I STRONGLY suggest that you read "Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life," by Robert Lacey. It's hands down the BEST book ever written about Lansky, and one of the two or three best mob biographies ever written.

You'll come away believing, like I do, as do many serious mob researchers and historians, that Lansky didn't have nearly as much money as the Feds believed that he had. Now he certainly wasn't broke, but he didn't leave much behind at all.