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Meyer Lansky. Meyer Lansky, Mogul of the Mob Meyer Lansky grew up in a poor Jewish,
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... One runty boy, Meyer Lansky, refused to pay, so he and Luciano fought. ... His best friend
and business partner, Meyer Lansky, happened to be Jewish. ...
... One runty boy, Meyer Lansky, refused to pay, so he and Luciano fought. ... His best friend
and business partner, Meyer Lansky, happened to be Jewish. ...
... One runty boy, Meyer Lansky, refused to pay, so he and Luciano fought. ... His best friend
and business partner, Meyer Lansky, happened to be Jewish. ...
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Meyer Lansky, Mogul of the Mob
Meyer Lansky grew up in a poor Jewish, immigrant household. Each week the family would scrimp and save to have the Sabbath meal, known as cholent. Each Friday night, young Lansky would take the meal to the bakery with a nickel to pay for the privilege of cooking the cholent. Each Friday night, Lansky would also walk past corner crap games. One week, Lansky, fascinated by the amount of money people were throwing around, bet his cholent nickel. Lansky was sure he would win and bring home much more money for his family. "I handed the money over to the banker, sure I was going to win and to my dismay, I lost it!" Lansky recalled later.
Lansky promised himself he would never let his family down again and he would be a winner and beat them all. Lansky began to study the games and looked for the secret to win. Finally he figured it out, and began to win. He played the games for weeks all over the Lower East Side, amassing a small fortune that he kept under his mattress.
In a few years, Lansky became a "shtarke," or a person who will commit violence for a price. It is with this job that Lansky's name first shows up on the criminal record books. At sixteen he was charged with felonious assault, but the charges were dismissed. Later he was arrested for attempting to be a pimp. He pleaded guilty to this and was fined two dollars.
Lansky was walking home one day when he was approached by a group of Sicilian boys, led by Salvatore Luciano, later known as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano. Luciano demanded Lansky pay tribute to his gang. Lansky refused and proved he was a dangerous force. It was then that Luciano and Lansky reached an understanding that never left the two.
Between 1914 and 1920, Lansky formed his gang. Five boys joined Meyer Lansky in an attempt to fight off the Irish and Italian gangs. Later Benny Siegel, AKA Bugsy, joined the group, and he and Lansky became closer than brothers. The gang...
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