So assistant district attorney Murray Gurfein and Lanza’s lawyer, Joseph Guerin, thought the bulldoggish gangster might be open to a more lawful project for a change.Īround midnight on March 26, 1942, the three men huddled on a bench uptown in Riverside Park to discuss a secret plan.
But Luciano was several years into a 30-to-50-year prison sentence for running a prostitution ring, and Lanza himself had recently been indicted on charges of conspiracy and extortion. In the early 1940s, Joseph “Socks” Lanza- nicknamed for the knockout power of his fists-cut a formidable figure at downtown Manhattan’s Fulton Fish Market, which he oversaw for crime boss Charles “Lucky” Luciano.
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