| Sidney Korshak | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Herzl Elementary School |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison DePaul University College of Law |
List of Jewish American mobstersNameLifeArnold "The Brain" Rothstein1882–1928Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer1902–1935Moe Sedway1894–1952Irving, Meyer and William Shapiro1904–1931 (Irving) 1908–1931 (Meyer) 1911–1934 (William)63 more rows
On paper, Lansky was worth almost nothing. At the time, the FBI believed he left behind over $300 million in hidden bank accounts, but they never found any money. This would be equivalent to $668 million in 2020.
It's a BOATS (Based On A True Story) movie in which Harvey Keitel plays Meyer Lansky, a real-life mobster who helped form the notorious National Crime Syndicate and established hugely successful casino-gambling operations.
Mafiyah YisrelitThe Israeli mafia (Hebrew: מאפיה ישראלית, romanized: Mafiyah Yisrelit, or ארגוני פשע בישראל, Irguni pesha bəYisrael, "organized crime in Israel") are the organized crime groups operating in Israel or consisting of Israeli members.
mogul Meyer Lansky1. Hyman Roth is based on real casino mogul Meyer Lansky. Hyman Roth, played in The Godfather: Part II by actor Lee Strasberg, was based on real-life mobster Meyer Lansky. Lansky is widely credited for coming up with some of the key innovations upon which the casino and gambling industry is built today.
David Stone is a cover name for a man born into a military family with a history of combat service going back to Waterloo. Stone, a military officer himself, has worked with federal intelligence agencies and state-level law enforcement units in North America, Central America, and South East Asia.
In the late evening of June 20, 1947, Siegel was killed in his palatial Beverly Hills home, brought down by a fusillade of bullets fired through his living-room window. At almost the same moment, three of Lansky's henchmen walked into the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and declared that they were taking over.
Federal authorities claimed the mobster still had hidden wealth to the tune of $300 million, but Lansky himself, the man who built and sold casinos like chess pieces, said he was nearly broke. At the time of his death, he had less than $35,000 in his bank account.
Rockaway gives us the stories of two men rather than the story of one: the other guy is a broke journalist named David Stone, whom Lansky has sort-of commissioned to write a book on him, to be published after his death.
Lebanese organized crime is active in the country of Lebanon itself, as well as in countries and areas with a large Arab community, most notably United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and in the Triple Frontier in South America.
Germany is probably not the first country one would think of in terms of organized crime. Certainly it has no Mafia, Cosa Nostra or Yakuza of its own. Still, in recent years organized crime has come to be considered one of Germany's major problems.
Today, the American Mafia cooperates in various criminal activities with Italian organized crime groups, such as the Sicilian Mafia, the Camorra of Campania and the 'Ndrangheta of Calabria.