“Ben Siegel did not invent the luxury resort-casino,” Robert Lacey wrote in Meyer Lansky: The Thinking Man’s Gangster. “He did not found the Las Vegas Strip.

Explore the life of Meyer Lansky, the mastermind of the mafia’s finances, and his understated retirement in Miami Beach’s South Florida lifestyle.

They were supported in the campaign by a diverse and unlikely gang of volunteers, including Bugsy Siegel’s publicist, the mobster Meyer Lansky, Pee-wee Herman’s father and Frank Sinatra ...

These real-life mafia tales expose fascinating facts about how the mob built Las Vegas and what legacy it leaves behind on today’s Strip.

However, a boy named Meyer Lansky passed by and whisked Siegel away from the action. From there, the two became fast friends—sort of.

Among them was Meyer Lansky, dubbed the kingpin of organized crime in America; Arnold Rothstein, known as “The Brain” and considered the pioneer executive of the nation’s crime wave in the ...

Mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel’s murder remains an unsolved case 77 years after he was riddled with bullets in Southern California. In the Northern California city of Vallejo, there’s a ...