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Covington, KY, had a long history of being a wide-open pleasure dome for Cincinnatti. Gambling, prostitution and bootleg booze flourished there. And, as in any town in America where vice flowered, organized crime flowered, too. Cleveland's "Mayfield Road Gang" of Moe Dalitz, Sam Tucker and Morris Kleinman (the model for the "Lakeville Road Boys" in GFII), ran several operations in Covington. Also referring to GFII, Hyman Roth mentions "Eddie Levine of Newport" as someone who'd share in his Havana operation after he died. The real-life analog was Eddie Levinson of Covington, KY, who was a partner of Meyer Lansky's.