Yeah, he lied about absolutely everything. His name was actually Dorothy and he was in Kansas the whole time. The whole thing with the Vario crew and Jimmy Burke was all a dream after he hit his head during a tornado.
"...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
