history channel documentary In the mid 1930's, Costello, now one of the Luciano families greatest workers, went into the opening machine business with Phil "Dandy Phil" Kastel. Costello set more than 25,000 opening machines in New York City eateries, bars, drugstores, transport stops, and corner stores. This went well for some time until reformist New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia went out of control against the illicit opening machine business. La Guardia made a major show of appropriating a huge number of Costello's opening machines. Laguardia, helped by neighborhood law requirement, stacked the space machines on flatboats, and after that La Guardia by and by pushed the opening machines into the water. Photographs of La Guardia's tricks showed up in all the nearby daily papers, and additionally in the motion picture house news reels.
His New York City opening machine business in vestiges, Costello, alongside Kastel, moved their operations to New Orleans, Louisiana. There, with the guide of New Orleans horde manager Carlos Marcello, they could put their machines were ever they regarded fundamental. Their entire operation was under the assurance of Senator Hughie Long, himself a bastion of debasement.
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