I didn't even know he owned Rao's until a year or so ago when I read an article about him. RIP. Not a bad actor for a restaurateur. Now I get the "medium rare" irony when he's cooking in prison as Johnny Dio in Goodfellas.

"...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