Meyer lansky

Meyer Lansky 1902-1983 | Mafia crime, Mafia gangster, Mafia

Meyer Lansky, gambler and mob organizer of the Havana boom, leaving Rivieria Hotel casino with girl and satchel reported to have contained $200, 000 from cashier's office. (LIFE Magazine photo, Feb. 1958.) Original caption: 11/7/72-MIAMI, FLA: Meyer Lansky, the reputed financial brain of the underworld's gambling empire, struggles to get into his attorney's car after being freed on bonds totaling $250,000, a little more than nine hours after landing in Miami from South America. (UPI)-ps/PKS…

Meyer Lansky. One of the few to go out a free man, even though he was a Baaad Man

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Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania, November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962), was an Italian-born American mobster and crime lord. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of the first Commission and also helped create the Five Families, which is the five mafia families in New York City that ruled organized crime in North America with an iron fist for over sixty years. He was for many years, the boss of the modern…

He was longtime associate of labor racketeer Louis Buchalter. He was one of the closest associates of Meyer Lansky, and assisted Meyer and his brother Jake Lansky in operating the Mob's Hallandale Florida casinos, including the plush "rug joint" the Colonial Inn.

Meyer Lansky, one of the great Jewish mobsters, ran gambling in much of the United States and helped build the National Crime Syndicate that ran organized crime in the 1930s and ‘40s. He was known as the “Mob’s accountant,” and he ranks as one of the most powerful gangsters in history. Lansky, a Jewish immigrant,...