* A 1999 made-for-TV movie called Lansky was released starring Richard Dreyfuss as Lansky, Eric Roberts as Bugsy Siegel, and Anthony LaPaglia as Lucky Luciano.

* In the 1999 film Lansky, Maranzano is portrayed by Ron Gilbert.

* Lansky ( 1999 )

* Adonis is portrayed in the 1984 film Gangster Wars by James Percell, the 1991 film Bugsy by Lewis Van Bergen and in the 1999 television movie Lansky both by Casey McFadden and Sal Landi.

* 1902 – Meyer Lansky, Russian-American gangster ( d. 1983 )

* Meyer Lansky ( 1902 – 1983 ), Jewish gangster ; financial wizard of the National Crime Syndicate

Meyer Lansky ( born Meyer Suchowljansky ; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983 ), known as the " Mob's Accountant ," was a Russian-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles " Lucky " Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the " National Crime Syndicate " in the United States.

* Meyer Lansky – Luciano's right-hand man in the National Crime Syndicate, who helped form Murder, Inc.

* Meyer Lansky ( 1902 – 1983 ), central figure in the Jewish Mafia and highly influential figure in the Italian Mafia

As a representative for his associates Meyer Lansky and Charlie Luciano, Siegel is in California to muscle control of betting parlors away from Los Angeles gangster Jack Dragna.

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

However, Gambino had his own mind, and secretly aligned himself with Luciano, Costello and Lansky against Genovese.

Soon afterward, Costello, Luciano, and Lansky met face to face in Italy.

Sinatra would later testify about this in court, but announced that he didn't know any Carlo Gambino, but it got to a point where he had to explain why he was attending the Havana Conference in Cuba in 1946, showing up with $ 2, 000, 000 in a silver suitcase and a picture that showed Sinatra, Charles " Lucky " Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, and Carlo Gambino having a drink by a pool.

It was during this time Luciano met Jewish teenager Meyer Lansky, his future business partner.

However, Meyer Lansky persuaded Luciano to keep the practice, arguing that young people needed rituals to promote obedience to the family.

However, Lansky was a top advisor to Luciano and Siegel a trusted associate.

Knowing that the Cosa Nostra controlled the waterfront, the Navy contacted Meyer Lansky about a deal with Luciano.

For being the Mafia hegemon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino, and Vito Genovese, all of whom he led, Luciano is considered by many to have been the most powerful American Mafia boss of all time.

After World War II, Lansky associate Lucky Luciano was paroled from prison on the condition that he permanently return to Sicily.

Maranzano did not act quickly enough, though: by the time he hired Mad Dog Coll to murder Luciano and Genovese, Luciano, aided by Meyer Lansky, had already found out about Maranzano's plans.

Luciano arranged for Samuel " Red " Levine and three other gangsters provided by Lansky to go to Maranzano's offices on September 10, 1931, posing as accountants / tax men.

Rothstein became a mentor to Costello, Luciano, Lansky and Siegel while they conducted bootlegging business with Bronx beer baron Schultz.

Costello kept close associates Luciano, Lansky and Siegel involved in most of his gambling rackets, which included punch cards, slot machines, bookmaking and floating casinos.

In May 1929, Costello, Luciano, Torrio, Lansky, and Atlantic City / South Jersey crime boss, Enoch " Nucky " Johnson hosted a crime convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Costello, Luciano, Seigel and Lansky decided to end the Castellammarese War, and secretly planned to eliminate one " Mustache Pete " immediately, then bide their time and kill the other one.

Hired by Lansky and Luciano, the shooters allegedly included Schultz gang lieutenant, Abraham " Bo " Weinberg and Murder, Inc. gunman, Samuel " Red " Levine.

Luciano attempted to rule the crime family from prison with the help of Costello and Lansky, but found it too difficult.

On May 2, 1957, Vito Genovese ordered Gigante to murder Genovese family Boss Frank Costello, a close friend of Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky and one of the best-known underworld figures in the United States.

Stanley Jordan was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he received a BA in digital music composition from Princeton University in 1981, studying under computer-music composers Paul Lansky and Milton Babbitt.

When Anastasia confronted Lansky, he was furious, and seemingly threw his support to the Genovese-Gambino alliance.

He was, along with his associate Meyer Lansky, instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.

Lansky was already established as a major investor in Cuban gambling and hotel projects.

Lansky was born Meyer Suchowljansky in Grodno ( then in Russia, now in Belarus ), to a Jewish family who experienced pogroms.

Lansky was instrumental in Luciano's rise to power by organizing the 1931 murder of Mafia powerhouse Salvatore Maranzano.

Lansky was the brother of Jacob " Jake " Lansky, who in 1959 was the manager of the Nacional Hotel in Havana, Cuba.

After Al Capone's 1931 conviction for tax evasion and prostitution, Lansky saw that he too was vulnerable to a similar prosecution.

During World War II, Lansky was also instrumental in helping the Office of Naval Intelligence's Operation Underworld, in which the government recruited criminals to watch out for German infiltrators and submarine-borne saboteurs.

It is widely believed that Lansky himself was compelled to give the final okay on eliminating Siegel due to his long relationship with Siegel and his stature in the family.

Although his role was considerably more restrained than in previous years, Lansky is believed to have both advised and aided Chicago boss Tony Accardo in initially establishing his hold.

Batista's closest friend in the Mafia was Lansky.

During a stay at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York in the late 1940s, it was mutually agreed upon that, in exchange for kickbacks, Batista would offer Lansky and the Mafia control of Havana ’ s racetracks and casinos.

His take from the Lansky casinos, his prized Habana Riviera, the Nacional, the Montmartre Club and others, was said to be 30 percent.

On that New Year's Eve of 1958, while Batista was preparing to flee to the Dominican Republic and then on to Spain ( where he died in exile in 1973 ), Lansky was celebrating the $ 3 million he made in the first year of operations at his 440-room, $ 18 million palace, the Habana Riviera.