Did Meyer Lansky Control Mob?

[T Harry Evans]

Is it true that Meyer Lansky controlled Mafia figures such as Santos Trafficante Johnny Rosselli and Carlos Marcello?

[Kenneth Kapel]

According to Gus Russo author of "Supermob" & Dan Moldea author of "Dark Victory"Ronald Reagen, MCA, & the Mob",the Chicago outfit is the strongest criminal(non-govermental) in the United States. Russo & Moldea in regard to the JFK & RFK assassinations are useless when it comes to the truth. In regard to the Chicago mob I beleive that are very close to the truth, at least in IMO, for whatever its worth. Henry Crown the late Chicago billionaire was reputed to be the chief money man for the Chicago outfit, along with Conrad Hilton, at least according to James Ragen the murdered boss man of the Continental Press, the race wire service that was at war with the Chicago mobs Trans-America. In the movie "Bugsy", it's the Chicago mobs wire service that Siegel was selling on the West Coast. Ragen told this story , about Crown & Hilton,to FBI chief Hoover & Attorney General Clark in 1946, three weeks later Ragen was murdered. Henry Crown was the lagest stockholder of military-industrial giant General Dynamics in 1963, and GM was well represented on the Warren Counsel by attorneys Albert Jenner and Muarice T. Moore. Lester Crown, son of the late Henry, was & is a big Obama money man.

[Magda Hassan]

I don't know for sure and this is far from my area of interest but I did recently see a documentary, whose name escapes me, but it was part of a series on the mafia. One of the programmes was about Lansky. He was undoubtedly involved in the money side of things but all of his money he put into a Cuban casino. He lost that with the arrival of Fidel. It is unlikely he had any more money as he lived in very humble circumstances since that time even unable to afforded treatment for his son's health condition. He also had nothing to leave his family when he died. If you were going to use your power and shake down anyone for $ it would be to do something for your kid. He didn't and couldn't.

[Tracy Riddle]

Lansky was the mob's CFO, was heavily involved in the Vegas casinos, and he seems to have had a lot of dirt on Hoover.
I'm in the middle of reading this book, which has a lot on him:

http://www.amazon.com/Money-Power-Making...352&sr=1-2

[Albert Doyle]

Lansky's true role during the time was as overseer of the money laundering going on between the mob and CIA in offshore banks. He was the off to the side invisible power broker who handled the money end which gave him important power. His center of gravity was more in line with the Cuba, CIA, Miami, offshore banks nexus than those other mobsters. If you follow the money Lansky was at the top but more importantly he was closer to the political interests of the assassination's sponsors which made him unique in comparison to those other mob figures. He played a major role in the alliance CIA formed with the mob over Cuba which then branched into drug and rackets money laundering as the relationship expanded.

[Marlene Zenker]

Funny, I was just reading about Lansky in Walt Brown's chronology not 5 minutes ago. According to Brown, Lansky was the mob's accountant. "As a Jewish immigrant, he had no use whatsoever for the Nazis, and would take great pleasure in breaking up Nazi rallies in the U.S. with his fists, and he would also work for an organization called the Office of Naval Intelligence Operation Underworld--"in which the U.S. government recruited criminals to watch out for German infiltrators and submarine-borne saboteurs.""
"He helped arrange the release of Lucky Luciano to aid the war effort as well."

I wonder what else he was doing for ONI?

[Kenneth Kapel]

Gus Russo -Supermob page 195:

"The common misperception is that the mob's association with Las Vegas began with New York's mob boss Meyer Lansky Ben " Don't call me Bugsy",Siegel built his Flamingo Hotel-Casino in 1946. But the town's history is more a product of the macinations of Chicago's crime syndicates and dates back more than a decade earlier than Bugsy's desert adventure."

Published by Bloomsbury 2006 USA.

[Tracy Riddle]

According to Gus Russo author of "Supermob" & Dan Moldea author of "Dark Victory"Ronald Reagen, MCA, & the Mob",the Chicago out is the strongest criminal(non-govermental) in the United States. Russo & Moldea in regard to the JFK & RFK assassinations are useless when it comes to the truth. In regard to the Chicago mob I beleive that are very close to the truth, at least in IMO, for whatever its worth. Henry Crown the late Chicago billionaire was reputed to be the chief money man for the Chicago outfit, along with Conrad Hilton, at least according to James Ragen the murdered boss man of the Continental Press, the race wire service that was at war with the Chicago mobs Trans-America. In the movie "Bugsy", it's the Chicago mobs wire service that Siegel was selling on the West Coast. Ragen told this story , about Crown & Hilton,to FBI chief Hoover & Attorney General Clark in 1946, three weeks later Ragen was murdered. Henry Crown was the lagest stockholder of military-industrial giant General Dynamics in 1963, and GM was well represented on the Warren Counsel by attorneys Albert Jenner and Muarice T. Moore. Lester Crown, son of the late Henry, was & is a big Obama money man.

Buried in the footnotes of Russ Baker's Family of Secrets are a lot of interesting nuggets: "Many Americans came to the Philippines to make their fortune. One of them was Henry Crown, who would go on to be the controlling shareholder of the giant military contractor General Dynamics, and in effect the boss of Albert Jenner, the Warren Commission counsel who so ineffectively interrogated George de Mohrenschildt."