Meyer Lansky: The Banker Who Turned the Mob Into a Vegas Empire
Old Vegas Legends
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They say Meyer Lansky died worth $300 million. The FBI said it. The newspapers printed it. His own family believed it. But when the little man with the adding machine brain finally stopped breathing in nineteen eighty three, they found $57,000 in a Miami bank account and not much else. That's the final joke of the man who turned organized crime into a business, who invented the Las Vegas skim, who built an empire that stretched from Havana to Jerusalem. The most powerful gangster in America died broke. Or maybe that was just the greatest trick he ever pulled.
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He didn’t die broke.
Meyer Lansky: The Banker Who Turned the Mob Into a Vegas Empire
Old Vegas Legends
39,768 views
They say Meyer Lansky died worth $300 million. The FBI said it. The newspapers printed it. His own family believed it. But when the little man with the adding machine brain finally stopped breathing in nineteen eighty three, they found $57,000 in a Miami bank account and not much else. That's the final joke of the man who turned organized crime into a business, who invented the Las Vegas skim, who built an empire that stretched from Havana to Jerusalem. The most powerful gangster in America died broke. Or maybe that was just the greatest trick he ever pulled.