Mobster Meyer Lansky was once quoted as saying that he kept his business in his hat. It must have been some hat. Or maybe not. A new cinematic character study, Lansky, was just released. As the author ...

He was a man who loved Israel, but not enough to behave in it. There was this time a few years back when Meyer Lansky, living in Florida, decided that a prosecutor’s questions could best be answered ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his 80 years, Meyer Lansky worked alongside the most notorious gangsters in American history. He spearheaded a worldwide ...

Meyer Lansky was saddled with the name Maier Suchowljansky when he was born in Grodno, Poland, sometime between 1898 and 1902. When Lansky got to the Lower East Side he made friends with Benjamin ...

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HAVANA – The heirs of Jewish mob legend Meyer Lansky want compensation for his nationalized hotel, the Riviera, the seaside home to one of the last casinos built in swinging Havana of the 1950s. U.S.

TAMPA — As a child, Gary Rapoport didn’t question why FBI agents regularly followed his grandfather Meyer Lansky. “We would go for a walk and could see across the street there were two guys,” he said.

The heirs of American organised crime legend Meyer Lansky want compensation for his nationalised hotel, the Riviera, the seaside home to one of the last casinos built in swinging Havana of the 1950s.