Someone here made a good point that Pesci allowed them to throw his name around to secure the financing. Now that they have it, he's bailing, staying retired.
"...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
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