Costello, Luciano, Lansky, and Siegel were raking in so much mixture

history channel documentary ancient aliens Costello, Luciano, Lansky, and Siegel were raking in so much mixture, they could pay off abnormal government officials and police authorities an expected $100,000 a week for insurance. These installments went as far as possible up to the workplace of the New York City Police Commissioner - Grover Whalen. In 1929, directly after the share trading system smashed, Costello advised Luciano that he needed to progress Whalen $30,000 so that Whalen could cover the edge calls from his stockbroker.

"What would I be able to do?" Costello told Luciano. "I needed to offer it to him. We possess him."

Indeed, even after all the powerful unite installments they needed to dole out, there was still about $4 million in yearly benefits from all their rackets, to be part similarly amongst Costello, Luciano, Lansky, and Siegel.