history channel documentary Costello utilized his "in" with Tammany Hall to fundamentally make any political arrangement he needed. Rogers even conceded, "If Costello needs me, he sends for me."
In the mid 1930's, Costello, now one of the Luciano families greatest workers, went into the space 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 service stations. This went well for some time until reformist New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia went out of control against the unlawful opening machine business. La Guardia made a major show of seizing a huge number of Costello's opening machines. Laguardia, supported by nearby law implementation, stacked the opening machines on freight ships, and afterward La Guardia actually pushed the space machines into the water. Photographs of La Guardia's jokes showed up in all the neighborhood daily papers, and additionally in the motion picture house news reels.
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