I forgot to mention they both worked together with the wire service out west, too. As far as anyone knows, it was an amicable set up between NY, Chicago, and the Dragnas. By the time Siegel started falling out of favor with everyone, Roselli had been in prison for some time. Roselli didn't go to Vegas until after Siegel's death


"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea