The Jewish were. LCN learned how to racketeer from Arnold Roethstein and other Jewish gangsters. Also shouldn't be overlooked that around the time the Jews in the syndicate all died off, LCN began to go down the tubes.
"...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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