#264 | Meyer Lansky: The Mafia's Accountant
English Learning for Curious Minds
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The Man Who Crapped Out
Lansky's business arrangement with Batista would last for ten years. After the revolution in 19 59, when fidel castro took power and the country became communist, all american owned businesses were nationalized. It is estimated lansky lost around seven million dollars at the time, approximately forty four million uros in today's money. Losing everything in cuba, lansky had no choice but to move back to the us. He was put under surveillance, under watch, by the tax authorities for suspected income tax fraud. Eventually he decided to sell all his business interests, leave America and moved to israel on a law of return programm. However, given lansky's criminal
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