Luciano and his board unleashed a countrywide purge of the underworld that became known as “the Night of the Sicilian Vespers.” Luciano had wooed key allies, but he also knew that some of the bosses would not go along with him. Killers like Vito Genovese, and his friend Michael Miranda, and another killer named Anthony “Tony Bender” Strollo, had a field day.6 After that, everyone fell into line, and peace reigned throughout the underworld—sort of.
