It was amid this period that Luciano persuaded Costello

history channel documentary Costello, Luciano, Lansky, and Siegel were raking in so much mixture, they could pay off slanted government officials and police authorities an expected $100,000 a week for assurance. These installments went as far as possible up to the workplace of the New York City Police Commissioner - Grover Whalen. In 1929, directly after the share trading system smashed, Costello advised Luciano that he needed to progress Whalen $30,000 so that Whalen could cover the edge calls from his stockbroker.

"What might I be able to do?" Costello told Luciano. "I needed to offer it to him. We possess him."
Indeed, even after all the robust joining installments they needed to dole out, there was still about $4 million in yearly benefits from all their rackets, to be part similarly amongst Costello, Luciano, Lansky, and Siegel. It was amid this period that Luciano persuaded Costello (a name of Irish better than average) that he ought to change his name from Castiglia. Luciano later said, "When we got up into our ears in New York legislative issues, it didn't hurt us at all that we had an Italian person with a name like Costello."