"The documents left no doubt that the man was a crook, that he had made
his living on the wrong side of the law, that he knowingly consorted with
men of violence -- that he was a gangster. But here was no Satan. Meyer
Lansky had not dealt in drugs -- or prostitution or loan-sharking or stolen
property. He had not been a director of Murder, Inc., killing or ordering
hits to contract. He was not the head of a shadowy underworld corporation,
laundering money and infiltrating legitimate business. It was remarkable,
in fact, looking at the evidence, what Meyer Lansky had NOT done. There was
nothing here to sustain the notion of Lansky as king of all evil, the brains,
the secret mover, the inspirer and controller of American organized crime --
the man whom I had set out to write a book about." (p.442)
ISBN 0-7126-2426-0
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