It was actually Kefauver and Bobby Kennedy who were the catalysts. They laid the framework for ending the control of unions and politicians, limiting the rackets to the streets.


"...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