Did Lucky Luciano ever get his green card or was he illegal when he was deported?

Question

I understand he was not a U.S. citizen and was deported back to Italy after serving the jail sentence. He came on a boat at age 12 illegally. Did he ever become a legal resident? Just curious

Answer 1

No, he never got a green card. However, during WW2 he struck a secret deal with the U.S. government. If he promised there would be no dockworker strike in New York City's waterfront and if the dockworkers helped to protect the American ships in the harbor from German or Japanese saboteurs, he would be released from prison and would be able to return to Sicily, but he would not receive a green card and was not allowed to legally return to America.

Answer 2

It doesn't look like he ever did get his US citizenship.  I checked lots of sites and they all seemed to say the same thing.  See below:

Eventually, a deal was reached that included deportation — Luciano had never become a citizen — and he was sent to Italy in February 1946. He surfaced months later in sunny, pre-Castro Cuba. Lansky, Sinatra and other pals paid visits — so many, in fact, that the press took note, and in February 1947 the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics learned of Luciano's reappearance in the Americas. U.S. authorities claimed that he planned to headquarter a worldwide drug-smuggling operation in Cuba. Lucky was again packed off to Italy.

He died there, in homesick exile, on Jan. 26, 1962. Unlike so many of his predecessors and colleagues, he expired of natural causes, a coronary — an occupational hazard common to hard-driving executives. Or maybe he was just lucky. Italian and U.S. officials quickly announced they had been about to arrest him in a $150 million heroin ring. The fatal attack came at an airport, where he had gone to meet a Hollywood producer.