I have the Lansky biography "Little Man". One fascinating part is about the fact that he knew that an honest casino with good food would make more money than a crooked one because people would keep coming back.
LITTLE MAN, 1991, is a good, solid biography. It takes some criticism because the author, Robert Lacey, has written several biographies about royals, presidents, CEO's. It's a much better biography than MEYER LANSKY: MOGUL OF THE MOB. 1979, by Eisenberg, Landau & Dan - which is mostly fiction (and I believe it was inspired by the fake [but very lucrative] _autobiography_ of Lucky Luciano, titled "THE LAST TEMPTATION OF LUCKY LUCIANO. I own a copy but I'd never recommend anyone to buy a copy. It's been totally debunked as fake since just months after it was first published. WE ONLY KILL EACH OTHER: THE LIFE AND BAD TIMES OF BUGSY SIEGEL, 1967 [?] Dean Jennings is a really fantastic true crime, non-fiction book. It's only about 250 pages, I read every word in about 6 hours, then immediately started reading it from the very beginning, again.
This was fantastic. Really summed up the guy’s life. As a kid in Brooklyn (I’m 67 now), my Italian buddies…and I had a lot of them…would give a wink-wink and kind of brag about how tough the Italian mafia was. As a Jew, I would always bring up Lansky being the SMART one. (As it turns out, many early Jewish gangsters WERE brutal, including Murder Incorporated, who La Cosa Nostra often hired to do hits.) Little did I know about the final chapter in Lansky’s life, the myth being much bigger than the reality, until I watched this just now!
Meyer's step-son (Gussaroff) told me stories of growing up in NY and how Uncle Meyer had his knuckles hammered as a lesson for taking too much off the top of his daily runs. An effective lesson from the appearance of his hands.
Yeah. He had his knuckles smashed to grit and dust with a hammer BUT, decades later, he could still use his hands, rather than them swinging by his sides, at the end of his arms like joints of meat, with the pulverised bits of his hammered bones looking like the arthritic talons of a giant albatross, poking from the slabs of meat that were left of his hands. I recall that Lansky lacked the power to save his wives son from being killed over a relatively minor unpaid debt. The idea that old man Meyer, in Miami around 1981, secretly had a $300M criminal fortune hidden away was obviously a media fiction.
@@James-n2t4w you know much more than I do about all this part of history. I would like to add credibility to Richard's stories about Uncle Meyer. Did you ever know this name or involvement?
RUclips sucks. I can watch this on television without every fake violence scene being pixelated. Or over on Rumble. Not everyone is 5 years old. Off to a platform where I can see the documentary.
I love how you did the documentary. I didn’t see you pressing a viewpoint, just stated the facts and really gave a well balanced view (leaving the viewers to make whatever conclusions they deem fit). We don’t see stuffs like this enough lately hence I soundly commend you. Nice work! Splendid!!
@@KeWhite-u2j "People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" -- Richard Grenier, Washington Times 1993 (he attributed the concept to George Orwell but did not claim it was a direct quote) “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ― G.K. Chesterton
Meyer would not order the killing of his freind, but, I do not think he would have stopped it, since Bugsy had messed up many times and Meyer had saved him MANY times
Given that the real mob bosses,who had provided Siegal with the capital to build the Flamingo,wanted him dead,there was no way Lansky could have saved him.
@asensibleyoungman2978 yes it is. If you had it before the Volstead Act, had a prescription, or a certain pass from the government, you could possess or consume it.
@@fenian123 the broadcast wasn't blurred. it was blurred by the uploader of this video because youtube would have an issue with it. Then this channel would be in deep crap because you tube would quickly realise that this channel is basically all pirated content and would be in even worse trouble.
All the censorship is not the video makers. Fault fault, everyone is shell, shocked and scared of RUclips and there b. S censorship. RUclips is the problem here
RUclips or Reddit even censor the dick of Adam by Michelangelo's fresco at the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican. Americans are more prudish than the Catholic Church. They also censor female nipples on TV. But not men's! It's the same with cursing. They "beep" over words
@@sheilamacdougal4874 Oh the Silicon Valley Shakers... They are huddled around any comment of progressive liberal disenchantment... Ready to pounce on any and all who do not comply with The Beast.....
There is a couple of films about them or including them..sadly the biography ones of Lansky aren't that good. A real good one is Bugsy, which focuses more on Ben Siegel, but Lansky and Luciano play a big role in his life story. Also, Mobsters (1991) shows their rise to power. And then there are two Lansky movies, one w Richard Dreyfus and one with Harvey Keitel. Sadly, they both aren't great. Luciano has an Italian film made about him from 73.
Meyer Lansky threatened to kill Huntington Harford if Hartford didn't sell Lansky his resort. Lansky wanted Hartford's resort on Paradise Island and Hartford was forced to sell at a huge loss.
He was under indictment at times, brought in for questioning. Pretty sure he was NOT @Appalacian. The man covered himself very well. Big difference between Greed and Ambition.
Grandi video, complimenti, grandi storie veramente ben descritte. Certo dire che il gioco d'azzardo, che veniva gestito, da lui, era sempre "pulito" mi pare una esagerazione, non trasformava l'acqua in whiskey, neanche lui. Di certo non ne modifica la personalità.
Meyer retired in Miami Beach Florida. I know this for a fact. He used to bring my mother gifts at Christmas and other holidays. He was a gentleman. Everyone respected him. 💯. Thank you 💛 for this excellent documentary about him. He was really close friends with Lucky Luciano.
The kindly gentleman was just a front to fool people He was a diabolically evil criminal street thug😈. Clawing his way up the syndicate crime ladder. At everyone else's expense-!!! Also nonchalantly involved with the narcotics trade ( heroin ). Murder incorporated & other criminal syndicate activities. A genuine master mind @ book keeping & defrauding the government out of tax money.
@@Ira88881 that's someone who skims casinos and run with own gang as kid AND STOLE AND EXTORTED FROM SHOPS PUBS ROLL DRUNKS TAKE VALUABLES AND RUN LOL HOW WAS HE A THIEF A GANGSTER CAN I ASK AGE WHERE YOU FROM
Think it's obvious he was rich and had some influence for a certain period of time but lost it all in Cuba and the passing of time. After that he was respected but had no influence.
yeah who needed old Meyer waving those kinky pics of J Edgar around? that's one Jewish tradition which remains strong today.....looking at Diddy's and Epstein's operations.
My dad grew up with Meyer Lansky, he dated his sister for a few years. She wanted to marry him but he was going in the Navy and didn't think it would work. My dad became friends with all the guys who wound up as Murder Incorporated, which Ben Siegel also a member. Times came and went my dad stayed in touch with all those guys. So one day about 6 months before Siegel died my dad was sent out with a warning to pay attention and stop trying to be a star. The construction costs of the Flamingo were going up, lots of stuff was stolen. He said that some people think you are stealing from them too. Plus he was in the papers too much. He said, yeah that's what Meyer was hinting at last month. He said he had to get on the ball, but he didn't. They went out to dinner that night. My dad stayed a week for free and that was that.
I will use the line from usual suspects to describe Lansky: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist." Whether Meyer had millions when he died or not I think he was smart enough to keep his mob connections well hidden but just enough on the surface that every once in awhile the government would go fishing. This is why he was always smiling....
Lankski was in charge, stayed hidden behind the scenes. Lucky was his best and loyal friend. Had it planned since teenagers. Lankski always wanted to be godfather, Lucky helped him achieve this. ❤❤❤
My grandparents lived right next to Lanky family My dad and Meyer grew up together. They were friends for life. Meyer's sister began to date my dad. Meyer offered to pay, but my dad thought we were going to be in a war, he was in the Navy reserve. After the war Meyer and him stayed in touch and would go out for lunch. My dad went to his funeral and said Kaddish for him.
A truly excellent documentary excellently narrated by Dr. Hannibal Lector. It's nice to hear the truth once in a while. I can't imagine Sir Anthony lending his voice to anything less than less than something excellent. Is it really possible that Jack and Bobby didn't know where the family money came from?
He was "pulling strings from the shadows " in a Billion dollar underworld empire and died without leaving a dime for his family and crippled son ?. What a sad end.
If ROUTH had any real military experience he'd know the well-known and beloved "police call" in which you go out and pick up every bit of trash, not just cigarette butts but pieces of cigarette butts. So any Secret Service agent is probably going to have this experience or be influenced/trained by those that do. He didn't hide his damn gun barrel! And that's a lot bigger than a cigarette butt. Bet he didn't even read any of Harry McBride's books on sniping in WWI. If you're going to be a sniper you can't half-ass it.
This was hard for me to listen to. My grandpa was killed by Meyer Lansky because he would not pay protection medicine. They knocked out my grandpa and drove a truck over his head. My dad was jewish.
Read a biography on ML. Written by that British dude, I think. His finances were very murky. His whole life was cash money, no records. In my judgement he was a man who could GET money, but he didn't HAVE a lot of money. And of course he sunk every dollar into the Riviera in Havana- and lost it. FRom 1960 to 1983 his every movement and every communication was monitored by the FBI. What could he do? I think this doc is meant to dispel some of the myths surrounding all of organized crime. They don't have power because they are rich. They have power because people fear them. Who wants to get killed over a 10 thousand dollar building contract?
Bet Lansky didn't know Ruby well, with one from Chicago and the other New York. Ruby (Jacob Rubinstein) was a small time associate of organized crime figures and no mobster or murder-for-hire killer.
@phann860, gotcha. I just picked up a WW2 surplus M1, a Winchester no less, in fantastic condition for a military surplus. I think it’s been sitting in an armory in Africa for decades. Anyway, stoked to own it.
Once everything crashed in Havana. The government was upset and the elites wanted the money they lost! Lansky was unfortunately used by the Government until he had nothing left to give. He did good if you ask me. Lived like a king for some time, avoided doing any hard time in prison and was able to keep his mouth shut 🤫. As a mobster Lansky was a solid representation of that.
Agreed. Castro seized Meyer's fortune and he never recovered from that.. He was very wise and very disciplined too. He never did hard time, like you mentioned, and he was never whacked. Usually, those are the only 2 options for a mobster. According to certain sources, he only had $35,000 dollars to his name when he died. I guess he also owned a small percentage of some casinos in Las Vegas but who knows.
"The oldest of whom, Buddy, suffered from cerebral palsy, otherwhise life was good"... Honestly??? The same applies to me, so thank you for nothing... I bet the guy had all the funds necessary to provide good care for Buddy in all forms needed.
In 50s and 60s London there was a contingent of heavy Jewish gangsters. The most successful, a man who ran soho for decades was Jack Spot (or Jack Comer, real name Jacob Comatosed allegedly) a second generation Russian Jewish immigrant. His power was waning in the late 50s after his 1930-40s heyday following the battle of Cable Street where Spot and his gang attacked Mosley and a contingent of Blackshirt fascists marching through East London's Jewish quarter. Spot personally took on Mosley's bodyguard armed with an iron bar making him a hero of the Jewish onlookers. As he aged his control was covered by other gangsters like Billy Hill who organised a small gang, led by Frankie Frazer, who set upon Spot when he and his wife left their Mayfair apartment. Spot carried the scars on his face for the rest of his life, but got the message and retired.
hello from russia.... good movie... i was in his casino flamingo in las vegas..... when i was 8 years old we had one movie in russia .... once upon a time in america...... good movie about ben sigl and luky luciano ....
interesting documentary, but I have to point out, against what's said at 6:00, that the Eighteenth Amendment bans "the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation from the United States" of alcoholic beverages, NOT the consumption of alcohol.
I'm a Jew. I hate the romanticization of these criminals, especially the Jewish ones. But of course not JUST them. For instance, I also hate the veneration that Michael Franzese gets. My mother's father was a WWI veteran, well able and willing to use arms. But as a small store owner, he was forced to pay off these parasites, in fear for his family. He couldn't stand against them all by himself. But he couldn't rely on his fellow business owners and the neighborhood residents for support. Generally, they weren't inclined to resist predation with force. That's the disadvantage of a culture that doesn't embrace universal firearm use and ownership. If my grandfather's neighbors had been armed and willing, they could have presented a united front with him against these predators. Louis L'Amour made it a point to explode the TV and movie myth of western settlers being terrorized by outlaw gangs. According to him, the same inclinations that motivated these people to seek new territories, also made them prefer settling their difficulties themselves, rather than relying on government assistance. A significant number of them were Civil War veterans, and no strangers to weapons and their use.
That was fantastic. Thank you for rehabing this old show
I have the Lansky biography "Little Man". One fascinating part is about the fact that he knew that an honest casino with good food would make more money than a crooked one because people would keep coming back.
LITTLE MAN, 1991, is a good, solid biography. It takes some criticism because the author, Robert Lacey, has written several biographies about royals, presidents, CEO's. It's a much better biography than MEYER LANSKY: MOGUL OF THE MOB. 1979, by Eisenberg, Landau & Dan - which is mostly fiction (and I believe it was inspired by the fake [but very lucrative] _autobiography_ of Lucky Luciano, titled "THE LAST TEMPTATION OF LUCKY LUCIANO. I own a copy but I'd never recommend anyone to buy a copy. It's been totally debunked as fake since just months after it was first published.
WE ONLY KILL EACH OTHER: THE LIFE AND BAD TIMES OF BUGSY SIEGEL, 1967 [?] Dean Jennings is a really fantastic true crime, non-fiction book. It's only about 250 pages, I read every word in about 6 hours, then immediately started reading it from the very beginning, again.
I read it while in all places, the joint.
This was fantastic. Really summed up the guy’s life.
As a kid in Brooklyn (I’m 67 now), my Italian buddies…and I had a lot of them…would give a wink-wink and kind of brag about how tough the Italian mafia was.
As a Jew, I would always bring up Lansky being the SMART one. (As it turns out, many early Jewish gangsters WERE brutal, including Murder Incorporated, who La Cosa Nostra often hired to do hits.)
Little did I know about the final chapter in Lansky’s life, the myth being much bigger than the reality, until I watched this just now!
Meyer's step-son (Gussaroff) told me stories of growing up in NY and how Uncle Meyer had his knuckles hammered as a lesson for taking too much off the top of his daily runs. An effective lesson from the appearance of his hands.
Yeah. He had his knuckles smashed to grit and dust with a hammer BUT, decades later, he could still use his hands, rather than them swinging by his sides, at the end of his arms like joints of meat, with the pulverised bits of his hammered bones looking like the arthritic talons of a giant albatross, poking from the slabs of meat that were left of his hands.
I recall that Lansky lacked the power to save his wives son from being killed over a relatively minor unpaid debt.
The idea that old man Meyer, in Miami around 1981, secretly had a $300M criminal fortune hidden away was obviously a media fiction.
@@James-n2t4w you know much more than I do about all this part of history. I would like to add credibility to Richard's stories about Uncle Meyer. Did you ever know this name or involvement?
RUclips sucks. I can watch this on television without every fake violence scene being pixelated. Or over on Rumble. Not everyone is 5 years old. Off to a platform where I can see the documentary.
I love how you did the documentary. I didn’t see you pressing a viewpoint, just stated the facts and really gave a well balanced view (leaving the viewers to make whatever conclusions they deem fit). We don’t see stuffs like this enough lately hence I soundly commend you. Nice work! Splendid!!
same recycled sht
why censor the black white gun scenes?
RUclips censorship sux
DAMN GOOD QUESTION.DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE TO DO THAT
One must agree!🤔
WHY WHY WHY??🧐🧐
What a great documentary!
They ripped it off someone else’s channel.
😮😮😮
@@transitbreeze oh, well whoever made it, it was brilliant
@@joshkeeling1382 it’s stolen from biography channel.
@@transitbreeze mafias greatest hits is on numerous channels not only one
They the government couldn't leave him alone. Great presentation thanks for sharing.
He's not Italian
He's...😮
38:45 don't they always
Crazy how we celebrate certain criminals in todays culture yet condemn everyday criminals who kill and sell illicit narcotics etc.
Same way you celebrate the military and your country
@@KeWhite-u2j
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf"
-- Richard Grenier, Washington Times 1993 (he attributed the concept to George Orwell but did not claim it was a direct quote)
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton
@@KeWhite-u2j Are you using "you" in a colloquial sense? Or are you just straw manning the holy FK out of OP?
He was using the same rhetorical device you did in your question: isn't it crazy how WE..' btw we all think you are a spastic
Cause of the color.
Enjoyed it, worth the watch!
Enjoyed. GJ
Meyer would not order the killing of his freind, but, I do not think he would have stopped it, since Bugsy had messed up many times and Meyer had saved him MANY times
Given that the real mob bosses,who had provided Siegal with the capital to build the Flamingo,wanted him dead,there was no way Lansky could have saved him.
Prohibition was a ban on the production and distribution of alcohol, not possession or consumption.
Same thing really. Without one you can't have the other.
@@asensibleyoungman2978 exactly !
@asensibleyoungman2978 yes it is. If you had it before the Volstead Act, had a prescription, or a certain pass from the government, you could possess or consume it.
Not really. depended on who you paid off
@@lawrencehansen8731 Good point. The more things change, the more they remain the same
No mention of Arnold Rothstein? He taught Lansky and Luciano everything they knew.
He mentions it in the Costello episode. Maybe he just doesn't want to be repetitive.
You are not allowed to mention that Jews controlled the American mafia.
Jew thugs 🤷🏾♂️
There's a whole episode about Rothstein on this same channel. 👍🏻
stop blurring it out, are we children?
Friggin RUclips thinks we all are. I pay for this shit and they still censor it.
@@Thepotatothatchokedamber That was the result of a TV broadcast, not YT
@@fenian123 the broadcast wasn't blurred. it was blurred by the uploader of this video because youtube would have an issue with it. Then this channel would be in deep crap because you tube would quickly realise that this channel is basically all pirated content and would be in even worse trouble.
You probably are
It's irrelevant. YT are children, and its they who ultimately have the last say in whether we see this video or not.
All the censorship is not the video makers.
Fault fault, everyone is shell, shocked and scared of RUclips and there b. S censorship. RUclips is the problem here
It's an election year. Silicon Valley closes rank. Next year they'll apologise.
RUclips or Reddit even censor the dick of Adam by Michelangelo's fresco at the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican.
Americans are more prudish than the Catholic Church.
They also censor female nipples on TV. But not men's!
It's the same with cursing. They "beep" over words
@@sheilamacdougal4874 Oh the Silicon Valley Shakers... They are huddled around any comment of progressive liberal disenchantment... Ready to pounce on any and all who do not comply with The Beast.....
Clearly the ppl who put this documentary did not really do your homework. Meyer Lansky was a class act.
He was a criminal. No class.
There needs to be a movie about Lansky and Lucky.
Gotta protect the image of joos
Boardwalk Empire...try watching that if u haven't already
There is a couple of films about them or including them..sadly the biography ones of Lansky aren't that good. A real good one is Bugsy, which focuses more on Ben Siegel, but Lansky and Luciano play a big role in his life story. Also, Mobsters (1991) shows their rise to power. And then there are two Lansky movies, one w Richard Dreyfus and one with Harvey Keitel. Sadly, they both aren't great. Luciano has an Italian film made about him from 73.
This series is SO good! Thank you
Meyer Lansky threatened to kill Huntington Harford if Hartford didn't sell Lansky his resort. Lansky wanted Hartford's resort on Paradise Island and Hartford was forced to sell at a huge loss.
Well he stayed out of jail or avoided get shot he’s whole life. That’s a really good thing for a mobster.
He was under indictment at times, brought in for questioning. Pretty sure he was NOT @Appalacian. The man covered himself very well. Big difference between Greed and Ambition.
I was thinking the same thing!
Grandi video, complimenti, grandi storie veramente ben descritte. Certo dire che il gioco d'azzardo, che veniva gestito, da lui, era sempre "pulito" mi pare una esagerazione, non trasformava l'acqua in whiskey, neanche lui. Di certo non ne modifica la personalità.
Colin Tierney makes these docs so much better to watch
Couldn't agree more , you're right.
Meyer retired in Miami Beach Florida. I know this for a fact. He used to bring my mother gifts at Christmas and other holidays. He was a gentleman. Everyone respected him. 💯. Thank you 💛 for this excellent documentary about him. He was really close friends with Lucky Luciano.
The kindly gentleman was just a front to fool people He was a diabolically evil criminal street thug😈. Clawing his way up the syndicate crime ladder. At everyone else's expense-!!! Also nonchalantly involved with the narcotics trade ( heroin ). Murder incorporated & other criminal syndicate activities. A genuine master mind @ book keeping & defrauding the government out of tax money.
He wasn't a gentleman. He was a murderer and a thief.
@@sinatra222 EXACTLY!!!
@@sinatra222 How was he a thief?
@@Ira88881 that's someone who skims casinos and run with own gang as kid AND STOLE AND EXTORTED FROM SHOPS PUBS ROLL DRUNKS TAKE VALUABLES AND RUN LOL HOW WAS HE A THIEF A GANGSTER CAN I ASK AGE WHERE YOU FROM
They really had an agenda with this documentary. I am buying it!!
Finally! Been waiting for this one!
Think it's obvious he was rich and had some influence for a certain period of time but lost it all in Cuba and the passing of time. After that he was respected but had no influence.
All the evidence indicates that you are right. A pity the US government still believed he was Mr.Big in the mob-something he never was.
Smartest gangster of all time. Got italians to do his dirty work. Governememt wouldnt even look his way for the longest time.
yeah who needed old Meyer waving those kinky pics of J Edgar around? that's one Jewish tradition which remains strong today.....looking at Diddy's and Epstein's operations.
They got together when they could benefit from each other. Just business.
My dad grew up with Meyer Lansky, he dated his sister for a few years. She wanted to marry him but he was going in the Navy and didn't think it would work. My dad became friends with all the guys who wound up as Murder Incorporated, which Ben Siegel also a member.
Times came and went my dad stayed in touch with all those guys. So one day about 6 months before Siegel died my dad was sent out with a warning to pay attention and stop trying to be a star. The construction costs of the Flamingo were going up, lots of stuff was stolen. He said that some people think you are stealing from them too. Plus he was in the papers too much.
He said, yeah that's what Meyer was hinting at last month. He said he had to get on the ball, but he didn't.
They went out to dinner that night. My dad stayed a week for free and that was that.
He was a good/bad guy. ❤ RIP Meyer Lansky
I will use the line from usual suspects to describe Lansky: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist." Whether Meyer had millions when he died or not I think he was smart enough to keep his mob connections well hidden but just enough on the surface that every once in awhile the government would go fishing. This is why he was always smiling....
i had no idea lansky lived until 1983.
What a sweetheart of a man ! Product of his environment! Came from the streets fought his way out !
Or a murderous jew who worked within a criminal organisation that murdered, tortured and extorted thousands.
Why are we blocking out scenes in 1930s movies that would get a ‘G’rating today? Asking for a friend.
Copyright laws...
Imagine living in a world where truth is sacrificed incase someone's feelings might be hurt.
Lankski was in charge, stayed hidden behind the scenes. Lucky was his best and loyal friend. Had it planned since teenagers. Lankski always wanted to be godfather, Lucky helped him achieve this. ❤❤❤
Jeez... Lansky never got a break even in old age
He lived
Why is there no footage of his testimony at Kefauver hearings? Does it exist?
Whst exactly was being censored during Marenzanno's hit? Is this suggesting there's actual footage?
My grandparents lived right next to Lanky family My dad and Meyer grew up together. They were friends for life. Meyer's sister began to date my dad. Meyer offered to pay, but my dad thought we were going to be in a war, he was in the Navy reserve.
After the war Meyer and him stayed in touch and would go out for lunch. My dad went to his funeral and said Kaddish for him.
A truly excellent documentary excellently narrated by Dr. Hannibal Lector. It's nice to hear the truth once in a while. I can't imagine Sir Anthony lending his voice to anything less than less than something excellent. Is it really possible that Jack and Bobby didn't know where the family money came from?
No.
Erm, this wasn't narrated by Anthony Hopkins. 🤔🤷🏻♀️
He was "pulling strings from the shadows " in a Billion dollar underworld empire and died without leaving a dime for his family and crippled son ?. What a sad end.
@@frankmilitary4121
No Shtt, it's Always Best To Keep Your Mouth Shut about Any Money you have,
Letting Anybody know You Have Money Isn't Smart, 👍🏻
ROUTH needs to be kept off the streets for many years
If ROUTH had any real military experience he'd know the well-known and beloved "police call" in which you go out and pick up every bit of trash, not just cigarette butts but pieces of cigarette butts. So any Secret Service agent is probably going to have this experience or be influenced/trained by those that do. He didn't hide his damn gun barrel! And that's a lot bigger than a cigarette butt. Bet he didn't even read any of Harry McBride's books on sniping in WWI. If you're going to be a sniper you can't half-ass it.
He the accounting of the New York 5 crime family
I didn't expect his voice to be so deep
Really good!! Thanks so much 😊
They always glamorize these crims, they end up in jail, dead, or broke or hanging on
Newsflash….everyone ends up dead
Meyer ended up rich living to old age, what are you on about?
📌 Meyer Lansky
Bugsy Siegel
Lucky Luciano
Lansky had probably one of the five most valuable collections of Hummel figurines in North America.
Great docu, but WTF is all this blurring ...
This is the business we have chosen! I DIDN’t ASK who gave the order….because it had nothing to do with business!
Great video
This was hard for me to listen to. My grandpa was killed by Meyer Lansky because he would not pay protection medicine. They knocked out my grandpa and drove a truck over his head. My dad was jewish.
Wait, for real??
Wow. I wouldn’t have listened to it if I were in your shoes, he was a nobody at the end of the day
An acquaintenance of mine, "J", her grandfather was involved with lansky's crew running whisky. They killed him.
Good documentary, 👍
Why blurring some parts
Because he was a bloody mess?
What a great documentary
Wonderful documentary and balanced. Well done.....🙂
Read a biography on ML. Written by that British dude, I think. His finances were very murky. His whole life was cash money, no records. In my judgement he was a man who could GET money, but he didn't HAVE a lot of money. And of course he sunk every dollar into the Riviera in Havana- and lost it. FRom 1960 to 1983 his every movement and every communication was monitored by the FBI. What could he do?
I think this doc is meant to dispel some of the myths surrounding all of organized crime. They don't have power because they are rich. They have power because people fear them.
Who wants to get killed over a 10 thousand dollar building contract?
*judgment*
Last chance: check if he knew Jack Ruby.
Bet Lansky didn't know Ruby well, with one from Chicago and the other New York. Ruby (Jacob Rubinstein) was a small time associate of organized crime figures and no mobster or murder-for-hire killer.
@@mnoliberal7335 Well the one thing we do know for certain is that he *was* a killer.
@@sheilamacdougal4874 and very Jewish.
Jack Rubenstein
Crazy amount of censorship
Back then, people called you Bugsy because you had bugs in your head. Simply put, you are crazy.
I've always liked Meyer - my favorite mobster
Was Bugsy shot with an M1 carbine? I thought that’s what it looked like in the images here. Don’t know if anyone knows for sure.
Certainly looked like an M1 carbine, at a range of a few yards the .30 would do the job. Probably not a detail that would be noted.
@phann860, gotcha. I just picked up a WW2 surplus M1, a Winchester no less, in fantastic condition for a military surplus. I think it’s been sitting in an armory in Africa for decades. Anyway, stoked to own it.
From what I have read, yes, it was a 30 caliber carbine.
Once everything crashed in Havana. The government was upset and the elites wanted the money they lost! Lansky was unfortunately used by the Government until he had nothing left to give. He did good if you ask me. Lived like a king for some time, avoided doing any hard time in prison and was able to keep his mouth shut 🤫. As a mobster Lansky was a solid representation of that.
Agreed. Castro seized Meyer's fortune and he never recovered from that.. He was very wise and very disciplined too. He never did hard time, like you mentioned, and he was never whacked. Usually, those are the only 2 options for a mobster. According to certain sources, he only had $35,000 dollars to his name when he died. I guess he also owned a small percentage of some casinos in Las Vegas but who knows.
" Our losses in Cuba were enormous . " Meyer Lansky quote
Somehow Hollywood won’t touch this one. I wonder why?
too fascinated with the possibility of remaking Fiddler On The Roof.
They made movie about him. Do some research idiot
These people are finally bold enough to speak on Meyer
Bold about what-???🤔
@@asullivan4047Being a criminal Jew.
I really like this series but I think the music could be like half the volume like really cut down in volume.
The untouchable
REALLY?!? Blurring out movie clips? RUclips rules are getting ridiculous 🤦🏻♂️🤯🤦🏻♂️
Why would you blur out scenes?
The screens are blurred for effect and because the actor probably didn’t look like Lansky.
Why are you blurring out RECREATIONS.
Good documentary but completely ruined by all the over production of music and cheesy editing.
"The oldest of whom, Buddy, suffered from cerebral palsy, otherwhise life was good"... Honestly??? The same applies to me, so thank you for nothing... I bet the guy had all the funds necessary to provide good care for Buddy in all forms needed.
I looove Lansky' character in Boardwalk Empire
In 50s and 60s London there was a contingent of heavy Jewish gangsters.
The most successful, a man who ran soho for decades was Jack Spot (or Jack Comer, real name Jacob Comatosed allegedly)
a second generation Russian Jewish immigrant.
His power was waning in the late 50s after his 1930-40s heyday following the battle of Cable Street where Spot and his gang attacked Mosley and a contingent of Blackshirt fascists marching through East London's Jewish quarter.
Spot personally took on Mosley's bodyguard armed with an iron bar making him a hero of the Jewish onlookers.
As he aged his control was covered by other gangsters like Billy Hill who organised a small gang, led by Frankie Frazer, who set upon Spot when he and his wife left their Mayfair apartment.
Spot carried the scars on his face for the rest of his life, but got the message and retired.
hello from russia.... good movie... i was in his casino flamingo in las vegas..... when i was 8 years old we had one movie in russia .... once upon a time in america...... good movie about ben sigl and luky luciano ....
interesting documentary, but I have to point out, against what's said at 6:00, that the Eighteenth Amendment bans "the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation from the United States" of alcoholic beverages, NOT the consumption of alcohol.
Meyer Lansky, Was Very Smart for That Time, These 2 Guy's Know Nothing about Meyer Lansky 👍🏻
I'm a Jew. I hate the romanticization of these criminals, especially the Jewish ones.
But of course not JUST them. For instance, I also hate the veneration that Michael Franzese gets.
My mother's father was a WWI veteran, well able and willing to use arms. But as a small store owner, he was forced to pay off these parasites, in fear for his family.
He couldn't stand against them all by himself. But he couldn't rely on his fellow business owners and the neighborhood residents for support. Generally, they weren't inclined to resist predation with force.
That's the disadvantage of a culture that doesn't embrace universal firearm use and ownership. If my grandfather's neighbors had been armed and willing, they could have presented a united front with him against these predators.
Louis L'Amour made it a point to explode the TV and movie myth of western settlers being terrorized by outlaw gangs. According to him, the same inclinations that motivated these people to seek new territories, also made them prefer settling their difficulties themselves, rather than relying on government assistance.
A significant number of them were Civil War veterans, and no strangers to weapons and their use.
yes, since Rembrandt s time, there have been Militia, Watchmen, Guardians of Peace..a piece of what?..lol
Look into what Lansky did regarding the Nazis in the US (yes, they were in the US then, too) and you may have a bit of a re-think.
Look at what happened to the James/Younger gang when they tried to rob Northfield Minnesota's bank.
@@alexcarter8807Free palestine BlTCH
Wasn't the Hyman Roth character (The Godfather Part II) based on Meyer Lansky?
I always thought that. But comment below says Moe Green. Does anyone know?
@@Lemma01 I've always heard that Moe Green was based on Bugsy Siegel.
Roth was based on Lansky and Moe Green on Siegel.
I take it you never watched the whole video? It's mentioned
Faz a dublagem da biografia dos gambinos .... , documentário fantástico que tem no RUclips
Much Love
These are so dramatic 😂. Love it
what's been presented here; M. Lansky was a decent man
v'good doco', well presented.
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I'm not suggesting Meyer to be the Devil.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist.
"...as American troops poured ashore..." - anybody else !!??
They couldn’t catch him so they try to be little his legacy … his wife does not look like she is hurting for money
thank you
ALEXANDERDORE, I BELIEVE YOU. YOU'RE NOT LYING. 😎
Meyer was good dude 😎
thank God they got Meyer Lansky out of Israel
They should've left him alone
It appears Lansky was a fantastic Strategist !
Only better known as Bugsy in the media and Hollywood, I would dare any man to call him that to his face. Such disrespect.
No disrespect to a low life street thug 😈 at all
😂😂😂 OK al capone relax
Bugsy? Really?
@handyMan657 - that rang a bell when the doc referred to the Bugs & Meyer Gang early on
STOP BLURRING IMAGES. MAKES YOUR PRESENTATION WORTHLESS.
@@NeilAnderson-nr7zc no excuse
Chill, RUclips is the one blurring it, not the doc maker.
@@WhitestRob mind yours
Voilà la raison de l’embargo de cuba🤷♀️
39:40 - That's his dog Bruzzer. My dog @CaliforniaShark sleeps in Bruzzer's old dog bed.
Oh my God! They're shooting all those blurred images!
Either show the scene or don’t