The gang went into bootlegging, backed by criminal financier Arnold "the Brain" Rothstein. The Luciano-Costello-Lansky-Siegel alliance prospered even further with the passage of Prohibition in 1920. To Luciano's shock, they warned him against working with Costello, whom they called "the dirty Calabrian." Īlong with Italian American associates Vito Genovese and Tommy "Three-Finger Brown" Lucchese, and Jewish associates Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, the gang became involved in robbery, theft, extortion, gambling and narcotics.
They were mostly old-school mafiosi who were unwilling to work with anyone who was not Italian, and skeptical at best about working with non-Sicilians. Several older members of Luciano's mob family disapproved of this growing partnership. The two Italians immediately became friends and partners. While working for the Morello gang, Costello met Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, the Sicilian leader of Manhattan's Lower East Side gang. That same year, Costello served ten months in jail for carrying a concealed weapon.Īlliance with Luciano Charles "Lucky" Luciano's mugshot In 1918, he married Lauretta Geigerman, a Jewish woman who was the sister of a close friend. Costello committed petty crimes and went to jail for assault and robbery in 1908, 1912, and 1917. At 13, he had become a member of a local gang and started using the name Frankie. While Costello was still a boy, his brother introduced him to gang activities. In 1895, he boarded a ship to the United States with his mother and his brother Edward to join their father, who had moved to New York City's East Harlem several years earlier and opened a small neighborhood Italian grocery store.
Costello died on February 18, 1973.Ĭostello was born on January 26, 1891, in Lauropoli, a frazione of the town of Cassano allo Ionio in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region, Italy. However, the altercation persuaded Costello to relinquish power to Genovese and retire. In 1957, Costello survived an assassination attempt ordered by Vito Genovese and carried out by Vincent Gigante. Frank Costello ( Italian: born Francesco Castiglia Janu– February 18, 1973) was an Italian-American crime boss of the Luciano crime family.
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