- He and his gang frequently broke up Nazi rallies that supported Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
- For decades, he was considered one of the most powerful men in the United States.
- After Al Capone was indicted for Tax fraud, Lansky moved much of his earnings to offshore accounts in Switzerland.
- He was so elusive that the FBI gave up monitoring him in the mid 1970's.
- He claimed that he lost most of his money in his operations in Cuba and was barely scraping by in the years after.
- He was portrayed by Anatol Yusef in Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014).
- Born in Poland of Jewish parents. Childhood friend of Lucky Luciano.
- Much as the character Moe Greene in The Godfather (1972) was based on Lansky's associate Bugsy Siegel, the character of Hyman Roth from The Godfather Part II (1974) was based on Lansky.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 486-488. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- Is portrayed by Ben Kingsley in Bugsy (1991).
- He and Siegel formed the Bugs and Meyer Mob in their teens and developed a reputation as one of the most violent gangs in New York.
- Along with Bugsy Siegel, he was instrumental in forming the National Crime Syndicate.
- Became friends with Bugsy Siegel in his teenage years.
- The character of Hyman Roth in "The Godfather" was based on him.
- Attempted to flee to Israel in 1970 to avoid charges of tax evasion but was refused entry.
- Is portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss in Lansky (1999).
- His net worth was twenty million dollars in the fifties but only ten thousand at the time of his death, a fact which shocked his family and which Lansky attributed to his time in Cuba.
- During World War II, Lansky was 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.
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