19 Burst results for "Meyer Lansky"
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"meyer lansky" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"From workhouse connect and AJ benza. Fame. He liked to be walked on a leash and played really dirty kinky sex camps. The guy put the cock in the peacock network, okay? Bitch. Hey everybody, AJ Benji here with fame as a bitch. This is your free podcast for Wednesday, march 8th, 2023. I'm not sure if I mentioned this on the free show or the Patreon, but yesterday was 38 years, my father has passed. And I can't really buy. It's just hard to even believe that. 38 years. And I'm 60. So we're talking, well, 23, 23 years old and changed when he died. Didn't know what I really wanted to do except be on TV, you know, write, maybe act, at the time I was involved with gambling operation with John Gotti's crew out in Queens and I was running what they called half sheets back in the day. My cousin, one of the black sheep cousins in my family, Albert was working for John. And we're related. Me and Albert distantly, but we had the same uncle great uncle, I should say. The same great uncle who was a killer from Meyer lansky, in the name of happy mayon, and Albert knew I needed some money. I just got married and owned a house and he's like, look, you know, you can come work for me. I was done with college, but I didn't want to go to some little school, a little paper in Alabama or Ohio, or Delaware, and make $21,000 a year. I couldn't do that. Run of the college I was working in the sports tout business and making shit. I missed the first two years. It must have made 75, $80,000 cash. It's a lot of money for a 22, 21 year old kid. My father knew I was making it. That got me into the business with John Gotti's people about bringing them customers who wanted a gamble. And as a result, every week, well, the first week, the first week they were brought in to gamble with John's organization. John's outfit, I would get half of what they lost. That was the rule. That's called half sheet. So the more people you bring in, the more money you can make. And I used a lot of people that I was talking to when I worked for the sports town agencies, and I made some good money. And then I would add little things on top of that by saying to the gamblers, look, you know, people you're gambling with are not, you know, your local neighborhood bookie this series people. So you got to send $5000 up front as security money in case you ditch us. And you'd be surprised how many people did this. And I didn't tell the gaudy people I was doing that. I just wanted some extra change for me. Well, this show is started three minutes in and we're so deep into this gangster past kind of shit, but I was thinking about it. Like if my dad while he was alive back then and as this was happening, he was alive and I think he was most concerned over the fact that I was going to make money, you know, that there's nothing to worry about.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Listening to Bloomberg opinion. I'm Holly Quinn. The Bahamas. Who wouldn't want to be headquartered there? Work there. Commute to and from that beautiful island nation. And yet, well, let's pause for a moment and bring in Bloomberg opinion columnist and university of Georgia professor Steven mim. So Stephen obviously the reason we're talking about The Bahamas is it hosted the headquarters of crypto exchange, FTX, which obviously imploded in recent weeks. We don't even know the extent of the damage caused by FTX and the associated Alameda You say though, that the first red flag came long before things like opaque balance sheets and odd line items. It was actually the fact that the headquarters was The Bahamas. Why is that? Well, you know, The Bahamas have this long-standing reputation, which is arguably quite deserved of being somewhat loose place legally. A place that really likes to tolerate and has for decades tolerated some fairly shadowy banking operations and also very kind of fly by night financial operations. It has regulation, but they are not capably administered at least haven't been. That's gotten a very bad reputation. Now, is this something that a particular administration has guided the island towards or is this something that's been true of The Bahamas since the founding of the island nation? Well, you know, in a way, you could argue that geography is destiny on some level when it comes to The Bahamas because it's incredibly close to the United States. So it's very convenient, but it's also operating completely outside of its legal shadow. So long ago, centuries ago, it was a center for piracy and people sort of operated there with impunity, even though it was a British colony, it basically kind of run by warlords almost. But later, it became a place to run guns during the Civil War. And then during prohibition, that's really when its story really takes off. The white former kind of planter class got into rum bootlegging and shipping rom. And that seems to have created a kind of ethos on the island among the white ruling class that tolerated, well, in that case, illegal operation. But that continued decade after decade. In the 1930s, as prohibition ended, it went into tax evasion, it became the go to place for evading high income taxes in the United States. And that's just kind of percolated. No, you say geography, but also, I guess it's just out of the reach of other regulators, can other kinds of authorities be involved when it comes to something like crime or shadowy behavior. I mean, could somebody be extradited from The Bahamas for example? Yes, there are extradition treaties, the bigger problem is the sharing of financial information and The Bahamas selective refusal to do so with other nations in a kind of reciprocal way. You know, it's gotten a lot of attention, negative attention or being a place where you can have offshore bank accounts that are unregulated and untaxed. And they've gotten a lot of pressure to comply with international regulations, especially after the year 2000. And because they were put on a black list, basically, that made it clear that you shouldn't do business with them. And so since that time, they've sort of grudgingly cooperated, but they've done so through this rather clever way of saying, yes, we agree to share information. However, we're only going to share information today with a Cayman Islands. I'm not going to share information with the EQ or what have you. So it's like basically they're cooperating with other tax havens, but not with core economic centers at the global financial system. Well, that's fascinating. I mean, is there competition between tax havens then? Yes, there is, actually, it's kind of like a race to the bottom. You know, remember the Panama papers, Panama is a place, Switzerland is obviously has a very different reputation. But then you have a lot of these other typically former colonial possessions now independent nations Vanuatu, the other South Pacific, small nation that have become places for this sort of offshore banking. What will change it because we think of The Bahamas as this beautiful island nation I'd love to work there. We'd love to work from there. It'd be an easy commute, would The Bahamas ever want to become sort of on the up and up as opposed to a place known for the fact that it has a little bit of an outlaw status? Well, I think there's obviously a downside to the crypto implosion taking place within the bombs and this doesn't give them a lot of credibility, but it would be a very hard habit to shake and historically has a lot to do with the relationship between a ruling class that is had a lot of involvement in very clandestine or shadowy things. And that's probably a very hard habit to break. It's changed a lot. Obviously, since independence in the 1970s, but a lot of the original players, they're known as the bay street boys, which makes it sound like they're like a KPop band or something, but these are the exactly. But these are like people of British descent who ran the island for decades and cut all sorts of corrupt deals with organized crime and the like. And I think a lot of that still carries over. And probably paved the way for when crypto made its appearance like here's a new kind of financial speculative entity that's unregulated. Someone in The Bahamas and they did. They really made a push for this. Let's bring crypto to the bombers and they succeeded. Unfortunately. That's still very much in play of kind of like, do you need a charter? And also conversely, interestingly enough historically, denying people charters. People who come in and like someone else's Meyer lansky, mob figures like, you're not letting them in. They can't build it. The casino stuff is a whole awesome side of this. There was a great story this air to the a and P fortune went in and tried to build a casino. And key built it on an island off of Nassau. And then the phase three boys were like, no, you're not going to be allowed to take a boat out there. Basically. I mean, it's bad for him. He got Bahamas blocked. Yes, Bahamas block, exactly. Yeah, I mean, you have a column out that details some of these stories and some of them are incredible and very fascinating with the type of thing that we all love to read, but at the same time, often these things end very badly for a lot of people as the FTX history is going to for a lot of people as well. What's the future for The Bahamas? I mean, the fact that a company is headquartered in The Bahamas is that enough to suggest that there should be a red flag or there are plenty of companies that are completely transparent and operating completely in the open that are based there. There are legitimate companies that are based in The Bahamas, for sure. Absolutely. What's troubling though is the number that are not so legitimate and have been historically. This is, I think, less of a problem now. But in the 1970s, for example, in the late 70s, there were 300 banks The Bahamas. There were more banks than bars in The Bahamas. And the vast majority of them were called suitcase corporations. They were effectively a post office box and nothing more specific obtained a kind of bogus charter. So the problem is that while there are very legitimate businesses in The Bahamas, I have no doubt. The damage that it does to those businesses to be in the same place as these other businesses is really unfortunate. And I think then that goes to your question actually about what is the future of The Bahamas because it's like guilt by association, which may well be unfair, but that probably has an unfortunate consequence on future development. I mean, to some extent, I guess I or anybody wouldn't want to judge the island nation given that it needs tourism. Absolutely. I suppose the easy way to ask it is can we blame The Bahamas? No, and this is really what I've written and certainly the reporting on this. The Bahamas really should not be blamed so much as Sam bankman freed, his associates in FTX, which were clearly operating in ways. You know, the interesting thing though is for outside investors the decision to locate there
Bloomberg Radio New York
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Bloomberg opinion. I'm Ronnie Quinn. The Bahamas, who wouldn't want to be headquartered there, work there, commute to and from that beautiful island nation. And yet, well, let's pause for a moment and bring in Bloomberg opinion columnist and university of Georgia professor Stephen mimm. So Stephen obviously the reason we're talking about The Bahamas is it hosted the headquarters of crypto exchange FTX, which obviously imploded in recent weeks. We don't even know the extent of the damage caused by FTX and the associated Alameda. You say though, that the first red flag came long before things like opaque balance sheets and line items. It was actually the fact that the headquarters was The Bahamas. Why is that? Well, you know, The Bahamas have this long-standing reputation, which is arguably quite deserved of being somewhat loose place legally, a place that really likes to tolerate and has for decades tolerated some fairly shadowy banking operations and also very kind of fly by night financial operations. In regulation, but they are not capably administered at least haven't been. That's gotten a very bad reputation. Now, is this something that a particular administration has guided the island towards or is this something that's been true of The Bahamas since the founding of the island nation? Well, you know, in a way, you could argue that geography is destiny on some level when it comes to The Bahamas because it's incredibly close to the United States. So it's very convenient, but it's also operating completely outside of its legal shadow. So long ago, centuries ago, it was a center for piracy and people sort of operated there with the community, even though it was a British colony, it basically kind of run by warlords almost. But later, it became a place to run guns during the Civil War. And then during prohibition, that's really when it's story really takes off. The white former kind of planter class got into rum bootlegging and shipping romp. And that seems to have created a kind of ethos on the island among the white ruling class that tolerated, well, in that case, illegal operation. But that continued decade after decade. In the 1930s, as prohibition ended, it went into tax evasion. It became the go to place for evading high income taxes in the United States. And that just kind of percolated. No, you say geography, but also, I guess it's just out of the reach of other regulators. Can other kinds of authorities be involved when it comes to something like crime or shadowy behavior? I mean, could somebody be extradited from The Bahamas for example? Yes, there are extradition treaties. The bigger problem is the sharing of financial information and The Bahamas selective refusal to do so with other nations in a kind of reciprocal way. It's gotten a lot of attention, negative attention or being a place where you can have offshore bank accounts that are unregulated and untaxed. And they've gotten a lot of pressure to comply with international regulations, especially after the year 2000. And because they were put on a blacklist, basically, that made it clear that you shouldn't do business with them. And so since that time, they've sort of grudgingly cooperated, but they've done so through this rather clever way of saying, yes, we agree to share information. However, we're only going to share information today with a Cayman Islands. I'm not going to share information with the EQ or what have you. So it's like basically their cooperating with other tax havens, but not with core economic centers at the global financial system. Well, that's fascinating. I mean, is there competition between tax havens then? Yes, there is, actually, it's like a race to the bottom. Remember the Panama papers, Panama is a place. Switzerland is obviously has a very different reputation. But then you have a lot of these other typically former colonial possessions now independent nations, Vanuatu, other South Pacific, small nations that have become places for this sort of offshore banking. What will change it because we think of The Bahamas as this beautiful island nation love to work there. We'd love to work from there. It'd be an easy commute, would The Bahamas ever want to become sort of on the up and up as opposed to a place known for the fact that it has a little bit of an outlaw status? Well, I think there's obviously a downside to the crypto implosion taking place within The Bahamas and this doesn't give them a lot of credibility, but it would be a very hard habit to shake and historically has a lot to do with the relationship between a ruling class that has had a lot of involvement in very clandestine or shadowy things. And that's probably a very hard habit to break. It's changed a lot. Obviously, since independence in the 1970s, but a lot of the original players, they're known as the bay street boys, which makes it sound like they're like a KPop band or something, but these are the exactly. But these are like people of British descent who ran the island for decades and cut all sorts of corrupt deals with organized crime and the like. And I think a lot of that still carries over. And probably paved the way for when crypto made its appearance like here's a new kind of financial speculative entity that's unregulated. Someone in The Bahamas and they did. They really made a push for this. Let's bring crypto to the bombers and they succeeded. Unfortunately. That's still very much in play of kind of like, do you need a charter? And also conversely, interestingly enough historically, denying people charters. People who come in and like someone else's Meyer lansky mob figures like, you're not letting them in. They can't build it. I mean, the casino stuff is a whole awesome side of this. There was a great story this air to the a and P fortune went in and tried to build a casino. And key built it on an island off of Nassau, and then the phase three boys were like, no, you're not going to be allowed to take a boat out there. Basically. I mean, it's bad for him. He got Bahamas blocked. Yes, Bahamas block, exactly. Yeah, I mean, you have a column out that details some of these stories and some of them are incredible and very fascinating with the type of thing that we all love to read, but at the same time, often these things end very badly for a lot of people as the FTX history is going to for a lot of people as well. What's the future for The Bahamas? I mean, the fact that a company is headquartered in The Bahamas is that enough to suggest that there should be a red flag or there are plenty of companies that are completely transparent and operating completely. In the open that are based there. There are legitimate companies that are based in The Bahamas for sure, absolutely. What's troubling though is the number that are not so legitimate and have been historically. This is, I think, less of a problem now. But in the 1970s, for example, the late 70s, there were 300 banks The Bahamas. There were more banks than bars in The Bahamas. And the vast majority of them were called suitcase corporations. They were effectively a post And
Game of Crimes
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"And you know, we had a lot of cash at that time. But I never went to the house. They could never trace it to me. And this was a relative of mine. Very close. So I didn't worry about anything. How big was that safe? It was big. It was a big inground safe. And it held a lot of money. So you're in ground pool, Murph. Not that bad. That's pretty small. But it was big. I mean, this is so cool because we've talked to other people that have been involved in this kind of stuff, but not to this level. I'm loving what we're hearing here. Or this level. I mean, it's like we talked with a guy named Ken rajak, who was the original one of the bolt cash money launderers. And he was having to physically carry money down, but I'll tell you one person. And there's a name you may not know the name Luis navia. He was on one of our episodes. He was a guy, came out of Cuba, but living in New York and but he ended up doing a lot of work for the cartels. He got popped coming out of Venezuela, 26 tons of cocaine. This guy had been worked across everything. But you know, growing up, you know who his father did business with. His father was legitimate, but did business Meyer lansky. Oh, really? He grew up and met Meyer lansky. I'm telling you. He really got around, man. That guy, you got to give him a lot of credit because so many things that I've heard people have that and I believe they're legit that have told me they were involved with him in some way or that he was able to help them or benefit them in some way. It's unbelievable. You know, it's funny because Javier and I were out at the mob museum in Vegas a couple of months ago. We spoke there. And it was the end of crime con and the organizers of crime con invited us to come in for the evening and the VIP thing. And we met Meyer lansky, I don't know the story. Yeah, I know him. I know him well. Oh yeah, he's a nice guy.
Game of Crimes
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"You're funny, Murph. Right, always before we get started, Martha has to say something smart. But be in Venice also make us. Then we need welcome to the next episode of narcos, Kelly, oh, no, that's the Patreon stuff. And if you're not subscribed to Patreon, you need to be game of crimes, Patreon dot com slash game crime. But anyway, we've got another stud with us today. Murph excluded. And this guy, we now a while back, we did an episode with Luis Navi, if you guys will remember, it was a book called pure narco. And it was episode 23, by the way. And it was Luis had an interesting history. Coming from Cuba, knowing Castro, you know, was it too Steve Meyer lansky? They had a connection with Meyer lansky. Oh, yeah. He was very he and his family are very wealthy and very well connected. But all good things must come to an end. And as we were discussing for drug traffickers, there's only one of two outcomes you either die or you go to federal prison. And this is the story about how Luis went to federal prison. Courtesy of our next guest, welcome to the podcast, Eric kalinske. Woohoo. Thank you guys. Glad to be here. And I think it's co binsky, right? What did I say? That's the correct. There you go. Come on. That's the way you spelled it. That's why I pronounced it. Look at Murphy's writings too small. You can't even read it. I've heard it pronounced. So many different ways. It doesn't face me. We're just going to use special K, Eric's special K all right, so hey, but this is going to be fun too because we got Luisa's view of what happened in his side of growing up and how things came to pass. And how he came to meet you. In a southern country in the southern hemisphere, after he had been transported, getting ready to ship out 26 tons of cocaine, I believe, to Europe. And Eric, you've ruined things for Luis, but according to Luis and we're seriously too. He even said it on the podcast. You saved his life. Had you not done that? He'd be a dead man because he should have been dead a couple other times, right? Who did he get kidnapped by Steve that nobody used to survive? And he survived. I still shocked that he survived up encounter. It was a stunt double. His stunt double got kidnapped by. Oh my gosh. So, you know, and just to let you know, Eric and I had the pleasure of working in Miami together. That's how we know each other. This is like, hey, everybody knows me. It's a pleasure, right? Listeners. Absolutely. Shutting down. This is like old home week bringing an old friend on here. So Eric, thank you so much for being here, brother. Like I said, glad to be here. Looking forward to it. This should be fun. All right, it should be as long as Murph just doesn't make these corny jokes like he's been known to make. So that's like the pop called the kettle black there, mister. Hey, hey, hey, hey, it's all about the narrative. So let's speaking a narrative. Let's talk about you for a minute, Eric. So as we always do, we want to talk about this thing of ours. This thing called law enforcement. So give us kind of an idea. How the hell did Eric coblin coal binsky? See, I said it right. Cole binsky, special K, how did you get involved in law enforcement? Where did this urge itch desire come from? Well, that's an interesting question because many times have reflected back in my life and asked myself the same thing. What the hell was I thinking? Well, I actually, I got a degree in agriculture from NC state university and at the time I was considering going on to graduate school. In particular, I was interested in working overseas in international agriculture. But I had a buddy of mine. Who was on the Durham North Carolina police department. And he kept bugging me. He said, look, they're looking for guys with college educations. You'd make a great cop. And you know, I grew up with a strong moral background, you know, right and wrong. Good and evil type of thing. Well, if you're going to go into farming, you had to be a farm boy. Well, you know, we had my parents purchased about 30 acres and, you know, we had some cows and chickens in that sort of thing. And really, I got more interest in agriculture from the standpoint of subsistence farming, you know, living off the land type of thing. I thought you were going to say cultivate and weed. Some of my NC state classmates, I think were there Jack purpose trust me. But no, so that was more of the whole idea, which now current state of affairs is probably a pretty good idea. Yeah, the way the prices are going, you might want to grow your own as they say but this time it means. Yeah. I got one quick question for you Eric. You root for the NCAA basketball tournament. Well, well, Carolina, of course. Oh, okay. Not NC actually. I started my freshman year. It Carolina. Yeah. I started off at Caroline. So anyway, so he kept bugging me to, you know, put in an application and more or less, it's time I took some time off after college is Downey outer banks, North Carolina built a house for the family. And so on the way home one day I stopped in at city hall to pick up an application and they said, you can't, you got to fill it out while you're here. So I felt a darn thing out. Next thing you know, I got some background investigators knocking on the door, wanting to interview me and stuff. And another little ironic strange little thing that happened along the way was I used to go on ride alongs with my friend, Kenny. And I remember it was a typical winter day in North Carolina to everything was gray. You know, you couldn't tell the ground from the sky. Everything was green. It was cold. It was miserable. The patrol car that he was in in those days there weren't take home cars. You know, you picked up a car from the previous shift and he hits the brakes and Coke cans and McDonald bags come to flying out on the seat. And then to make matters worse, the driver's door wouldn't open. So I can remember him laying down with his head in my lap and kicking the driver hoping to get out the answer a call. So anyway, my thought was, man, I could never do this. This is such a dirty, dirty, ugly job. I just couldn't do it. But anyway, I get hired in about a year later, I'm in a patrol car and I'm saying, man, did she have to kick the door open to get out? We got some budget problems in Durham. You know, you might have to might have to be why OC bring your own car. But it was like kind of a deja vu moment all of a sudden I was there and said, oh my gosh, here I am, you know, what happened? For those of us who have worked city police departments like all three of us have, you know, when you didn't have take home cards as a trooper I had to take a car which was glorious because you didn't have to share it with anybody. But hey, real quick, what was the worst thing you ever found in one of your cars when you took it over from a shift? Oh gosh. I think the worst thing was always the bag of greasy chicken bones. Other than the gone under the back seat, you know, we'd always check the back seat or the dog or the needles yet. We'd always check the back seat, you know. But. How old were you when you got hired by Durham? 27. I was on the 8 year college plan. I dropped out for four years. See, I just want to get along. I told my daughter because she was talking about she wasn't sure if she's going to do four or 5 years. I say, you may be on the 5 year plan, but dad is on the four year plan. But that's the other thing too. So we used to have guys who would not clean their cars. And so, you know, every now and then you'd find a greasy bag of old stale food and stick it under their run the heater for a while and then turn it over to them and it's like. Anyway, those were so good. Those were some bad battle days, but so how long did it take you from.
Fresh Air
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Fresh Air
"What were you able to learn about that from researching the book? Well, you know, another thing I should say is that you've also got Sam for meissner who's sort of the third rival. In there as well, because Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall and James connell studied with him. And so part of what I see in that actually is that because, in some ways, the end goal of meisner Adler and strassberg is the same. And it's that shared end goal with stanislavski of experiencing of that kind of absolute truth. You can see how all these different paths can lead to a fairly similar or compatible place. The acting in those movies is magnificent. It is really incredible what they do as an ensemble. And you also see little moments that kind of highlight what each of those teachers are best at. So I think, for example, the sequence where Al Pacino is at the restaurant considering whether or not to commit murder for the first time. There's about halfway through the first godfather film. He gets he gets the gun from the tank behind the toilet and he's going through this whole tortured consideration of whether he's actually going to go through with this act. And how is he going to do it? But he never says that. There's no lines where he says it. It's all in his body and it's all in his face and it's almost like you can read his thoughts on the subtext of the character. That is Lee Strasberg techniques at its best. Then later in the film, when Diane Keaton is confronting Al Pacino, when K is confronting Michael about whether or not he had his brother in law killed. And he's saying over and over and over again, don't ask me about my business K don't ask me about my business, and they're sort of provoking each other back and forth repeating these same lines over and over and over again. That to me is the amazing messiness and spontaneity that samford meisner really taught his students. And he often taught them that through an exercise that involved repeating lines back and forth to one another. And then when you get to the second film and you have De Niro as the young veto Corleone, De Niro also studied with Stella Adler. And you get this sort of heavily research driven process where he's really trying to feel not only like this character, but like an Italian immigrant of the early 20th century. And what would that person look like? How would they inhabit the space? What would their accent be like? How would they talk? You know, has that really weird scratchy voice in that movie? And all of that comes from this kind of in depth research that he would do. So you really see these people bring the best of what those various teachers have to offer. In a way that I find just totally thrilling. I love Lee Strasberg's performance as Hyman Roth, who is based on Meyer lansky. I love when he offers everybody tuna fish sandwiches. Yes. Anyways, I wonder what it was like to have him as a working actor since he was like the leading acting teacher of the 20th century. Yeah, well, you know, it's funny because at that point he was incredibly famous as an acting teacher. And he was making a lot of money as an acting teacher. He did not need to go act in this movie. Really, he didn't..
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
AJ Recalls Flipping the Pages of 'Mafia at War'
"Whenever my father would tell me stories of his days as an undercover narcotics cop for the US Treasury, he'd get to talking about chasing mobsters like Joe Gallo, Joe profaci Joe Colombo, a lot of Joe's back then. I was only a kid when he bought me a magazine with a lot of gangsters in it and a bunch of black and white pictures of a lot of guys who got rubbed out. It was called mafia at war. And he'd tell me who he knew and who he chased and which ones used to come to my grandmother's house in Brooklyn and drink her wine and eat her pasta. And eventually he pointed to one hard nosed mean looking gangster in the fedora and an overcoat who was named Harry happy mayon, who was a hitman for Meyer lansky, and a member of murder incorporated. And my father would say, this is a great uncle on your mother's side. I'd say, why'd they call him happy? Because he was a mean son of a bitch. I love that magazine. I used to memorize those guys like kids in my class would memorize them baseball cards. Some kids could tell you how many hits Hank Aaron had, I could tell you how many hits Sal maranzano survived.
Game of Crimes
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"It just so happened that yes, the mob was down in Q, but big time everybody knows that they were partners with Batista, and they were building their casinos because Meyer lansky who was a financial genius behind the Italian mafia. You know, decided to make Cuba, their own headquarters for gambling. It was a Paradise. You know, they had to complete backing of the government. But it just so happens that they went to bank of financier, Julio laws bank. My dad was on the board of director, my dad meant Julius, and Julius was an excellent. He was Myers accountant, but you never hear about Julius Rosen garden because he was just Myers accountant, but they became great friends and his wife, Emma, rose and guard, and my mom became great friends socially, that, yeah, they borrowed money from Banco financiero, like any hotel and Banco financier on the money. My dad even let Julius some money on a personal basis. I still have the IOU's and the personal notes they ran between each other. My dad back in 58, I think Glen Julius a $150,000. My dad was a very wealthy man. And when we came from Cuba, he brought money a substantial amount of money. And with that money, he started the first sugar refinery in Florida, back then, how was he able to get the money out with Castro and power? Well, remember that he had been in the sugar business for years, and he had already for years had banking relationships with New York and Switzerland. They were the largest sugar traders in the world. My dad had all types of banking relationships and he basically transferred the money out and but he also snuck some gold out too, didn't he? Gold? Yeah. No, I don't, I never. Did he have any gold? Okay. No, my dad was he was not a speculator at all. He was strictly a very administrative mind. He believed in. But he was able to bring the good chunk of money though, right? Was he able to bring just money from Cuba? Yes. Yes. Okay. Very good. I mean, it's surprising because we know Castro nationalized everything. Yeah. But he pulled out before he said he was going for a medical checkup in Boston. And so he went first, then he called for us. And we flew over on a Pan Am flight with my mom, my sister, me and two maids. We arrived at the United States with two maids on a panel in flight, you know? There's a blast from the past. When's the last time you heard somebody flying Pan Am? Oh, yeah. I have a picture of us getting off the plane. And where do we go? You know, they used the vacation on key Biscayne. So we go to the key Biscayne hotel and stay in Cabana. There's two story cabanas. They had back there next to the beach and who was next door to us. Richard Nixon. He was recuperating from the Kennedy election. The losing the election, he was recuperating on key Biscayne, relaxing with his friend, Bebe rebozo..
Game of Crimes
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"And you know, when Fidel came to power Julio lobo actually thought that he was going to be able to manipulate or handle Fidel and my dad told him he really did. And my dad told him Julio no. Julio told my dad nabia low money hammock. We're going to handle him like a puppet. And my dad saw the writing on the wall. Things were getting a little shaky because of Fidel wanted Julio handle the ministry of sugar. He finally then put in Che Guevara. But my dad put in. He put in the Che Guevara? Yes, he was handling the ministry a while. The ministry of sugar, that's such an oxymoron. Yeah, because they wanted Julio lobo to handle it because obviously Julio was the sugar industry. Him and, you know, some of the other big players in the sugar business was one of them that is now a very wealthy big player in Florida. But my dad saw the writing in the walls. And he said, you know, I'm going for a medical checkup, and he went to Boston. Where he met with his friend, who I called Theo Julius, Julius rosengart, who happened to be the accountant for Meyer lansky. Now, when Meyer lansky was building the Havana Riviera in Cuba, he got some financing from Banco financiero, which was owned by Julio lobo. And my dad and Julius independent of Julius working for Meyer lansky, they just became great friends. And that's when I can interrupted just the second Louis. So Meyer lansky is a known mafioso from the New York City families for those who don't recognize that name. And if you don't know who Che Guevara is, he was a devout communist that was part of the Castro regime, participated with the guava model and communist regime. I believe he's dead now last I heard, is that right? Yes. Che Guevara became popular and anybody that became too popular for the dog got rid of fidela sent him to Bolivia. He said, you know, you're a revolutionary. You're a true revolutionary, you know, does blue smoke up is, you know what? And sent him to Bolivia, and he thought that he was going to be able to do the same thing he did in Cuba and just the bolivians looked at him and he said, you know, what is all this? It wasn't like Cuba. They became proactive, and they got support from the Cuban people. Bolivians were just odd and they sent them into the jungles, sure enough CIA came went down there with rangers, nailed them. Felix Rodriguez, he's one of the guys that comes out in one of the narco series. Having to do something with Kiki camarena that, you know, well, you all know he's right. The DEA agent Felix Rodriguez a Cuban CIA guy was one of the last guys to see check it out. You know, when one of the Bolivian the order was to bring him in, but then they decided to shoot him. Che Guevara, things happen. Going back to Meyer lansky because he was known as the mob's account and he's also was associated with Charles Lucky Luciano. I mean, these were some big name crime family, so during that time, but what you're saying is your dad was never mobbed up like that right. He was a pure straightforward businessman, no mob connections in terms of business. Whatsoever..
Citation Needed
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Citation Needed
"Eddie seacock. Okay for listeners. Who are not into sports. I looked it up and the dead ball era. That was a period from about nineteen hundred to babe. ruth. Hit the ball more than the other guys So this was a period of time when baseball was somehow and i cannot imagine how actually less exciting than that's take it down a notch. Try to small ball and the chess game of Yep bunting pizza lacrosse so yeah so seek up by the way is going to be a pretty central figure in this story pretty much. None of comiskey's players liked him but see had reason to hate him more than most in nineteen seventeen seek out was do a ten thousand dollar bonus if he won thirty games during the regular season so any polished office twenty-ninth win with two weeks left in the season. Comiskey bench does -at's could play. You should the contract better the right way to do it. Yeah so and this part is disputed But some sources say similar thing in nineteen eighteen to comiskey's credit that actually had to do with an injury had twelve wins in nineteen eighteen hartselle. Maybe he could like bugs. Bunny it over two weeks. You never bunch wins with one pitch like one to three hundred on our own two weeks but that's that's pretty rare. The details are slightly different but as pistons seek was. He wasn't going to be the ringleader of this operation. That would charles chick. Gandhi gandhi was six foot three inches. Which is six foot eight and today's inches. There's a conversion rate for inches to wrong era. So three that's pretty good. I mean that's not export but like that's pretty good. He's pretty and he was as such a mean motherfucker that like. Would you look at his picture today. You instinctively give it your lunch money. Okay he was described by contemporaries as a professional malcontent and according to wikipedia. According to his wikipedia page he quote did not hesitate to use shear strength to get his point across and quote so like cobb without the principles or the skillet. Playing baseball is but yeah now. There are alternating accounts of how this next bit went down and the more dominant narrative is group of mobsters reached out to gandel about potentially throwing the series but the more modern scholarship on it pretty much definitively proves that is actually candle. That approached the mobsters a lot of counts desperately tried to turn all the conspirators into like rubes. That were the victims of circumstances. Scared by these gangsters so obviously the idea them cooking up the whole idea and then bringing it to the mobsters under custody. I should point out. That same tendency is also why every out of this story kind of starts with how miserly comiskey was in reality is players were among the highest paid in the league regardless of who comes up with the idea if you do it. You're guilty of doing well right. Yeah exactly but if you're threatened into it it's easier to forgive the you know your former heroes or whatever so sure so. We really don't know the origins of the conspiracy entirely but on september twenty first. A meeting of white sox players took place at chick candles hotel room in new york city back then. There was no like multi round playoff system. That like the team with the best record in the national league just played the team with the best record in the american league. And that was that so it would have been pretty much right after. The sox clinch their spot in the thousand nine world series. And it's here. That gandel offers up his proposal. Each player that agrees to throw the game. We'll get ten thousand dollars for every game. They loops and unlike all. But i think one of the previous world series the one in nineteen nineteen was a best of nine format so that would be fifty thousand dollars each way more than any of these guys made a year. Plus you obviously bet against yourselves. Make way more money would help to. And then you spend that money on bitcoin. The second comes out boom trillionaire area. Wait and then you invest that in. Nf tease of internet pictures. And they're back to cleaning the hotel room gay out yeah so in. All there were eight conspirators in the room. That day of we've already mentioned gondal. See cotton lefty williams. There was also center fielder. Oscar happy fell sh- short stop. Charles swede raspberries. And it's of course. Legendary outfielder shoeless joe jackson. We're gonna talk about him a bit more later. I feel like everybody who didn't have like a middle quotes. Name was so fucking pissed. Because steve jones all right. Yeah no actually let your my next guy. Here has just fred mic He was actually useless in terms of fixing the series that he was a utility infielder and barely any playing time but he did overhear something about the facts and he threatened to blow the whistle if he didn't get cut and lastly there was the sad sack. The john cusak character third baseman. George buck weaver. The only one of the eight. That would never actually take any of the money you know the next few weeks. Was everyone trying to kill mcmullan. But he kept barely missing and villes and like poison that he was as you guys have to let me conspiracy to defraud right right so and of course bankrolling. The effort is a gambling syndicate led by the notorious arnold rothstein. You that one. Yes yes he will also he will certainly eventually get his own fucking up. Assad suffice to say he was a real mob bosses by bossi was the mentor to future crime. Buses lucky luciano. Meyer lansky and frank castillo to name a few He was also very much the kind of guy that would break your mother's legs. If he thought you were insufficiently motivated. He was a mob bosses mob. Boss i like the idea of a pro labor socialist mob boss you. You'll love every labor union literally ever fun fact fun fact. Arnold rothstein took my grandmother on a date. She told you that. So okay so game. One of the world series is scheduled. Prac- tober i. There were no night games back then. There were no television stations and we were still two years away from the first radio broadcast of the world series. This game started at three pm on a wednesday and nobody found that weird. How the fuck is the world series. Even worth betting on it. There's nobody there to watch it or listen. That's actually a really good question. The reason baseball was so popular is because you could put the scores and everything in the evening newspapers right. That's how everybody kept up with it. So in the the conspirators caught a break in the lead up to the series when pitcher red neighbor came down with flu like symptoms and got left off the roster. Nine ninety. i'm against that was. The flew flew a lot of people that live here kind of known for its flu. Like symptoms really. He wasn't gonna live in fear though you know so. Yes so now. Faber is one of those clean socks. That i was talking about earlier. There is no way he would have got along with the fixed. And you might not think that would matter much right like apple. You've got seven players out of a twenty five man roster on your site including the star outfielder late the star player. How hard could it possibly be to lose. Well the black socks were about to learn a hell of a lot harder than you would think of. Barely a few of them are about to.
Business Wars
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Business Wars
"It's june of nineteen seventy five in oak park illinois a little after midnight. Along with meyer lansky mob kingpin. Sam giancana has been the reigning controller of the syndicates. Hold on vegas for decades but both men's grip is slipping now june khanna's bathrobe black socks and slippers cooking sausages in his basement kitchen Nothing like the smell of a good italian sausage a tony. You bet sam. Giancana's trusted beloved lieutenant. Anthony the ants below tro slouches in a chair. Smoking cigarettes at a small kitchen table pillow tro has been a high profile chicago mob soldier in vegas for the last few years. He's even earned a page in the black book that banned certain gangsters from sin city. He's a notoriously violent hothead but giancana is at ease and chatters nonstop. I tell you tony that mexican food and cuernavaca. It ain't bad you know. I do like the shrimp but this is the way for the last decade. Giancana has been living high on the in mexico. It's been his base of operations for global travels and overseeing his illegal business empire giancana's.
Business Wars
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Business Wars
"Said way said way ambos to stand he short portly and wearing a rumpled suit. He's also a shrewd trusted. Lieutenant of chicago mob boss. Meyer lansky said way is a key architect of the syndicates. Growing takeover vegas in testimony. So far mobsters are taking. The fifth and nevada officials. Called to testify are denying any knowledge of taxable profit skimming said way is part of the underworld but he keeps a strong front as a legitimate businessman for good measure. He's on the board of the local library. He knows a lot. Or what he'll say is anybody's guess. Senator father steps up with a stern look on his face. He wants to nail this thug. Meyer lansky is a leader in chicago organized crime and he's your boss. He's also the silent owner of the flamingo hotel. Where you are manager is he not. It's all true. Of course. But said way shrugs mr lansky is a business associate who used to own one hundred shares in the flamingo. That's it me. I'm in las vegas real estate just trying to make a living for my family. He father frowns at said way and shakes his head. In the gallery said ways vegas gang-land associates exchange worried glances ways regular guy. Schtick is clearly riling. the senator offer gets directly to the point. You've been involved in paying off nevada officials having you. It's a common practice even respected nevada. Senator pat mccarron is allegedly on the take. He's tried hard to squash the hearings into the mobs activity in the casinos. Because if the mob get shutdown vegas get shut down. The state's economy will go into a tailspin. Said way looks at the senator. Blankly clears his throat. For the record. I have had three major coronary thrombosis and i've had diarrhea for six weeks and i haven't ulcer hemorrhoids. An intestinal abscess. I just got out of bed. And i am loaded with drugs. He father is outraged. Sir your health is none of my concern you associate with the scum of the earth people who are chancer spot on the body politic suddenly said way becomes serious. Kiefer's touched a nerve. We don't get as rich as you think. Senator this is hard work. Bc in the end. Key fowler's las vegas hearings fizzle out. Thanks to the mobs alliance with the nevada government. The bosses think they've dodged a bullet they figure they can keep skimming hell bay figure. They can expand their holdings and they will for now. Business wars is supported by borough the company setting a new standard in furniture with easy to move modular designs timeless american mid-century contemporary scandinavian styles and premium durable materials like responsibly. Forested hardwood boroughs. Easy to use website allows you to customize your own furniture without leaving the house plus every order no matter how small or large is delivered directly to your door for free thanks again to burrow for supporting the show. Listeners can get seventy five dollars off their first order at borough dot com slash b. W that's borough spelled b. u. r. owed w dot com slash b. W for seventy five dollars off. Borough dot com slash. Bw we get support from rocket mortgage. When you're looking for a home you wanna make sure it meets your needs. Can you work in that office. Can your family cook together in that kitchen. You have to know. The house fits right and with rocket mortgage. You can make sure your financing fits too with rocket mortgage. You'll have the tools information and expert help. You need understand all of your home loan options. They'll work at your pace and on your schedule visit rocket mortgage dot com slash business wars. Because when you need mortgage that fits your life. Rocket can call for cost information and conditions equal housing lender licensed in all fifty states in mls consumeraccess dot org number thirty thirty from wondering..
Something You Should Know
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Something You Should Know
"You'll find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks for being here. Sarah appreciate you coming on. Thank you so much you know when you fly the flight attendants do that little demonstration that includes what to do if the oxygen masks come down in an emergency. We'll have you ever wondered where on the plane they keep all that oxygen me. Don't there are no big tanks of oxygen. That would be dangerous would weigh a lot and take up a lot of room instead. What really happens is there is a chemical reaction that creates oxygen. The chemicals are barium peroxide sodium chlorate and potassium chlorate. And you know that part in the demonstration when the flight attendant says you need to pull down on the mask to release the flow of oxygen. Well what really happens. Is that tug on. The mask. triggers a firing pin that initiates that chemical reaction the byproduct of that reaction is oxygen. There's enough for about twenty minutes. Which is enough time for the pilot to bring the plane lower so you can breathe again and that is something you should know. I always appreciate when people take the time to leave a rating and review of this podcast on apple podcasts. If you have a moment it takes no time at all and it helps us with our rankings. It believe me it helps us so leave a rating and review if he would. I'm mike carruthers. Thanks for listening today to something you should know. There is a world beneath our own created over a century. ago by america's original gangsters. Meyer lansky lucky.
The Charles Moscowitz Podcast
"meyer lansky" Discussed on The Charles Moscowitz Podcast
"Nineteen forty six the same time the flamingo was opening and lasky was there and And all of the other heads of the mob and lansky and luckily who's head of the american mafia or very close from the time they were kids ano- when luchino tried to have his gang steal Landscapes lunch money as a kid and lasky brought back. He got beat up but he fought back in so Louisiana saw something special tim so they became friends for life after that and they were the ones who combined called the combination the jews and the italians they were the ones are putting together 'cause sicilians and italians never wanted to mix with anybody way so yeah back. They talked about that in the godfather movies. They show how while one of the sons was like half irish and he was seen as like. You know like a lieutenant. He could never really be on the inside because he wasn't a full blooded sicilian fingers Yeah but but yeah. I mean and the families are very tight you know. It's like the old saying. Keep your keep your friends close and your enemies closer by strike surrogate whereas the jewish mobsters. I don't know they. They kind of were second fiddle to the italian sauces in the united states and they often played roles of like Kind of quarriers and and You know they would carry messages and they would perform services. I mean my alaska legalism accountant. No you're you're going on a wrong track okay. were separate. they were separate they. Didn't they didn't curry curry for anyone but themselves. And they did call. Meyer lansky the mob accountant. And they call the mob auditor. He went behind landscape to make sure everything was correct. Seaside way was very quiet introspective person he was not a killer at heart and he never personally killed anyone although he did hire murder inc to kill. Somebody wants and seagull but his participation in that as a wedding gift to subway who singles of course. Yeah it was a killer. Absolutely and he. He enjoyed it. He would go out of his way to be part of the group and of killers and it didn't matter if it was by himself or with a group to handle the deal was barred people. Absolutely there's nothing glamorous about him we're not talking about. I think it was Recently the late f. Lee bailey who I interview before. He passed away a couple of years ago and he represented barboza was one of the most vicious killers and arable horrible man and he was asked at went barbosa diet. He's a reporter. Asked him how he felt about it and he goes you know our society is no worse for wear without him around and he's a anyways but What happened to segue in at the end. Well unusual that Segue died of natural causes. He was killed by anybody. But the reason siegel was killed was because he threatened the life of our subway. Yeah well i mean. I would think that seagal would have been savvy enough to know that that would have been doubt sentence but maybe he had become so full of himself that it didn't with got his beyond that we'll it's more than that. He knew there was a death sentence when he refused to Payback any the flamingo that he had borrowed even to make the first payment when they started becoming successful in the hotel. He's up pay him up pam. You know i get around to it..
Newsradio 600 KOGO
"meyer lansky" Discussed on Newsradio 600 KOGO
"Than the cars, you're like, Oh, there's a 68 charger that's cool. There's a 65 Mustang, but I mean, this is how stupid it is. They design a Pontiac Fiero to go into outer space and destroy the satellite that the bad guy John Cena has going. It's like I had a neighbor that had a Pontiac zero. It couldn't get down the street without breaking down yet this one's going into outer space. This is the most utterly ridiculous movie. Uh, you know, even their facial expressions. They look like they smell something bad, which is probably the dialogue coming out of the other actors mouth. It's just It's horrible. Well, tell us how you really feel I'm is it should we go see it Unless you're a 15 year old 15 year old kids like the explosions and stuff, but that's about it. Okay, so that sounds like it was fabulous. Uh, let's see him. We got a couple of mob movies. One of them is Lansky like Meyer Lansky. Yeah. Yeah. And Harvey Keitel plays him and, um, one of the worst actors Sam Worthington. Every time he's in a movie, it looks like it pains him to get the words out of his mouth. William Hurt is the other actor that has that They always look like they're pain slightly as they say there. Dialog, but he's a report of its interviewing him. And they, of course do flashbacks. So it becomes a period piece of him working with Bugsy Siegel. And it's really good. The problem. The movie has, as you've seen all this before another mob movies. It doesn't really, you know, it doesn't reinvent the wheel, so it's just kind of like, Yeah, you're seeing actors you like and it's It's an interesting story, because the true story, um but, you know, it's just kind of goes down the same path. So I I enjoyed learning a little bit more about him because I didn't see the movie that I think Richard Dreyfuss once played Lansky in a film and then, of course, Bugsy Siegel. He You know, I think in bugs eat there was a lot of Lansky stuff, but, um But the other mob movie I liked better as the birthday cake, and that's the one that's not going to get a lot of attention. And it has literally every person that's ever been in a mob movie is in this, like Vincent Pastore e. Paul Sorvino, and it's got Laurean Bronco. It's got people like Luis Guzman plays a cabdriver who's hysterical, and Ewan McGregor is the priest. And they follow a birthday cake around that this kid he's a teenager. He has to take to this big mob party. And, of course, everything that happens along the way that you know the FBI try to shake him down and His friend has problems with some drug dealers. He's dealing with these Russian bullies, and it's just It's just a lot of fun following this cake around. I don't know why. It's just it's kind of flow in parts, but I was intrigued by everything happening, and every the worst casting those Val Kilmer because he can't you know he had throat cancer and he can't speak. So he speaks like with that electronic voice box thing, like, you know, people that smoke and they have the whole in their throat now, so it kind of is distracting, and they have subtitles for him And I thought Dad. Why did you even cast him in this? It makes you wonder what they're going to possibly do with his part in top gun too, Because you know, you really just I mean, you feel bad for him, but you know, they kind of give him some back story that I don't think he was shot by Iraq or arrival Bob or something. But it's just so other than Val Kilmer. The rest of the cast is really interesting and fun to watch. Coincidentally, I knew someone that used to be Val Kilmer's assistant. Let's just say that you know what they say about some actors who are are very difficult. Is that the word you're looking for? Difficult, different? Um, What's another word for unique special? Yeah, that's fell. Kilmer. I met him one time and he wasn't the nicest person, but I thought, Well, you know, maybe he knew I was a movie critic. No, I think it's just because you were another person. Exactly. Oh, it's one of the little people trying to speak to me again. Josh board. Thanks for joining us. We'll talk to you next week. All right. Here are the stories training in San Diego. Four Dead. 159 now are unaccounted for in the collapse of the condo building in Surfside, Florida Road Rage..
On with Mario Interviews
"meyer lansky" Discussed on On with Mario Interviews
"Pick your on wwl. Mario lopez join right now on zoom actor director producer. And my boy danny a. How's it going danny body. You're looking good. I love that your films are prominently placed behind you in the zoom. That is not only strategic clever but also a good luck. So congratulations on that. This is my office in my house. The fact that. I get to sit here do this. This is incredible stuff. I love it. 'cause for those who may not be familiar. I mean we've been friends for for a while. Now and danny was a nightclub sort. King ran the hottest nightclubs out. New york and vegas in. La and he transitioned. He's still got a piece of that action. But he transitioned into the entertainment industry to essentially direct ride and fund his own movies. And he's done quite well and now he's worked with these big actors from like pacino to deniro and he's got a new movie with harvey keitel. Which i'm really excited about called lansky in this is essentially based on the true story of the gangster. Meyer lansky correct. Absolutely yes i. I don't find my own movies. I wish i could. No you would get department you. Would you would get the the resources you get the resource allocation living in hawaiian. Thank you for correcting me. I meant you you got that. You're responsible for putting the money together. I raised him on the raise. The money that's it. I find the talent the description i talk to do. This the hardest into out of everything exactly. Yes you're exactly right. So this movie. About meyer lansky is often talked about. I don't know too many movies that have been dedicated to them. Is this the first. it's it's no well. There was one age. Year will be with richard dreyfuss eighties. That's right lane ski but any in godfather to day had The character hybrid rock on my lanes. Love that character and yeah expire credible saying you know in the movie. Bugsy banking's replays in. Yes all a movie marsters Paget dempsey blazing retrained but to me the most interesting of all those guys. I mean just the fact that you know the guys five for two looks like your grandfather and his demos pounds against world in my mind. That has really awful. Because when you think gangsters he'd been violent Building and quickly before we get in the movie itself. His backstory is essentially. What he was in emigrant was the a kid. That was just good with numbers. And how did he what was his. How did he put the together. So he wasn't even grant. Day was born in russia and early age nine. I think they moved to side. New york raised in new york. How did it. I mean it was just basically debris me early on you realize he was raping numbers and he kind of figured out odds in and how did like the house is house owes wins and this whole racket was gambling. I mean that's what he really gaza Ozzy guy into bootlegging in all that but it was a huge moneymaker for democracy. Became the the head of the the mob. You started the commission and murder zinc everything that you see in modern day with the five families. It was all started looking jab senior finance. Las vegas real real life. Real true.
KTOK
"meyer lansky" Discussed on KTOK
"You mentioned movies earlier today earlier in this interview, and one of the things movies seem to do is is to almost make every mobster Italian, and that's not the case. No. Um, but Italians Ah, Sicilians, in particular dominated organized crime after World War two because the U. S government made a deal with them If they were to help General Patton invade Sicily, then Some of them would be admitted to the United States is exactly what happened. But the Jewish Gangsters Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, that an alliance with um the Italians in Boston, the Irish mob. That's what he bowled here. The Winter Hill gang they had alliance. S Oh, there it wasn't exclusively Italian. But to this day, the Italians are the most powerful mobsters in America. Bill O'Reilly killing the mob. Oh, by the way, Quick story. My grandpa was working in the oil patch back and the pretty boy Floyd days and one day he was walking along an old gravel road. And here came a car just hitting the ground every once in a while, he said, followed by a model T full of cops. The pretty boy Floyd escaped across the bridge. The cops hit the bridge flipped and guns and ammunition. Where everywhere all over the place. He described what he later found out. It was pretty boy. Lloyd they were chasing who had robbed one of the banks in one of the oil towns. That's amazing. That's an amazing story on these bank robbers. They were prolific. I mean they would hit 45 banks a week from Minnesota to Texas. And they were everywhere. And that's why the federal government had organized the FBI's stop them. And they knew when payday Woz for the oil man usually was on a Thursday and it was it was cash, then it would be plenty of cash. And they stole literal millions of dollars. But as they said, once the FBI got on it, these guys were marked for death the over it in one And pretty boy. Floyd got it right between the eyes. We tell that story. On how they got him. And and his gruesome um, you know, it's interesting difference in philosophy from then to now, in law enforcement. His grave was over in Cherokee County, and I think people picked apart his tombstone because everybody wanted a memento of pretty boy Floyds tomb, stunning thing to replace it twice or three times something along those lines. These guys were heroes because everybody hated the banks back in the Depression days. They hated the banks. And these guys were, you know, flaunting that they were and then they would throw wads of cash at people and stuff like that. So they became folk heroes. But again, they were evil. Bill O'Reilly. The name of the book is killing the mob. I haven't begun it yet, but it is number one on my list of summer reads and I have a special request for you Bill, the next killing Syria's killing Hoover. Herbert? No, I'm sorry, J. Edgar. Yeah, we deal with them and killing them on. Yeah, we deal with that on How he died. Okay. Okay. Yeah. When you get finished book, Lee, I hope we can talk again. Absolutely some questions. Well, right. We'll hash it all out. Talk to you later I was playing. This has been later with Leigh Matthews. Leigh Matthews Podcast. Remember to listen. Live to the drive weekdays from 5 to 7 on NewsRadio. 1000..
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"meyer lansky" Discussed on KPRC 950 AM
"Less than $400,000. You will not pay a single penny in taxes. I understand that That's It's not ideal. It's not ideal for the commander in chief to be, um Nonfunctional. Get that the world is on fire. Gas prices are through the roof. You can't buy a board for less than $10,000. It's inflation. Everything's terrible. Israel's having to go to war on their own. It's everything sucks. But Chris, get that Kamala Harris clip ready. You do understand that when Biden's gone One. We're not going to get the hilarious clips every day in two Do you have any idea how often we're going to have to hear this voice? Build our country up having the ability to see what can be created and what can be okay. All right. Stop. Stop, Chris. I'm getting the shippers. I'm getting the ship. It's just every time it's the huh. You get that feeling, you know when you walk out, and it's a little chilly Way have Michael malice coming up next hour. I'm gonna ask him what he thinks. About Dr Fauci. We've never actually talked to doctor about Dr Fauci with Michael Malice. I can't wait to get the micro malice Take on that. Last hour. We have Emerald Robinson Newsmax. She is She's a little bit spicy. At this point in time, I'll put it to you that way. All right back to Meyer Lansky. Russia Europe programs early 19 hundreds When a local community leader, a local politician would decide of mean somebody's shop gets raided. Someone gets robbed their stabbed. They would often times rally. It's the Jews. The Jews did it. And they would essentially have the people rise up as a rabid mob. And they would descend on the Jewish part of whatever city whatever area they were in. And Debated whether or not I was going to tell you about this thing, but I need you to understand the violence of programs. In one incident. This is one They took several forms women, oftentimes even very young ones. Even very old ones were assaulted terribly in ways I don't want to talk about and one incident. They ripped all the men out of their homes burned down all their shops and homes, took the men outside of town where they gouged out their eyes and cut out their tongues. That is what I'm talking about. I don't I don't just mean somebody dragged outside and slapped around a little bit. Not that that's okay. I mean violence and death and terror. And because of this, because the Jewish community was living like this early 19 hundreds often times Jewish gangs, and I don't even know if gang is a fair way to put it. A group of Jewish men would rise up in these areas. And decide no more. No, But we are the protection squad. Now the government not only won't protect us, but often times the government is the one pushing this for persecution of us. We've had enough. Which everybody right now is staring at the speaker going. Oh, yeah, I can see that. Any of that sound familiar to you at all? By the way? Meyer Lansky grew up in that world. That's the world he grew up in, at least, is a young child. Finally, as was happening often, 1911 comes in the his family just couldn't take it anymore, And they didn't say they decided to immigrate to America. Come on over to America. They live that early immigrant upbringing that so many people do to this day and back then Fresh to the country. You're legally here trying to get by. Get whatever work you can. Dad's trying to make ends meet Mom's trying to keep close on the kids back. And now you have this child. He had several siblings. But you have this child named Meyer. Mayer was an excellent student. Mayer was quiet. Meyer Woz tiny and I mean, tidy, and that's going to come into play as a full grown adult. They think he was 51. We don't know exactly. But, yeah, I mean, a small human being. But This small human being was just a different guy in a couple different things happen to him when he was younger that show you that one. His mother would often times give him a nickel to send him up the street. There's a not wealthy people in the nickel was significant money back then would give him a nickel to go up the street and buy stew for the family so the family could have hot stew that night. One time. Myer takes his nickel leaves the house. Sees AH neighborhood gambling game. I think it was crap game they were playing on the sidewalk. Decides to go plank his nickel down. And loses it. First turn Had to walk back home and explain to his family and shame why they would not be eating hot stew that night. Meyer Lansky talked about it endlessly. That was the moment that shaped his life. He swore he would never be on the losing end of the odds again. And boy, did he turn that around? And another really cool. Meyer Lansky story. I told you you were going to end up rooting for this guy. This was an era. Of gangs just like now, don't think what you're seeing now with these street gangs is unique when you have an urban area. And poor parts of an urban area. You will have violent street gangs that is not in America thing. It's not a Chicago think it's not a New York thing. That is the history of the world. And this was the era of Irish gangs and Italian gangs in Jewish gangs because those were the main Poor immigrant groups who had poured into town. They were all crammed and just a few, you know, just a couple square miles in New York. And they were all fighting each other. And often times they were fighting each other along ethnic grounds. The Italians and fight the Jews and fight the Irish and that was how it worked. Group of Irish Gangsters surround Meyer Lansky. One day he's walking around with a plate of food covered in foil. He's a young. I think he was 12 or 13 at the time. They don't know exactly. He has a plate. The Irish guys have knives and clubs. They surround him. And demand that he give them the plate and whatever money he had this tiny boy Instead of handing it over, takes the plate, slams it on the ground and shatters it instead of giving it to them and then picks up the biggest shard of it and slashes the throat of the leader of the Irish gang and supposedly wounds a couple others before the rest of the gang descends on him in, beats him within an inch of his life, but didn't give up. And there's another story. This one would shape the rest of the life of Meyer Lansky. I will get that story in just a second. Don't forget we have Significant announcement coming up this week on the show, and I mean significant. So you're gonna want to stick around for that. 8773774373 Jesse at Jesse kelly show dot com email Your love your hate your death.
Curtis Sliwa
Sheldon Silver’s Corruption Conviction Is Partly Overturned
"And then again that is the case of Sheldon silver who was the high man Ross the Meyer Lansky of democratic state politics found guilty on multiple charges of corruption back in twenty eighteen he's still out yesterday a quart reasserted the findings on most of the charges and he's still out and you say no when second I see you have an uneasy Michelle okay I understand why he's in his cell wow this is cool cool cool to put its peak in the trough who stole millions well you tell me how is that possible will become much he knows where all the bones of buried in who bury them just like Rudy says I have insurance Sheldon silver help the point most of the judges most of the key political sure I have all sure that's right he's got insurance so I think there's like a quid pro quo you guilty but we'll end up dying at the at home why it got short commit suicide like Jeffrey are I'll go out of my garden catch this latest Chinese virus that I believe in red China you get from drinking too much corona beer Mexican beer and then you're pissing in the street and spitting in the street and that's how