Meyer Lansky, gray eminence of organized crime, died of lung cancer at 6 a.m. Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach. He was 80 years old, a legend who laughed off a near- lifetime of ...

Meyer Lansky, the man who organized crime. Along with Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano, Lansky creates a crime 'syndicate', organized and structured to make it as efficient and as profitable as any ...