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...Robert Lacey...
...nearly half a century, Lansky's numbers were his bond. He was, says biographer Robert Lacey, the master of "the share-out," the cash skimmed in the counting rooms of gambling casinos and delivered in tidy, untaxed bundles to silent partners. Some of the scariest, Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, were his friends from bootlegging days on Manhattan's Lower East Side. After the repeal of Prohibition, Lansky moved into organized gambling, where his pals continued to provide the muscle while he supplied the brains...
...that headline writers liked to call the Godfather's Godfather does not live up to his unwanted press. Lacey concludes that Lansky's contribution to American outlawry underwent the usual romanticizing. There is no evidence ; that he sat as some sort of chief comptroller of organized crime. Despite years of FBI investigation and surveillance, no serious charges were ever filed against him. Lansky put together casino deals and handled blood money without getting his hands too dirty. He was even a management consultant who could shape up an operation from the craps in the casino to the crepes that came...
...Teamsters have come a long way in two years. More than 100 leaders have been charged with crimes, and nearly half of them have already quit or been forced out. "I don't think it will ever again be business as usual," says labor reformer Jennik. Or as administrator Lacey puts it, "Who emerges victorious is really not our concern as long as it's done fairly and honestly." In this case, the uncertainty of the outcome is evidence that America's most notorious union is well on the road to democracy...
Most Principled Congressperson Would nobody step forward and accept responsibility for the $500 billion S&L debacle? Wait! Who's that dowdy Representative resigning her seat to atone for Congress's sins? Lacey Davenport, the heart-of-gold legislator from the glorious state of Doonesbury. The grande dame was swept back into office in a write-in campaign...