Yes, but he needed to show his money. What good is money if you can't use it? The main reason people don't have a lot of sympathy for Lansky is because of this fact. His family suffered greatly. His son Buddy had cerebral palsy and needed constant care. That guy starved himself to death at a beat up medical facility. You know what's crazy though? Meyer's brother Jake died about eight months after Meyer died, and when Meyer's family came for the money Meyer had transferred to his brother, Jake's wife refused and claimed the money was hers. To this day, the descendants of Jake Lansky are multi-millionaires.