‘Lansky’ obscures the reality of a money-mad man gone wrong

Unlike other, less-fortunate organized crime figures, mob financier Meyer Lansky died the way many ordinary people do, succumbing to lung cancer at 80. He was a father and grandfather who lived on Miami Beach and favored the deli food at Wolfie’s. Ask and he’d tell you how he attacked Nazi sympathizers in New York in the 1930s and raised millions for the fledging state of Israel when Golda Meir ...