including New York's
most notorious mobsters.

It's the largest effort
to expose organized crime

in U.S. history

in what will come to be known
as the Kefauver Hearings.

A Senate investigating committee

held a series of hearings
to get at organized crime.

In addition, they made
the very smart decision

to televise
some of the hearings.

In front of a
television audience of 30 million,

the Mafia takes the stand.

I decline to answer
on the grounds

that it may incriminate me.

I refuse to answer

on the grounds that it may
tend to incriminate me.

The witnesses are very cool.

They just take the Fifth,
which the Constitution provides,

and say they're not going to
tend to incriminate them.

As the hearings drag on,

acting boss Frank Costello

begins to see his name
mentioned in the press,

often linked to horrific
murders and crimes.

When he's finally
called to testify,

Costello decides to take
a different approach.

Frank, you have to listen to me.
I'm listening.

You gotta take the Fifth. That's
what makes you look guilty.

Moses, will you talk to him?

Frank, the more you talk,

the more trouble
you're gonna get into.

I can talk to these men.

Frank Costello
was rather unique.

He had hope,
aspiration and drive

to be perceived

as a somewhat legitimate person.

And he thought he was part
of American capitalism.

What have you ever done for
your country as a U.S. citizen?

Paid my tax.

Frank Costello
went before TV cameras

when there was an investigation

into organized crime in America.

He thought he could outwit

some lowly prosecutor or lawyer.

Do you want to
qualify your answer?

Yes, I'd like to qualify it.

How so?

I want what I said,

specifically what I said,

on the official record.

Costello made a mistake

in thinking that he could handle

a Senate investigating committee

the way he handled
local politicians.

They're different breeds of cat.

It contradicts

your earlier testimony.

No, it doesn't.

Would you like
me to refresh your memory?

Ahem, you don't
need to refresh my memory.

My memory's fine.

I'd be happy to read back

your earlier testimony.

I can refresh
my own memory, thank you.

Guy lost his mind.

With the hearings revealing

a weakness in
Costello's leadership,

Vito Genovese
knows his opportunity

has finally come.

And with Carlo Gambino
on his side,

Genovese is ready to strike back

at Lucky Luciano

by taking down Frank Costello.

♪♪