Meyer Lansky person
also: Lenski, Lansky, Mayor Lansky, Rosenthal guy
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Claims (26)
Lou Chesler front_for
Meyer Lansky documented
“The White's Out of Context Industries in 85, Harold White was doing real estate deals with People's Savings and also a key Bistain restaurant owner named Donald Berg. Berg was an associate of Richard Nixon's banker, B.B. Roboso, and of Lou …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 20:38
Sam Cohen member_of
Meyer Lansky documented
“This begins in 1971 when 23-year-old Ray Corona returned to Miami to start his banking career at Miami National Bank. At the time, this bank was controlled by Sam Cohen, an associate of mob financier Meyer Lansky. Cohen was indicted in 71 a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 20:30
Meyer Lansky member_of
Office of Naval Intelligence host_asserted
“What Bridget just said, another gobsmacking moment, was Mayor Lansky, Florida and Las Vegas, was he a CIA asset? So he worked, obviously he worked with the Navy. I don't know if you know his story, but he worked with the Office of Naval Int…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 1:09:49
Meyer Lansky laundered_money_for
Vito Rizzuto host_asserted
“Risotto traveled regularly back and forth between Italy and Venezuela. Quintero went to see Meyer Lansky in Rome. The two men were already had met in Toronto. This time he solicited Lansky's counsel on laundering the profits from the drug c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:14:26
Frank Wisner recruited
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 36:38
James Jesus Angleton recruited
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 36:38
Castle Bank & Trust laundered_money_for
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“which laundered funds for both the CIA and organized crime. Castle Bank was only one in a series of banks in this role. It had complex links to Nugent Hand Bank in Australia, which we've covered extensively, and Washington banker George Olm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 40:09
Meyer Lansky laundered_money_for
Flamingo Hotel documented
“which apparently is this common thing that you and I don't get. I promise I won't break the law anymore if you forgive me for breaking the law this time. That only goes to the crooks. Also in 1971, a Sarowitz aide, Jerry Gordon, was indicte…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 43:34
Meyer Lansky member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“Thanks to Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficani and a few others, they definitely got involved in it. And yes, Meyer Lansky was part and parcel of this whole operation. They work as the, so technically you can think of them as the domestic CIA.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 1:10:42
Alvin Malnick member_of
Meyer Lansky book_quoted
“Others believe he faked his death and fled the country. The Houston Post found that Florida mob associate Malvin Malnick, the protege of Meyer Lansky, had invested some money with Baker, but it turned out to be not a lot of money, and one o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 37:41
Meyer Lansky member_of
Mafia caller_asserted
“The Stardust. That's where that Rosenthal guy, he had a sports book at the Sahara. I mean, this whole town was ran by mobs. My ex-husband was from Shaker Heights and he's Jewish. And his father came over from Russia, supposedly in the early…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 1:22:52
Meyer Lansky trafficked
General Development Corporation book_quoted
“However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 36:38
James Jesus Angleton recruited
Meyer Lansky documented
“by publishing CIA-vetted literature, and by eliminating the intellectuals and leaders who espounded these ideas. One day shortly after Fidel Castro took over power in Havana, Angleton had a brainstorm. He summoned two Jewish CIA officers, i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 56:17
Bank of New York leased
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“of Paul Dorfman and Alan Dorfman. The National City Bank itself had once leased its racetrack in Havana, which they lost to Castro, and also through a subsidiary, the Hotel Nacional in Cuba, the casino, which they leased to Meyer Lansky of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:18:32
John Hauser laundered_money_for
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“where his fellow directors included Joseph Benz of U.S. Life. Benz was also involved in the Bahama land deals and speculations of Meyer Lansky's business partner, Lou Chesler. Also involved was John Hauser, an intelligence officer from the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:20:25
Paul Helliwell laundered_money_for
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“Defense Force and allowed the use of their sea and airports in Thailand for the transportation of all of these drugs. And that's where we spent $35 million, bribing all of those people. But for years, Heliwell was also a legal counsel to Me…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 39:09
Meyer Lansky member_of
CIA host_asserted
“which had a big stake in the future of drug traffic and how the outcome of the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek arrangements. These figures in turn played a central role and had deep connections to U.S. intelligence, meaning the CIA. No one was bett…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 52:25
Meyer Lansky member_of
Iraq Intelligence Commission caller_asserted
“Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello and Meyer Lansky ran the commission. And as the colonel said that Lucky Luciano was bailed out of prison to help overthrow the Italian government to retain a American friendly leader. So, yes, it's all connecte…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:48:45
Roy Cohn member_of
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“And just looking to his mentor, Roy Cohn was. The Blue Room, the Plaza, who was, I mean, literally, Roy Cohn was involved in the Lansky group, the kosher-nostra blackmailing Hoover, who was a cross-dressing homosexual in the first place. Th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 1:29:00
Meyer Lansky appointed
Resorts International host_asserted
“and was a very close friend of Resorts International president and founder James Crosby. There was also the Meyer Lansky. Meyer Lansky was basically hired to run the casinos, the mafia guy. So there is also Resorts International set up its …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 1 @ 56:14
Paul Helliwell associated_with
Meyer Lansky host_asserted
“but describes him only as a lawyer. Imagine talking about Paul Hellywell and only listing him as a lawyer. Ignoring this significant relationship he developed with organized crime, including Meyer Lansky's bank. Furthermore, while confirmin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 2:51
Meyer Lansky carried_out_attack
Operation Husky host_asserted
“And naturally, they blame it on the old families. And what do they do? The FBI, oh, we're opening up a new task force. And what does that do? It wipes out a lot of the old apparatus. But the apparatus over in Chicago survived. The outfit ov…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 2:19:08
Meyer Lansky member_of
1001 Club host_asserted
“Let's see. It was alleged that Mafia boss Meyer Lansky was a member of the 1001 Club, which was not true, although Lansky did work with four Mossad agents and 1001 Club member Tiber Rosenbaum. Tiber Rosenbaum was a very good friend of Princ…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Wildlife Fund - Africa- Erik Prince (Redo) @ 1:36:34
Meyer Lansky member_of
Italian Mafia caller_asserted
“Well, and Jeff, that's a fantastic and very important point you bring up. And how they did it by playing neutral, they set up a money laundering ability that actually used the Israeli mafia through Meyer Lansky and the Italian mafia, who he…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:47:01
Meyer Lansky member_of
Israeli mafia caller_asserted
“Well, and Jeff, that's a fantastic and very important point you bring up. And how they did it by playing neutral, they set up a money laundering ability that actually used the Israeli mafia through Meyer Lansky and the Italian mafia, who he…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:47:01
Meyer Lansky funded
Switzerland caller_asserted
“gave way to the Israeli Swiss bank, and that was funded by Lenski Crime Syndicate money. You follow that bank through all of this stuff, and it'll link through all of these things, including how they moved those scientists and how that bank…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:47:49
Mentions (49)
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Well, and Jeff, that's a fantastic and very important point you bring up. And how they did it by playing neutral, they set up a money laundering ability that actually used the Israeli mafia through Meyer Lansky and the Italian mafia, who he…
▶ 1:47:21
They said that he was the godfather that was never named. And if there was any Italian mafia godfather they wanted gone, Meyer Lansky got close to them, got inside their funds, and they got nailed or they got taken out. He had an entire cri…
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gave way to the Israeli Swiss bank, and that was funded by Lenski Crime Syndicate money. You follow that bank through all of this stuff, and it'll link through all of these things, including how they moved those scientists and how that bank…
▶ 1:48:15
That's so true what you said about Meyer Lansky and his involvement with Copacabana in Cuba with the Riviera Hotel before Fidel Castro took over in 59. Santo Traficante was the main black, dark intelligence figure of the mafia in that era. …
▶ 1:29:00
And just looking to his mentor, Roy Cohn was. The Blue Room, the Plaza, who was, I mean, literally, Roy Cohn was involved in the Lansky group, the kosher-nostra blackmailing Hoover, who was a cross-dressing homosexual in the first place. Th…
▶ 8:23
was very much against getting into the drug trade. They thought it was beneath them. So you had Lucky Luciana and Meyer Lansky and Paul Helliwell decided that they were all going to open a bank called Castle Bank in the Bahamas. And Paul He…
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And he created a thing called the Commission with Meyer Lansky. The Commission eventually governed organized crime activity in the United States. It took basically so that, you know, there was a lot of in-house killing back and forth. So th…
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And Lucky Luciano's reappearance in Italy aids in that reestablishment because he's basically now viewed as a wartime hero as well. So in October of 1946, and this is very important, Lucky traveled to Cuba where he met Frank Costello, Vito …
▶ 1:36:34
Let's see. It was alleged that Mafia boss Meyer Lansky was a member of the 1001 Club, which was not true, although Lansky did work with four Mossad agents and 1001 Club member Tiber Rosenbaum. Tiber Rosenbaum was a very good friend of Princ…
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but describes him only as a lawyer. Imagine talking about Paul Hellywell and only listing him as a lawyer. Ignoring this significant relationship he developed with organized crime, including Meyer Lansky's bank. Furthermore, while confirmin…
▶ 1:18:32
of Paul Dorfman and Alan Dorfman. The National City Bank itself had once leased its racetrack in Havana, which they lost to Castro, and also through a subsidiary, the Hotel Nacional in Cuba, the casino, which they leased to Meyer Lansky of …
▶ 1:20:25
where his fellow directors included Joseph Benz of U.S. Life. Benz was also involved in the Bahama land deals and speculations of Meyer Lansky's business partner, Lou Chesler. Also involved was John Hauser, an intelligence officer from the …
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The Miami National Bank was identified in 1960 as having served between, let's see, 1963 and 67 as a conduit which hot syndicate money, meaning money to be laundered, by Meyer Lansky and his couriers was laundered through the interlocking e…
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had a wealthy syndicate league that a guy by the name of Mike Coppola was investing in Florida real estate for the syndicate. He said that he had a company called General Development Corporation that Meyer Lansky's business associates blew.…
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a hotel casino that everybody believed at the time was controlled by Jimmy Hoffa. The same associations, if they were exposed, might cast a light on unexplained 1968 business trip to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia of Santo Trafficani, who was…
▶ 1:26:16
that was intimately involved in the drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. Trapacani had been preceded in 1965 by John Pullman, Meyer Lansky's courier to the Miami National Bank. And in April 1965, Pullman visited a hotel in Hong Kong where th…
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with oil prominent in the overt level and the mob and drug links at a deeper covert level, oftentimes play reoccurring roles in this story. For example, there is a striking continuity between the activities of Paul Helliwell of the OSS, the…
▶ 39:09
Defense Force and allowed the use of their sea and airports in Thailand for the transportation of all of these drugs. And that's where we spent $35 million, bribing all of those people. But for years, Heliwell was also a legal counsel to Me…
▶ 39:37
While representing Thailand, and I just mentioned that he was the official Thai consul in Miami, at a time when KMT money from Thailand and Burma came via Hong Kong to be washed through Meyer Lansky's properties. Money laundering. Still lat…
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Once the CIA, not even the CIA at the time, the U.S. interest around this began, also drew people like Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano. These contacts with the U.S. mob were apparently not wholly broken by World War II. They were clearly ren…
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as one of the small group of FBN officials who used their knowledge of the drug world to create mobsters, to recruit mobsters for intelligence purposes. A key example was Williams' former subordinate, George White, who, with the aid of Meye…
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which had a big stake in the future of drug traffic and how the outcome of the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek arrangements. These figures in turn played a central role and had deep connections to U.S. intelligence, meaning the CIA. No one was bett…
▶ 1:14:26
Risotto traveled regularly back and forth between Italy and Venezuela. Quintero went to see Meyer Lansky in Rome. The two men were already had met in Toronto. This time he solicited Lansky's counsel on laundering the profits from the drug c…
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The White's Out of Context Industries in 85, Harold White was doing real estate deals with People's Savings and also a key Bistain restaurant owner named Donald Berg. Berg was an associate of Richard Nixon's banker, B.B. Roboso, and of Lou …
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telephone book. Berg also told Newsday that he was well acquainted with Chesler. Berg and Roboso, along with former U.S. Senator George Smather's brother, formed Cape Florida Development Company, in which Richard Nixon invested. In a book c…
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In 82, Skinner pled guilty to two misdemeanors in the so-called Outrigger scandal involving loans to organized crime associates from the Miami National Bank, the bank formerly controlled by Lansky's associate in which Ray Corona got his sta…
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involved in Resorts International, which was a mafia casino with ties to Meyer Lansky. Lazar had also purchased shares from Resort International predecessor company, Mary Carter Paints, which was a CIA front. What's more, Lazar was an assoc…
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who also owned stock in Resorts International and had accounts at Castle Bank too. Lasser was called the head of the California LSD market. Finally, Lasser had worked for Louis Chesler. Uncle Lou is what he was referred to. He was one of th…
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start up the gambling in the Bahamas after the mob was kicked out of Cuba. Another of Chesler's casino partners was Wallace Groves, a mobster, convicted felon, and Lansky associate who had been on the CIA's payroll from 1965 to 1972. He was…
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Others believe he faked his death and fled the country. The Houston Post found that Florida mob associate Malvin Malnick, the protege of Meyer Lansky, had invested some money with Baker, but it turned out to be not a lot of money, and one o…
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which apparently is this common thing that you and I don't get. I promise I won't break the law anymore if you forgive me for breaking the law this time. That only goes to the crooks. Also in 1971, a Sarowitz aide, Jerry Gordon, was indicte…
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Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. The charges against Gordon were dropped when he turned state's evidence and he continued to work at Caesars. Caesars and Perlman then got into a great deal of hot water because their business dealings with Alvin…
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Texas Secretary of State in 1985 shows that Victor Roger was a director of Caesar's Palace. One of his fellow officers and director included Harry Wald and Albert Basito, who were charged with SEC violations along with the others. The recor…
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and was a very close friend of Resorts International president and founder James Crosby. There was also the Meyer Lansky. Meyer Lansky was basically hired to run the casinos, the mafia guy. So there is also Resorts International set up its …
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I was in the space with you. And yes, I did go through it. Yeah. That, that was one of the reasons why I wanted to bring that up too. And also like Howard Hughes had the gaming license, but Trump could never get when Steve Wynn kept blockin…
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by publishing CIA-vetted literature, and by eliminating the intellectuals and leaders who espounded these ideas. One day shortly after Fidel Castro took over power in Havana, Angleton had a brainstorm. He summoned two Jewish CIA officers, i…
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the organized crime chief financial officer who had been forced to flee Havana ahead of Castro's revolutionaries, leaving behind the mafia's highly lucrative casino empire. Lansky was part of the Jewish mob, but had close business ties to t…
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Angleton's emissaries met with Lansky, but the crime mogul drove too hard a bargain for his services and the deal fell through. It was only the beginning of the CIA's endless quest to kill Castro. Castro would never stop haunting the dreams…
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being involved with the mafia and working directly with Meyer Lansky and everything. On the one hand, I believe it. On the other hand, to a lot of people out there, that's a wild claim. I mean, particularly prior to, you know, some of the l…
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A certain recent Sicilian immigrant who landed there a couple years ago after being pardoned for work with the United States Navy. Meyer Lansky? No, no, I was thinking Lucky Luciano. You're right. I'm sorry. I got the wrong one. There's so …
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What Bridget just said, another gobsmacking moment, was Mayor Lansky, Florida and Las Vegas, was he a CIA asset? So he worked, obviously he worked with the Navy. I don't know if you know his story, but he worked with the Office of Naval Int…
▶ 1:10:42
Thanks to Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficani and a few others, they definitely got involved in it. And yes, Meyer Lansky was part and parcel of this whole operation. They work as the, so technically you can think of them as the domestic CIA.…
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This begins in 1971 when 23-year-old Ray Corona returned to Miami to start his banking career at Miami National Bank. At the time, this bank was controlled by Sam Cohen, an associate of mob financier Meyer Lansky. Cohen was indicted in 71 a…
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Kavanaugh, according to the Miami Herald, was a controversial outfit that sold Florida swampland in the 70s and tried unsuccessfully to get a casino built down there. Klein also was connected to organized crime figures in Philadelphia. One …
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and a two-acre track in Atlantic City that Polulo wanted to develop as a casino. To that purpose, Polulo had made an agreement with Resorts International, which was a casino company linked to Meyer Lansky, the mob. Like any good mobster, wh…
▶ 1:47
eliminate the Corsican Mafia, ensuring that the CIA's preferred mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, got sole distribution of drugs not only into Europe, but also into the United States. So, no, they weren't tricked into anything. It's a well-establi…
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I just find that laughable. During Prohibition, Luciano and Lansky gained control of the New York docks and longshoremen unions by means of muscle and blood and ran all kinds of contraband, liquor from Canada and other things. So he goes on…
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However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working …
▶ 2:19:08
And naturally, they blame it on the old families. And what do they do? The FBI, oh, we're opening up a new task force. And what does that do? It wipes out a lot of the old apparatus. But the apparatus over in Chicago survived. The outfit ov…