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The July 2012 issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement focuses on the underworld history of America’s “Brew City,” Milwaukee.

This month's issue features:

• Vito Guardalabene and the Early Milwaukee Mafia, 1903-1921 by Joshua R. Henze

• Milwaukee-Area Mafia Membership Chart by Bill…

The average Mafia aficionado likely feels that he or she already knows a great deal about New York gangland chieftain Charlie "Lucky" Luciano. Just about everyone knows, for example, that Luciano survived being taken "for a ride" by his rivals, that he was nicknamed "Lucky" as a result of that episode and that he single-handledly revolutionized organized crime in…