Meyer Lansky - Meyer Lansky Maier Suchowljansky (July 4, 1902 - January 15, 1983), better known as Meyer Lansky, was a Russian born gangster of Jewish parents. Lansky's family moved to the United States in 1911, and settled in New York. While Lansky was in school, he met a young Lucky Luciano, who shook down other kids for protection. When Lansky refused to pay, Luciano fought him, but came away impressed with Lansky's toughness, creating a bond that would make them friends for life. Lansky met Bugsy Siegel in 1920. They also became friends for life and, together with Luciano, formed part of what became known as the Five Points Gang. Lansky was instrumental in Luciano's rise to power, when he helped in the killing in 1931 of his.
Joseph Bonanno - Mafia under Don Vito's control. Maranzano began a fight with the man who, until then, led Mafia activities in New York: Joe The Boss Masseria. The war between them became known as the Castellemarese War. Inside their organizations, there were a group of young men who seized their opportunity to get to the top and had them both killed within five months of one another. The group included Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. Before Maranzano died, however, he established a ruling body over Mafia operations, named The Commission. The Commission consisted of five mafia families, and the Bonanno Mafia family was one of them. Bonanno took over what used to be mainly Maranzano's faction. His business interests included such diverse areas as clothing, cheese factories and funeral homes. It.
Joe Adonis - by 1930 Adonis had joined Masseria's troops as well. However, his primary loyalties lay with Luciano, and when Lucky plotted the murder of Masseria, Adonis was one of the four gunmen (Bugsy Siegel, Vito Genovese, and Albert Anastasia were the others) who shot "Joe The Boss" to death at Scarpato's Restaurant in Coney Island on 15 April, 1931. After Luciano eliminated Salvatore Maranzano (Masseria's arch-rival) in a similar manner to establish himself as the country's top mob boss, he went about creating the National Crime Syndicate, which united all the top gangs across the country under its banner. For his part in the hit on Masseria, Adonis was given a seat on the Syndicate's "board of directors". He put many local politicians and high-ranking police officers on his payroll, and shared.
Gangster - gangsters become particularly powerful, they may eventually develop reciprocal relationships with law enforcement they have managed to corrupt. In this situation the police are handsomely paid off, and in exchange they ignore their patron's illicit activites, and may even assist them, by directly taking part in crimes, or by arresting competitors. Today a corruption of the word, "gangsta", has become fashionable in rap music, and no longer necessarily refers to a criminal. Famous individual gangsters include: Al Capone Meyer Lansky John Gotti Yip Kai Koon.
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Abe Reles - of Brooklyn, New York. Growing up in poverty, it wasn't long before he turned to a life of crime. Stories of Jewish gangsters such as Louis Buchalter, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and Dutch Schultz set him on his path of wealth, fame, and ultimately destruction; these men would shape Reles' life and career as his bosses in the Syndicate. Physically, Reles was short, but had long arms that ended in hands with short, stubby fingers. His small size, however, did not at all detract from his ruthless violence. When carrying out hits, his favourite weapon to use was an ice pick (which he would jam through his victim's ear right through to their brain); he became so adept at using it that many a time his assassination victims were deemed to.
Bugsy Siegel - nickname, Bugsy, and wouldn't allow anyone to call him that to his face. Siegel was friends with Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, both of whom came up in the Mafia organizations with him. He became a bootlegger and was associated also to Albert Anastasia during the 1920s. Siegel was used for bootlegging operations in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia. Bugsy had been sent to California by mobsters to try to open a syndicate in the West. There, he became enamored with Hollywood star Virginia Hill and bought a mansion in Beverly Hills. On a return trip to the East, Siegel drove by the then small city of Las Vegas, in Nevada. Legend has it that, at the moment he had a vision of turning this city into a large gambling.
Salvatore Maranzano - their own, but owing ultimate loyalty to him. Maranzano also laid down some rules for the Commission: he 'outlawed' random killings; he prohibited anyone in The Commission from talking about the Mafia or its activities to anyone outside, even if the outsider was just the gangster's wife, and he banned all non-Sicilians from entering the organization. Anyone who broke any of those rules would be punished by death. Maranzano’s scheme, his arrogant treatment of his subordinates, and his fondness for comparing his organization to the Roman Empire did not sit well with Luciano and his ambitious friends, however. Maranzano realized this soon enough, and began planning the murder of Luciano, Genovese, Frank Costello and others. Maranzano did not act quickly enough, however. By the time he hired 'Mad Dog' Coll to.
Shlomo Kleit - Kleit worked to rescue Jews from the Shoah and to bring survivors into the United States from Cuba and possibly other countries. There is some evidence to indicate that the circle of groups and individuals included Hashomer Hatzion, returning war veterans, non-Jewish pilots and engineers and (with inconclusive evidence) mobsters such as Meyer Lansky and (somewhat questionably) Lucky Luciano. Among Kleit's colleagues in Jewish education were Leo Dashefsky, Leah Vevetches, Pesach Simon and Michel Gelbart..
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands - was invited to serve on the board of directors of numerous international corporations. After a 1952 trip with Queen Juliana to the United States, Prince Bernhard was heralded by the media as a business ambassador extraordinaire for the Netherlands. With his global contacts, in May of 1954 he was key in organizing a meeting at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands for the male-only business elite and intellectuals of the Western World to discuss the economic problems in the face of the then growing threat from communism. As a result of the success of this first meeting, it would become an annual affair known as the Bilderberg Group. The idea for the European Union was spawned at Bilderberg. Though generally not reported in the Dutch press, growing strain arose between Queen.
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Mafia - milder judicial treatment), like Tommaso Buscetta. The mafia allegedly retains strong financial influence. Thus, recent investigations usually research the economic movements of suspected members. In recent decades, one of the most famous figures in Italy in the context of mafia has been Toto Riina, supposed to have ordered the murder of the judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Recently, former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti (Democrazia Cristiana) stood judicially accused of relationships with mafia, but was finally cleared. Society Mafia groups in the United States first became influential in the New York City area, gradually progressing from small neighborhood operations to citywide and even international organizations. Five families dominated, named for prominent early members - the Bonanno family, the Colombo family, the Gambino family, the Genovese family, and the Lucchese family..
Murder, Inc. - that specialized in contract killing. It operated from the end of Prohibition until the 1950s. Murder, Inc. was established in New York and initially led by Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and Meyer Lansky, who also supplied the first killers from their gangs of Jewish and Italian gangsters in Brooklyn, New York. Later it was controlled by Louis Buchalter and Albert Anastasia. They reported to higher Syndicate bosses. Most of the killers were recruited from the gangs of Ocean City, Brownsville and East New York. They accepted murder contracts from mob bosses all around the United States. The Murder, Inc. idea was based on the fact that killers would be strangers to the city, and sometimes even their victims, and therefore harder to trace. Police would concentrate on local suspects when killers were.
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Louis Buchalter - So, for help, Buchalter went to an old and good friend: Lucky Luciano. Luciano first arranged the rubout of Maranzano's hated rival, Joe Masseria, using Bugsy Siegel, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, and Albert Anastasia as the executioners; he then engineered the elimination of Maranzano, establishing himself as the top mob boss in New York City. In the early 1930s, Luciano, Buchalter (who had taken on the nickname Lepke, meaning "Little Louis" in Yiddish), and Johnny Torrio (the former Chicago boss and mentor of Al Capone) formed the National Crime Syndicate, an umbrella organization of all major organized crime groups coast-to-coast. As a founding member, and also as a reward for his support of the murders of Masseria and Maranzano, Buchalter obtained a seat on the Syndicate's "board of directors". In order.
Lucky Luciano - wouldn't pay him one or two cents a day for his service would get beaten up. There was one kid who refused to pay, and when Luciano tried to beat him up, the kid gave him a good fight: The kid's name was Meyer Lansky, another legendary mafioso on the making, and who would remain friends with Luciano for life. By 1916, Luciano and his gang the Five Points Gang were suspected by the police as being involved in many murders. Lansky was also a member of that gang, as well as Bugsy Siegel. New York area mafiosos started taking notice, and by 1920, Luciano was working for various gangsters as a bootlegger and meeting such legendary mafiosi as Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. Many old time mafiosi recommended Luciano to.
Giacomo Meyerbeer - Meyerbeer was born to a Jewish family in Vogelsdorf, Germany with the name Yaakov Liebmann Beer. Meyer was the name of this mother's family. In his youth he studied with Antonio Salieri. He was greatly influenced by the early work of Rossini. This Italian influence prompted his choice of his first name. His operas were some of the most popular of the 19th century, but came to be less commonly performed in the 20th century. External Links Meyerbeer Fan Club site at meyerbeer.com.
Alfred Meyer - Alfred Meyer Dr. Alfred Meyer (October 5, 1891 - May 1945) was a Nazi official, achieving the rank of Staatssekretär and Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichministerium für die Besetzten Ostgebiete or Ostministerium). He was born in Göttingen, the son of a government official. He was educated at the Gymnasium in Soest, graduating in 1911. In 1912 he became a Fahnenjunker (cadet officer) with Infanterieregiment 68 (Koblenz), passing his officer exam in 1913. During WW I he fought with Infanterieregiment 363 on the Western Front, winning the Iron Cross twice. In 1917 he was injured and captured by the French. Released in March 1920 he left the army with the rank of Oberleutnant. Post-war he worked for Deutsche Erdöl AG before.
Albert Meyer - Albert Meyer Albert Meyer (March 13, 1870 - October 22, 1953), was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 12, 1929 and handed over office on December 31, 1938. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland. During his office time he held the Department of Home Affairs from 1930 to 1934 and the Department of Finance from 1934 to 1938. He was president of Switzerland in 1936. Predecessor: Robert Haab Successor: Ernst Wetter.
