--In the third charge, Fat Vinnie Teresa, a former New England mafioso turned government stoolie, testified that he delivered $100k from a London casino managed by long-term Lansky associate Vincent (Jimmy Blue Eyes) Alo, to Lansky at his home in Hallandale, FL. But, Lansky's lawyer showed proof that his client was in a Boston hospital on that date, recovering from a hernia operation; and Lansky's surgeon testified that his patient was too weak to have gotten out of bed, flown to Florida to receive the money, and flown back to Boston afterward. Lansky's lawyer asked Teresa how Lansky could have been in two places at the same time. Fat Vinnie, never the most credible witness, replied: "I dunno--maybe he had a double." Lansky was acquitted.
Of course, in his book, Vinnie claimed that he was never Mafioso.
