Little Meyer - Meyer Lansky (1989)

CBS News 60 Minutes: Little Meyer - Meyer Lansky (1989)
For Educational Purposes.

[@lennarthagen3638]

Im a retired Investor living on a pension.

[@lancemorrison8561]

That was a good wife! She loved her husband and would protect him to the end of the world! We should all be so lucky to have a partner like her!

[@vanmoody]

She was pretty sly when talking about Bugsy Seigel's death. Notice she said Myer didn't have anything directly to do with it. What she is really saying is he didn't pull the trigger.

[@ThouSwell-zx3fd]

A charming woman, but utterly delusional.

[@vladimirputinforUSA]

Women like her don’t exist anymore She is exactly how my grandmother was

[@user-cg4us1hg2r]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@degsbabe]

She played it right down to the line. Meyer would never have expected any better. And that smile at the end..? Man , i bet even the interviewer was tempted.....

[@itsjohndell]

Many years ago in Miami Beach he often frequented Wolfie's Delicatessen. Always alone, reading the paper, always the same booth. When I would pass him I would say "Good Morning/Afternoon Mr. Lansky!" "Good(x) young man!" with a smile, and go back to his paper.

[@citypopFM]

That's amazing to be in the presence of a man that legendary.

[@itsjohndell]

@@citypopFM And that was a s close as I wanted to get. Didn't want to appear in an FBI jacket as "Lansky associate"!

[@sgtzomie7877]

When the mob was powerful and respectful

[@toddm9501]

Back when 60 minutes reporters actually reported.

[@rick2340atyahoocom]

And interesting

[@bigh6530]

This video is a gem.

[@justinherbert9146]

I met Meyer Lansky -- I was about 12 years old, and my Dad and I were in the lobby of the Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, and Meyer was sitting on a couch holding his little dog in his lap - so my Dad said hello to him and he was cordial and pleasant - a nice little old Jewish man - we then walked away and when we were out of earshot my Dad told me who Meyer was - one of the most powerful men in the Mafia -- RIP Meyer and Dad

[@bswift5]

I believe you story as he was at this hotel

[@straycatttt2766]

2:40. The expert stated that “the Mafia” was the Italian branch of organized crime but that it’s a misconception to state that Lansky and Jewish mobsters were in the Italian Mafia. So you and your dad were two of the examples when Mrs. Lansky stated how strangers often would greet Meyer.

[@aka-Legendary]

He was a very smart & very RESPECTED man World Wide.

[@douggauzy6258]

Rest in Peace ! Are you serious ? What a Foolish comment ! Don’t work that way cowboy

[@edgiraffr1352]

I know right?! Rest In Peace? How about burn in hell? He was a despicable human piece of garbage!

[@godsangel67able]

Even after death! She kept it classy and honorable about Meyer lansky

[@avibar4574]

“I wish I had a million dollars “ the legend!!! ❤️❤️

[@chuckydall9250]

Extremely smart man!!

[@jamesgardner6320]

My grandfather was in the diamond business in NY in the 30’s. He also owned and operated the jewelry store inside the Thunderbird Hotel from the day it opened in the real early days of Vegas that Litttle Meyer built (and ran). My mom remembers going to fancy formal galas in Vegas back then. She has fond memories of running around having fun with Meyer’s brother Jake’s kids, who were around her age, while daddy and the grownups were dressed up in black tie doing their thing. At 88, my mom still remembers those kids’ names. Turns out my Jewish immigrant grandfather, Jimmy - whose parents emigrated in the late 1800’s from Ukraine and settled in Brownsville, Brooklyn where Jimmy was born around 1904 - would eventually meet the Lanskys and somehow become “involved” with the general activity of the Kosher Nostra, as the Jewish mafia was sometimes called. Jimmy owned auction houses and jewelry stores in Vegas and southern Florida back then. He died of a heart attack on a golf course at the age of 55, so I never knew him. My family, including my mom, were always somehow naive to this entire situation while they lived it. I started asking questions years ago and one day I said, “Mom, your dad was in the mob, or at least closely associated. Didn’t you ever have an idea about this?” Nope, her answer was they were all lovely people and very kind to her and her daddy. She didn’t have a clue. I’m grateful to know more about these people. History like this gives me a glimpse at their humanity and helps me image what it must have been like to be my grandfather and namesake, James Mann.

[@ladyhonor822]

Yeah absolutely beautiful ❤️

[@robertarnold9676]

😊p

[@Nickster_P]

Something tells me that Mr and Mrs Lansky had a fantastic life together, and I bet she would've had some excellent stories to tell off camera, which I'm sure she never told. Old school, with a real charming character.

[@itsjohndell]

Actually she later did two interviews for 60 Minutes. They are here on YT. And yes, she said nothing.

[@straycatttt2766]

@@itsjohndell , this video is from 60 Minutes as the end indicated.

[@SunofYork]

Criminal filth as were all of his apologists

[@anthonyserrano7782]

This is Pure gold.

[@GrayWolf73]

And the man responsible for mentoring Meyer and Lucky? A man you never hear about, Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein.

[@ObamaFromKenya]

@Joseph Forgit Rothstein was murdered at age 46. Lansky lived to 80.

[@angelvalle6515]

@@ObamaFromKenya he mentoring was part of that long life

[@seanohare5488]

True

[@joseluiserrazurizzuniga8809]

The big bankroll

[@twinsboy_3410]

We know about Rothstein.

[@justislaidman9210]

Oh Man, I knew this was gonna be a good one as soon as I saw the thumbnail! Thank you again for another great video🎉 I can’t tell you how much it makes my night when I get off work, come home, make a drink and see that you’ve posted a new 60 minutes video. It makes my day, no joke.

[@sternandrew1]

She's a doll. Meyer was definitely a patriot and clearly provided a "soivice" to his country.

[@alexthompson9516]

A doll, and a moll.

[@big_time9484]

Meyer Lansky's wife appears to be such a fine and knowledgeable woman and also she age very well, during this video she's 81yrs... Wow 😲😳 geeeez...*MOBFAX* "the Boss" at it again 👌👍😉😎...✨🎇

[@josephdasilva4865]

I remember when visiting wolfies in North Miami when I was a kid and my father said that's an important man there and he looked like an old grandpa now I'm 60 and I know who he was

[@juancervantes4085]

I am going to make an educated guess and say (based on the books I have read) that he didn't need to fear anyone. EVERYONE (underworld or legitimate world) knew that if you messed with this man that you would not be alive very long. As Johnny Ola said in Godfather 2, "Hyman Roth always makes money for his friends"! Sharing the wealth was truly the key to his survival and why he was so trusted and respected. A sort of honor among thieves.

[@bobcosmic]

Props to MOBFAX. Meyer Lansky lived it out and out lived his colleagues. One word, Legendary !

[@bobcosmic]

@@lbrambo5623 Really ? I know he died in Miami, Florida.

[@joemazza1652]

Old man Meijer, had an attractive wife back in his day

[@aprylrittenhouse4562]

So a drug pushers and pimp is legendary to you

[@bobcosmic]

@@aprylrittenhouse4562 Yes, the truth is an offence but not a sin so carry on melting and (s)troll on

[@noelharris5488]

@@bobcosmic I lived 2 doors away at The Hemispheres in Hallandale,Fl

[@guestsservices8945]

Absolutely amazing thank you Mobfax

[@smerf123321]

Wow. Great find! Interesting to see her speak so candidly. Also so great footage in here that I haven’t seen in the web before.

[@artieborko4988]

That clip of Meyer testifying about his role in helping the gov with the ports during WWII was awesome! Would love to see a longer version of that! This fuckin’ MobFax is really somethin’.

[@jeremy28135]

👍 Classic Mobster response too

[@Tony-mj5oo]

Meyer was the best of all and he died been the BEST A LEGEND

[@frasertones8519]

You're an idiot Tony. Do you admire the criminals in your neighborhood too? Does that make somebody cool when they break laws?

[@nicklubrino2606]

Meyer Lansky invented money laundering. He was a financial genius.

[@russellsmith2505]

Tremendous content,thank you

[@TheOnlyCoop]

Clearly she knew more, but she would never tell. I can respect that.

[@whatyousay9816]

I heard this video 34 years ago, but still likeit.

[@uuuultra]

Nah

[@citypopFM]

Wow, I have never seen this before. Meyer was such a legend. Thanks again for the upload, Mobfax.

[@arturmachnik4657]

Love this one😊

[@darrenkenway7465]

Bets clip you’ve put on to date 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@MrsCraigJrPhiladelphia]

Thank you Sir ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@riceflatpicking4954]

I could listen to her talk all day. Very classy.

[@rantingintothevoid]

Just find a new york jewish grandma. you can have mine. 😂

[@KenWesaw-up5wf]

So the mafia was just a bunch of nice guys - what a croc

[@mikehunt9884]

died with his shoes off.. that is old school

[@marquettegloves9907]

1:45 Her quotes combined with the voiceover description of these men is like a brilliant comedy sketch. You can't tell me the producers weren't mocking her doing that 😂

[@jaed2630]

Yeah it's like the office

[@lennarthagen3638]

No there were not they wouldnt dare!!!!

[@big_time9484]

Yeah 👍 a brilliant comedy sketch Marquette Gloves... good point 👉☝️😄...✨🎇

[@marquettegloves9907]

​@@RobertIsraelKabakoff you can't be serious. 1:59 the voiceover of a mafia boss convicted of prostitution turned into a cut scene of her saying "he treated a lady like she should be treated". That's as deliberate as it gets, and it's also hilarious.

[@marquettegloves9907]

​@@jaed2630 I'm glad you saw it bro. It passed over the heads of a fair few ppl here 😬

[@jeremy28135]

"I didn't ask who gave the order. Because it had nothing to do with business..." great scene, great actors

[@yanispanagopoulos2429]

MOBFAX,we have no idea who you are,but your the best in my eyes and ears,for what your doing!!! Keep them coming

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

Lucky Luciano though deported to Italy always loved America. When he encountered tourists from the United States visiting Italy he was always happy to talk them about the country he loved.

[@kotvas1]

Respect ❤❤

[@strongislandzfinest23]

@MOBFAX thank you !!!!!

[@Gino20202]

Wow. Unbelievable video. I don’t know how you keep coming with amazing content like this. Just when I think I’ve seen it all, MOBFAX comes thru again. I’ve never seen more than maybe 5 seconds of Meyer talking on video before this.

[@robertgandler3177]

A brilliant man and a mensch!

[@NewTheoryMagazine]

Great video 🍿

[@MK-xe1zd]

True love. I miss those days.

[@onlyhereforjesus2193]

I am glad you posted this video of this clown who is arguably one of the architects of modern Israel. She hated her husband. He delegated his fatherly responsibility to a tutor while she cashed those checks. Lovely lady

[@vanmoody]

"we had bodyguards. we had the FBI." lol

[@stephenspencer4672]

Prohibition was the worst legislative error in American congressional history. It wasn't just a federal law, it was an amendment to the U.S. constitution. The Supreme Court would have loved to get rid of it. Our government opened the door for Organized Crime to walk into the big time. We are still dealing with this a century later.

[@adamgordon3990]

If we legalized all drugs, the cartels in Mexico would take a big hit.

[@nicklubrino2606]

There was already the Italian mafia in Italy. If not bootlegging, they would have eventually gotten involved with narcotics, such as cocaine, then, branch off to gambling and extortion.

[@cks7372]

Im getting to like this channel, you got great news about the old mobsters!👌

[@killerfrank8974]

Never knew this existed!!!

[@DanielMulloy-bg6gw]

Myer Lansky and Luciano..... All those originals really had honor..... They were gentleman gangsters.

[@ThoughtPolice007]

for such a rich man his handicapped son died penniless in a state hospital

[@jamessantagati4999]

He lived at the Harbour House South in Bal Harbour when I worked there in 1974-75.

[@bradybrapples]

he didn't need protection because anybody dumb enough to touch someone that mobbed up wouldn't be long for this world

[@nicklubrino2606]

Frank Pantangeli had every reason for taking him out.

[@etubrutus3501]

The FBI was going to frame him?? There’s a shocker!

[@richardhoff1626]

All nice guys. No lady, they were killers. Their only loyalty was to their wallets.

[@seanohare5488]

Definitely

[@obedirect5491]

Wifey lived a delusional life, clutching her pearls, feasting on caviar.

[@sal4856]

Like the CIA Dept of Justice and military industrial complex

[@ji5340]

I rather live by these guys than the rift raft carjacking, assaulting and terrorizing hard working people

[@demejiuk5660]

Crime is just like any other business it’s a people based business meaning the most successful criminals needed people skills. I’m sure the majority of them were charming and charismatic. If you weren’t an enemy of theirs I doubt you’d ever see their dark side. They’d come across as great guys. Being a killer or a criminal doesn’t mean you don’t have manners, you don’t have respect, you don’t have charm. Those things probably make you an even better criminal.

[@michaelwilks6268]

I like her style she's one of those old school chcks that knows, but won't tell, I like that, I like that.

[@N.M.T.K]

LANSKY. Director by Martin Scorsese. 🎥

[@matthewche]

Produced by Lowell Bergman who was later portrayed by Pacino in The Insider.

[@christopherberryhill3802]

It's widely known that Meyer's word was as good as cash. His partners never had any professional reason to kill him because he was worth more alive. RIP Mr Lansky. ✌

[@itsjohndell]

Exactly right. And they never knew what he left behind. He was smarter than all of them.

[@the_local_bigamist]

No mention yet of the deal at the docks being crucial in establishing the 'French Connection'. Of course Italian-American mobsters try the BS line that they didn't touch narcotics, but Luciano had heroin processing plants in Sicily and with the Corsican and Marseilles mobsters - who aided their own state security services by strike-breaking and terrorising labour organisers/communists - moved the gear into the ports in the USA. The drugs were distributed in the ghettos and so there could be some level of plausible deniability on the part of the Italian-Americans, but many of them got rich off of it and any of these former mobsters who try and say that they weren't into it are lying to you, even if they weren't personally. How could they allow the most profitable racket in the country to profit without them at the very least taxing it? Anyway, interesting vid - Lansky was fascinating and due to his nature of keeping things on the DL, he flew under the radar and not as many people know who he is, but he was a crucial player of course.

[@StevenTorrey]

I remember a line from the film Dillinger. Dillinger goes to Frank Nitti for something. Frank Nitti says: "I see by your last bank robbery, you got something like $75,000. We [the Chicago Mob] takes in that much every day." Whatever Capone was, whatever Lansky was, whatever Rothstein was--they ended up using good business principals to maintain and increase their business.

[@StevenTorrey]

The movie Dillinger is not gnerally regarded as accurate.

[@Goodfella1960]

Dillinger never knew Nitti. That's just plain stupid.

[@StevenTorrey]

You are right. There was no meeting, it was a piece of Hollywood Hokum. But the line simply points out a reality of Capone's business acumen.

[@StevenTorrey]

@@Goodfella1960 You are right. There was no meeting, it was a piece of Hollywood Hokum. But the line simply points out a reality of Capone's business acumen.

[@travishendrix7026]

There was no way the mob took out Bugsy without Lanskys approval.

[@citypopFM]

He relented to it. He had already gotten Siegel off the hook but Siegel was still fucking up, and it was over for him. Whether Siegel was still skimming or just ignorant to the fact the contractors were gleefully ripping him off, the mob had enough and Lansky had to go with it.

[@travishendrix7026]

@@citypopFM Yeah, I read where Lansky said that if Bugsy would have listened to him it would not have happened to him.

[@adamgordon3990]

@@citypopFM That's pretty much how it was portrayed in the movie "Bugsy". Ben Kingsley as Lansky & Warren Beatty as Bugsy was good casting.

[@anthonya2349]

He didn't ask, he didn't ask who gave the order, it was business.

[@yomama412]

ANOTHER GOOD ONE MOE…

[@StevenTorrey]

The narrator is Harry Reasoner.

[@tomfields3682]

Hardly Reasonable 😉

[@nateg9770]

When she said he died in bed with his shoe's off, that got me because it's rare in Cosa nostra. It made me think of another mobster who asked to take his shoes off before being shot so his wife would know he was thinking of her and that it's alright because that's the life he chose. You have to respect that regardless of what they have done.

[@citypopFM]

Johnny Keys, a capo in the Philly family. Sammy told the story and it was even dramatized in the TV movie, Witness to the Mob.

[@nateg9770]

@@citypopFM exactly who I was talking about. 👍🙋‍♂️

[@jasonhutter7534]

@@citypopFM That's the one story from Sammy's book that I remember. You have to be touched that even a nasty mobster was thinking about his wife at the end.

[@laaguilaboxing7383]

Fuck them lmao let them rest in piss

[@gavinbrando8255]

'You're gonna break your eardrums!!!'

[@j.a.emmanueltemplemann5627]

Great Man.

[@ladyhonor822]

RIP Angel AMEN Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲☦️🙏😇❤️💋

[@MrGreen-dp4oz]

She's a ride or die wife. He was so intelligent, one of a kind. He could of been successful in anything

[@markpalmer7832]

Once had a friend say she met him when she was child.

[@severino1108]

A little guy with big balls very smart , fought the federal and he won!!

[@steveng8727]

His wife should do ASMR videos w/ that voice LOL YIKES😂

[@21stCenturyTemplar.]

You can see that even at age 81 that without even seeing pictures of her in younger years that Lansky his wife was and is a very beautiful woman!

[@jimmydrums9217]

A true moll.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

The government always goes after the best businessman.

[@marcdavis2745]

Bruiser was Adorable

[@TheRetirednavy92]

Kept it under cover. Love that guy.

[@hawlikd]

She is so out to lunch the people she rolled with.

[@juancervantes4085]

" Hyman Roth always makes money for his friends"!

[@nicklubrino2606]

I was watching the bio channel featuring Meyer Lansky. A Jewish gangster who retired in Florida, tried to immigrate to Israel and built a casino in Cuba. It finally hit me. Hey, that’s Hyman Roth of Godfather II.

[@orion000]

Is this the same guy that started the weenie company? Oscar Meyer?

[@papadre70]

And some folks claim that they are innocent of doing Wickedness 🙄

[@jennifersman7990]

I wonder if she saw Ben Kingsley’s portrayal of Lansky in Bugsy? That seemed a more accurate characterization of Meyer

[@whatyousay9816]

they couldn't get Luciano with anything so they got him on the "oldest profession in the world."

[@PohTrain]

GOAT

[@ellymzera2457]

When organized crime became organized😂

[@stevemace1725]

Strange how today's politics took these practices out of the mobsters play book.

[@TranscendianIntendor]

American Italians that had gained power through legislation that kept gambling and prostitution illegal had strong reasons to love their country since it offered for their children great lives. Inherited wealth is through time the way to become more wealthy than your peers. The wealthy insurers of Greek ships could have helped the Greek government out but chose not to whereas the corrupt wealthy of Ukraine appear to have stepped in to provide the Ukrainian government help. Why would Ukrainian mobsters or any business persons want to be part of Baby Stalin's country after seeing how Putin treated his Oligarchs?

[@jkbzz]

Great observation.

[@jayrush4076]

MOB FAX THE 🐐🔥🔥🔥

[@jasonblankenship8274]

The Little Man#2

[@alanstrong55]

No reporting like that of Harry Reasoner. ABC News was better with Harry.

[@buckeyeschmave]

Harry basically recounted the plot of Godfather II halfway through the segment!

[@tkso.philly-7868]

A lot of people do not know that John Miller reporter, was Meyer lansky's God's son-

[@jasonpanelli4446]

Actually it wasn’t Lansky.Frank Costello’s wife was Miller’s godmother.

[@seanohare5488]

Never new that

[@christined8789]

No kidding?​@@jasonpanelli4446

[@vitorodriguez256]

His wife is more of a GANGSTA then he. BRAVO!! KUDOS!!

[@lawrencelewis2592]

I read a book about him called "Little Man" written about 25 years ago. If he had that money, I doubt that his handicapped son would have died in a Miami welfare hospital.

[@surfside16]

I read that book as well. Captivating.

[@seanohare5488]

Yeah what was so great about lansky there about his son

[@slumpedg2808]

He did have that money but they knew it was illegal money lmfao them fines robbed them blind

[@Ste2023]

they payed off , police, officials OFF with cash .

[@fredfuller2281]

rip SAMUEL BROWN 1979 August

[@citypopradioFM]

Lansky was an example of an old school gangster who did it right. He wasn't in the business of violence but rather in the life for making money. These guys of his era grew up in abject poverty with nil opportunities in life, but they used the streets to be big somebodies with their brains and guts with little else to lose. They saw their parents and relatives immigrate here to work 10-15 hours a day, every day, only to stay poor, and they sought to do something better than that. One has to admire that being discriminated minorities with little chances to succeed by making their own luck, so to speak.

[@gmh471]

Now, that's what they used to call a "broad." Frankly, I thought Reasoner's reporting and interview were not very good.

[@63mckenzie]

I always wondered why Joe Pesci never played him in an biographical movies about him. They are very similar.

[@nicklubrino2606]

Joe Pesci is at his best playing wild, crazy Italian gangsters.

[@jakescorpion1]

She was obviously well taken care of...

[@caseysmith2416]

She is such a sweet women

[@seanohare5488]

Ugh

[@votebritish]

She was a real gangster's moll,straight from the street.