Heirs to notorious gangster seek to be compensated by Cuba
Heirs to notorious gangster seek to be compensated by Cuba
by: Emile Schepers
January 11 2016
Meyer Lansky, born in Poland in 1902 as Meier Suchowlanski, was a close associate of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, and others of the worst 20th-century gangsters. He was one of organized crime's chief experts on running gambling casinos and money laundering, and so adept at it that he was sometimes called "the Mob's accountant." He died unrepentant at age 80 in 1983 after serving very little jail time.
Now one of his heirs is trying to cash in on the process of normalization between the United States and socialist Cuba.
Lansky had his fingerprints on Mafia activities in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas, where he and Siegel had been two of the "leading lights" in establishing Mafia control of gambling casinos. He also developed ties to the U.S. government. During World War II, if his claims are accurate, he and Luciano helped the U.S. military to fight against Axis agents who were threatening U.S. shipping. Lansky's working relationship with Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista, was most profitable for him and his associates, and for Batista and his family as well.
In December of 1946, Lansky organized a star-studded meeting of the most notorious and violent Mafia dons from both the Italian Cosa Nostra and the Jewish "mob" in the United States, including Luciano, Santo Trafficante, Frank Costello, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, Carlos Marcello, Sam Giancana, Tony Accardo, Joe Bonano and others. All the major Mafia families were represented. The venue was the Hotel Nacional in Havana.
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with all the mob bosses cutting up the cake had some basis in reality -
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