He was.

I'm being mostly facetious. He was the best of a bad lot in LA. It was Roselli then him.

I can hear Knoxville's voice. "You're going to walk straight in this town!".

"...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