He's in Florida, basically retired. A threat to no one. Yet he's strangled to death. That wikia article says he was approached by the government to assist in removing Castro, although I'm not sure of their source.


"...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