"Milwaukee Phil" was involved with the torture of Billy McCarthy, where McCarthy's head was put in a vice and his eyeball was popped out, the basis for the Casino scene. McCarthy and another guy had killed a few outfit members.

"...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