Originally Posted By: Turnbull

But, as I also posted, Lansky never had his own organization with associates kicking money upstairs to him, the way Mafia Dons prosper.

But didn't even ethnic Jewish gangsters kick up to him? No sense of ethnic community? Were they answering only to Italian families?

Willie Marfeo to Henry Tameleo:

1) "You people want a loaf of bread and you throw the crumbs back. Well, fuck you. I ain't closing down."

2) "Get out of here, old man. Go tell Raymond to go shit in his hat. We're not giving you anything."