Meyer Lansky, born Maier Suchowljansky, was one of the most powerful U.S. organized crime figures of the twentieth century. Lansky extended the influence of organized crime into Cuba and after World War II financed the efforts that created the gambling...

Meyer Lansky loomed large in the American imagination both in his lifetime and afterward. Upon his death he was hailed as "the Mob's treasurer," "the Mafia's banker," and "the most influential Godfather...

Meyer Lansky Born: 1902 Died: January 15, 1983 The newspapers called Meyer Lansky “the Godfather’s Godfather” because he was considered to be the genius behind many of the mob’s profitable operations. Described as nearly...

Meyer Lansky (born Majer Suchowliński, July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983) was a Jewish- American gangster who, with Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the "National Crime Syndicate" in the United...

Some underworld figures whose stories will be told when Las Vegas opens its mob museum:Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.Pioneered Las Vegas as America's glamorous gambling capital, opening the lavish Flamingo hotel-casino in 1946. Rubbed out in 1947 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hollywood handsome, he was played by...

The man who was Meyer Lansky's driver and bodyguard during the Mafia's heyday in pre-Revolutionary Cuba died earlier this year, a curious footnote in a communist-run country whose past as a gambling mecca for vacationing Americans is all but forgotten.There was no story in the...

Long after most of its customers left the neighborhood to pursue the American Dream, the last matzo factory on the Lower East Side is moving out, saying goodbye to a part of town that was once home to hundreds of thousands of immigrant Jews.Streit's, a...

Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Carlo Gambino are long gone. Murder Inc. is out of business. Las Vegas has been so cleaned up it resembles Disneyland. And Havana? Forget about it since Castro took over. But Albert "Chinky" Facchiano, at 96, is still standing. And...