That said, I think the Luciano/Costello/Lansky triumvirate was the most intelligent in the history of organized crime.
Cosign. Two heads are often smarter than one. And three is even smarter.
For me though, the core brain of it all was binary: Luciano/Lansky.
That's true the brain was Luciano/Lansky/Costello
But the perfect balance of Lansky with the finance, Costello with the police corruption and political protection, Genovese with the muscle and Luciano as the unique puzzle piece to fit them all together to create that perfect balance that was never duplicated.
