http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morton10 It has gained worldwide recognition for being the choice location to buy clothes for musicians including Roy Orbison, Isaac Hayes, and Elvis Presley . The young man gave Meyer one key bit of advice after thanking him for saving his life. "On July 5, 1950, the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, enacted item 5710-1950 the Law of Return. (Larry Luxner) That elicited a few chuckles from these two wisecracking Jewboys, but what really intrigued us was another marker several blocks up Beale Street honoring "Lansky Brothers . Sheinbein applealed to the Israeli Supreme Court that he not be extradited back to Maryland for trial. The implications and irony of the Lansky ruling remain. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054535.html Maier Suchowljansky, born in 1902, came to The United States in 1911. His following was immense. He was nearly tapped out. The sensational story has divided the American Orthodox community with Chabad on Rubashkin's side and a divided Orthodox Union on the other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Burg29 "15 The Jew who fought back was a new kind of Jew to many of them. Due to the important issues involved the full court of five Judges heard the case led by chief Justice Shimon Agranat. He was accused many times of many things and convicted of nothing. He arose early, before 7:00am, and took Bruiser out for a walk along the waterfront. "Lansky was taken to the Miami Strike Force offices where he was fingerprinted, and charged with two indictments, one a felony, one a misdemeanor, for possession of barbiturates and unlabeled drugs without a prescription. Little man, Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life, Robert Lacey, Little Brown and Co., 1991. Max and Yetta chose differently, as did most Russian Jewish refugees. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E2D6143CF933A15752C1A96F95826023 In the American public's mind, refusing to testify became confused with being tried in court by the rules of evidence and law with being guilty.21. Majer's parents, Max and Yetta, left Grodno for the American Promised Land. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292903303&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054535.html Little man, Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life, Robert Lacey, Little Brown and Co., 1991. pg. Little by little, he developed a circle of friends, through Doc Stacher, a former friend and business associate who had been deported to Palestine in 1946. The Godfather novel was a major hit, the government was searching for any excuse to prosecute or harass him. The British, the Arab world, the Palestinian Arab, many of whom had recently migrated, like the returning Jew to Palestine seeking personal opportunity, were intent on once again denying the Jew the right of self determination. Though never much more than talk and preliminary consideration, the threat to kill Hitler alarmed Hebert Hoover. 2. Ibid. Max came first, about 1909, slaving and saving to accumulate the money needed to bring Yetta and his two sons to America in 1911. By the end of 1971, though Dr. Burg had renewed Meyer's visa, the public issue of Meyer Lansky was a situation that involved the entire Israeli government. One day, my dad saw a young white man enter the store. The Jewish Italian connection had worked its magic. He was in Rome, involved with an Italian countess when Hermann Goering arrived for a meeting with the Italian fascist leader, Mussolini. The Reader's Digest public conviction was based more upon a bad reputation and associations than hard fact. "Balad is an Arab Nationalist party founded by Israeli Arabs in 1995. It was an age of duplicitous hypocrisy, in many ways not unlike contemporary society. Pg. We followed him back to the store, where he handed each of us autographed copies of his souvenir book, titled simply Lansky Brothers: Clothier to the King. 14. His footstone reads modestly, "Meyer Lansky 1902 -1983", a Star of David serves as the dash between the dates. Section 2(b)(2) was added to deny the automatic right of return under certain circumstances. It was a life of long time associations made on the tough streets of New York. However, the bans on both parties were overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court. Elvis is our tourism business. Lanskys good side, at least according to the film, consisted of fighting Nazis, and also providing crucial support to Israel at the outset of its existence. Lansky answered. He was strictly involved in money and its 'management' for himself and his associates. Bach responded by agreeing that this argument was legally correct in a courtroom situation, when it came to deciding what evidence might properly be considered by a judge or jury. He was further satisfied that drugs, prostitution and violence had not been avenues of Lansky's entrepreneurial direction. Years later Gabriel Bach was appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court. Men such as Bugsy Siegel1 and Lucky Luciano2 were among his closest associates. (b) An oleh's visa shall be granted to every Jew who has expressed his desire to settle in Israel, unless the Minister of Immigration is satisfied that the applicant They ran candidates for the Israeli Knesset starting in 1999. Ibid. They struggled amidst their own, physically trapped between the Italians and the Irish. Meyer Lansky was a Polish Jew who immigrated with his parents to New York's Lower East Side in 1911. 332-333, 13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return35 The entire affair and help that Lansky provided American defense was hidden. No trace has ever been found of the millions that Hank Messick claimed he had had. He loved a good fight. One man scoffed that Lansky's money couldn't possibly have come from her own career, suggesting that her wealth somehow had to come from Meyer Lansky, whose secretive finances have long been. Meyer's crime normally would have been a misdemeanor; it was technically classified as a felony. Incorrect password. American security used Lansky to contact his close friend Lucky Luciano, who was in jail at the time to see what could be done. Pg. "We wanted to teach them a lesson," Lansky said. He knew his connections to the past, to friends that largely were no longer there, could not help him. Pg. There was one condition he made to Lansky directly, before going before the Supreme Court. Lansky refused to be pulled into the morass, choosing to repeatedly use the protection of the fifth, to the frustration of the Kefauver committee's attorneys. Demjanjuk was found not guilty. The Herald, together with Hank Messick, alerted the less than observant Israeli press that a major underworld crime figure was walking the streets of Tel Aviv. Returning to the hotel, he would enjoy a typical Israeli hotel smorgasbord breakfast of five types of herring, ten types of cheese and breads, salads to choose from spiced with Middle Eastern spices and various Middle Eastern pastries and hot dishes. For the rest of Messick's journalistic career, Lansky was a focus of his. German submarines were stalking American convoys from when they left port in New York and New Jersey. Maier Suchowljansky, otherwise known as Meyer Lansky, was born on July 4, 1902 in Grodno Russia. He believed the city's Jewish leaders were pleased with the actions, but they failed to stop the Jewish press from condemning him. "12 The Grand Jury was investigating newspaper reports of an alleged skimming operation that Lansky was involved with in the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. 344. He was immediately arrested for contempt of court when he failed to appear when a subpoena was issued. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return35 They ran candidates for the Israeli Knesset starting in 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_brando24 Hoover had the FBI dedicate many FBI resources in 1933, and for a number of years afterward, to capture those that threatened Hitler. Israeli Supreme Court hearings revolving around the Law of Return continued. Section 2(b)(2) was added to deny the automatic right of return under certain circumstances. But according to Rockaway, it was a comparison that the real-life Lansky was known to make himself, the National Crime Syndicate to that corporation. The cops had seen him holding the gun. "We do not want the State of Israel to become a meeting place for undesirables," said a spokesman for the Israeli Justice Ministry. His money almost gone, he struggled to help pay for his son Buddy's medical needs. We became good friends, and for the rest of our lives we shall have the lasting memory of your friendship., Jimmy Carter, who was president at the time, issued his own statement: Elvis Presleys death deprives our country of a part of itself His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. "27 The author of a 1993 book titled But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters, the elder Rockaway conducted a series of interviews with Lansky when the gangster was in his late 70s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balad_(political-party)38 The Cuban revolution and Fidel Castro in 1959 saw all of it lost. (2) is likely to endanger public health or the security of the State. Lansky had been given 1 days notice to return from Israel for the court hearing in Miami before the over-zealous prosecutor pursued him for contempt. Golda was in delicate negotiations with the Nixon administration for the delivery of the last of 74 promised Phantom Jet fighters. 322 26 "You mean fighting, as in killing?" He had been in surgery the day Vinnie claimed he gave him the illegal money in Florida. Together, the legislation grants special rights to Jews with the aim of facilitating their immigration to the Jews' ancestral homeland. "We will not give up. Ibid. Balad won three seats in the elections, filled by Bishara, Wasil Taha, and Jamal Zahalka. As soon as the Silvershirt leader mounted the podium and began shouting for an end to "all the Jew bastards in this city," Berman's lookout signaled to him. It was allegedly Lansky who persuaded the Italian-born crime boss Lucky Luciano to have Masseria assassinated in 1931 and provided Siegel's services for that purpose, making the four-man "hit" team representative of the major New York crime factions. 1." Perlman surreptitiously contacted Meyer Lanksy and asked him to help. Ibid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return35 On paper he led an exemplary, unassuming life. The hall inside was decorated with Nazi banners and portraits of Hitler, and the crowd waited expectantly for the meeting to begin. Nov. 17, 2012. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292903303&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull39 The American Justice department confiscated Rubashkin's passport as they felt he was a flight risk to Israel and would be protected under the Law of Return. "38 The feds suspected Meyer Lansky of hiding 300 million dollars of untaxed money from the government. Perhaps no American Jewish actor has been so closely associated with crime films as Harvey Keitel. 332-333. Nathan Perlman, a New York judge and former Republican congressman, was one Jewish leader who believed that Jews "have to demonstrate a little more militancy.". 233-23415 In 2008, the passport of Shalom Rubashikin, an indicted, American orthodox Hassidic Jew, accused of running Agriprocessors as corrupt abuser of American child labor laws and violating American immigration law. "Yehuda Arazi, a long-time gunrunner for the Haganah, came to the United States to assist in the arms purchasing effortAt the time the government of the United States maintained an arms embargo against Israel. Salvatore knew to respect the little Jew and Meyer in turn respected him. Dubbed the financial wizard of organized crime, Lansky was once described by an FBI agent as a man who "would have been chairman of the board of General Motors if he'd gone into legitimate business.". 42 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano, 3 The Jewish Italian connection had worked its magic. "Why go to America" Meyer remembered his grandfather saying, "it was a Jew's duty to go to Palestine" A fascinating possibility that could have c hanged the course of the Holocaust's course occurred in the 1930's, involved Bugsy Siegel. May, 1970, the monthly magazine, with a circulation estimated at 30,000,000 ran, The Shocking Success of "Public Enemy No. Despite the open hostility displayed at that time by most of his fellow Southerners toward black Americans, Elvis performed a moving tribute to racial justice with his 1968 song, If I Can Dream, only two months after MLKs murder by an avowed white supremacist. His application for Israeli citizenship was denied. November of 1970, the Miami Herald located their favorite criminal in Israel. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292903303&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull39 Lansky had never been accused of or convicted of direct tampering with the American legal system, yet it was enough for Bach. Pgs 228-2318 22716 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_brando24 The money skimming court case was a sham prosecution as well. Majer and his family lived with his beloved grandparents. 330 The Archbishop replied, "$50,000 of that money is blessed. It is part of a "fascist atmosphere that exists in the media and in political parties that is excluding the Arab community in Israel," he said. Eager to change the popular perception of his career, and dying of lung cancer, he agrees to tell his story . 330 And I thought to emphasize that not tremendously, but I felt it was important.. He commented to his mistress it would be simple to "bump him off." It was his opinion, after careful examination of the evidence that Meyer Lansky was a person with a criminal past and was likely to endanger the public welfare. She was 89. 332-333, 30 Supreme Court Justice Misha'el Kheshin told the election committee that Bishara's past expressions of support for Hezbollah in Lebanon had angered him, although he voted to allow him to run in the elections because "Israel's democracy is strong and can tolerate irregular cases", and thought that there was insufficient evidence for the ban. Ibid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sheinbein36 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054535.html He felt he had saved Israel. 41, "In the first days of June 1971, the coverage (Israeli media coverage of Lanksy) reached a climax when Benny Sigelbaum, who had been traveling in Europe and was on his way to visit Meyer in Israel, was stopped by immigration police at Tel Aviv airport. "The power of a democracy is not just allowing representation of the minorities that live within it, but also the obligation to defend itself from those who wish to exploit the freedoms that it enables in order to destroy it," the ruling faction said in a statement. 246 20 To the end, he declared himself a Jew, though not a religious one. Sheinbein fled to Israel using his father's Israeli citizenship as a cover under the Law of Return eventhough he had never been to Israel or expressed a desire to go there. During the depths of the depression when hunger was a reality he supported the soup kitchen in the basement of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Mulberry Street. "The goals of Hamas and Balad are the same: to destroy Israel," said Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman. When the world accused the Jew as a scapegoat without evidence or fact, the purpose of the law was to provide the victim with recourse a home a country that was willing to grant him safety. Lansky never had anything even remotely close to that amount of money. This embargo did not apply to the Arab states, which could always import military hardware. "I was a Jew and I felt for those Jews in Europe who were suffering," he said. His senses warned him that he was the focus of popular media driven efforts to get him. "Among Jewish youngsters growing up in the ghettos, respect for the gangster as a tough and fearless protector of his ethnic group became something akin to idolization. Elvis, you must have made a mistake, their leader said. Pg. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054535.html He is, of course, referring to the 5'0" gangland kingpin Meyer Lansky, played by British actor Anatol Yusef. His oldest son was cursed with Cerebral Palsy. 37 The writing was on the wall, the words hung in the air. Pg. Senior Biden administration official: Israels Diaspora minister does not understand the American Jewish Diaspora, Putin: My Jewish friends say Zelensky is not Jewish, Sicilys Jews have hired their first rabbi in 500 years but still face a battle for acceptance by Italys Jewish establishment. He stared at the unknown men as they opened the sliding door of the van. The Israeli media's focus against Lansky also raised support for Lansky amongst other elements of Israeli society. "When the goyim, particularly the Irish toughs, would come into Prince Street area, where the Jews congregated in Newark, and they would beat up elderly Jews or belittle them and pull their beards, the old Jews would holler for Puddy. He was not only halachically Jewish, he was also a good and generous humanitarian.. He contacted a young, bright constitutional expert and attorney, Yoram Alroy, during the fall of 1970. 42 - Little Man, Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life, Robert Lacey, Little Brown and Co., 1991, Pgs. http://www.knesset.gov.il/laws/special/eng/return.htm 27 Together they united the Jewish gangs and the Italian gangs displacing the establishment criminal control of New York by the older Irish crime mobs. 34333 Little man, Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life, Robert Lacey, Little Brown and Co., 1991. pg. www.JASHP.org. She understood, as Dr. Burg did not, the meaning of the word Mafia on the American mind. The decision came later, September 11, 1972; Rabbi Yosef Burg's decision to deny Meyer Lansky the Right of Return was upheld. He was in Rome, involved with an Italian countess when Hermann Goering arrived for a meeting with the Italian fascist leader, Mussolini. The chief government witness against Lansky was Vincent "Fat Vinnie" Teresa. Odds are you've never heard of Bernard Lansky (who insisted on being called "Mr. B"), or Lansky Brothers, his clothing shop in Memphis, TN. Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; [1] July 4, 1902 - January 15, 1983), known as the " Mob's Accountant ", was an American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States. He was in Rome, involved with an Italian countess when Hermann Goering arrived for a meeting with the Italian fascist leader, Mussolini. 330 Amongst the many Russians who came to Israel, under the Law of Return, was a distinct sub class of extremely violent, even anti-Semitic, criminal element. He never went past the 8th grade. In essence, the former head of Diaspora Jews called for an end to the Law of Return. Moving downward, the family ended up in the squalid tenements and human misery of New York's Lower East Side Jewish Ghetto. Meyer Lansky's life, on one level, was a simple story. "29 In essence, the former head of Diaspora Jews called for an end to the Law of Return. http://www.knesset.gov.il/laws/special/eng/return.htm, 27 During the trial, Bach's arguments became more strained yet it reached a sympathetic ear in the legal panel. 22 In a ruling that disappointed right-wing leaders including Israel Beiteinu Chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman, the Supreme Court Wednesday (January 21) overturned a decision to disqualify two Arab parties from running for the Knesset. The fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as part of the Bill of Rights, was added by President James Madison. There, behind the cash register, was none other than Hal Lansky, son of the late Bernard Lansky. 22413 30 Mr. Lansky was admitted to the hospital Dec. 31 suffering. There were no fatalities and no permanent injuries, only dislocated limbs, bloodied heads and noses, and damage requiring dental work. An immigrant child, he struggled hard to improve himself. Lansky was in fact in Boston recovering from a hernia operation. He was convicted of a very minor crime; running a gambling facility in 1950, for which he served a six month sentence. 33 He was 81 years old. Meyer grew to not respect his father. It was disqualified on grounds that it does not recognize the State of Israel and calls for armed conflict against it. Quietly as always, Lansky met secretly with Luciano in his prison with governmental acquiescence. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054535.html When his men arrived, Berman distributed brass knuckles and clubs. He saved the young man's life. United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_brando24 In 2008, the passport of Shalom Rubashikin, an indicted, American orthodox Hassidic Jew, accused of running Agriprocessors as corrupt abuser of American child labor laws and violating American immigration law. Lansky refused to be pulled into the morass, choosing to repeatedly use the protection of the fifth, to the frustration of the Kefauver committee's attorneys. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola25 The felony charge carried a two-year prison sentence and a fine of up to $1,000, the misdemeanor, six months in jail and $500.. Florida criminal court judge Carling Steadman was not impressed. (Vertical Entertainment). Teresa testified in court that he passed money to Lansky on a specific day in Miami, Florida. 195 This Jew was different. He has chosen to live in France rather than Israel. 22716 34333 The judge promised to do what he could. The reputed figure of Lansky having secreted a secret stash of $300,000,000, Alroy would only say that it was a pure fantasy. When the Archbishop of Newark, Reverend Thomas J. Walsh was questioned why did take soup kitchen take money from a gangster to feed the poor. He was a fearless tough in his youth who did not hesitate to use lead pipes on the heads of Jewish strikebreakers, or try and turn Jewish girls into whores for his control as a pimp. But He Was Good To His Mother, Robert A Rockaway, Gefen Publishing Jerusalem 2005 Pg. If a Jew could be accused of a crime, in a Christian or Muslim country or any foreign country, never convicted, never tried, never sentenced for anything he was accused of, real or trumped up, the Law of Return and its purpose was clear. Ibid. He supported soup kitchens and even provided college education to the deserving. A powerful testament to the legacy of MLK, this museum is far more interesting and historically significant than Graceland itself, which both of us found to be a hyped-up, kitschy tourist trap with long lines and way too many gift shops. Siegel understood and hated the Nazis. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292903303&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull39 Alroy was more than satisfied that after Castro came to power and Lansky lost his money, Lansky had retired from his former life to live quietly. The sensational story alerted, alarmed and turned on the Israeli press to an American styled conviction by popular culture. Pg. That elicited a few chuckles from these two wisecracking Jewboys, but what really intrigued us was another marker several blocks up Beale Street honoring Lansky Brothers Clothier to the King.. In the next Knesset we will pass the Citizenship Law which will put a border on the disloyalty of some of the Israeli Arabs." Years later, Lansky recounted one of the onslaughts in Yorkville to Israeli journalist Uri Dann. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balad_(political-party)38 He was a prizefighter and he had a mean streak. The implications and irony of the Lansky ruling remain. Genealogy for Bernard Irving Lansky (1930 - 1989) family tree on Geni, with over 245 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Meyer Lansky's relationship with the Italian underworld had been very helpful to the American war effort during WWII. The Messick allegation was a pure fabrication, he reported. Buddy was the eldest son of Anne Citron and Meyer Lansky. The best thing in "Lansky" is Harvey Keitel's turn as the gangster Meyer Lansky. 34333 Ibid. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292903303&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Meyer had a potential problem. http://www.eichmannprosecutorinterview.org/32 In the 1990's Sheftiel worked as the defense attorney for John Demjanjuk, "Ivan the Terrible", the sadistic murderer of the Sobibor concentration camp. The young man's name was Benjamin Siegel. The Prime Minster at first did not understand the problem until Burg used one word Mafia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balad_(political-party)38 "Murder Inc.", Balad, the Israel Supreme Court. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola, 25 He was in Rome, involved with an Italian countess when Hermann Goering arrived for a meeting with the Italian fascist leader, Mussolini. Alroy did not want to be surprised by anything that the other side might turn up about Lansky. Meyer Lansky's relationship with the Italian underworld had been very helpful to the American war effort during WWII. Hoover had the FBI dedicate many FBI resources in 1933, and for a number of years afterward, to capture those that threatened Hitler. To fully understand and depict this complicated man, this film portrays various aspects of his life while moving back and forth from his past to his present as an old man, revisiting key moments of his life., This film is not about loving or hating this man, he adds, it is about understanding him., Keitel is among several screen portrayals of Lansky by Jewish actors, including Richard Dreyfuss in a David Mamet-written HBO movie, also called Lansky, in 1999, and Dustin Hoffman in 2005s The Lost City. Patrick Fischler played the gangster in the TV series Mob City.. When the press reported the anti-Bund incidents, they referred to Lansky and his friends as "the Jewish gangsters." Along the way, I hoped to solve one of lifes most enduring mysteries: Was Elvis really a member of the tribe? http://www.eichmannprosecutorinterview.org/32 As for Robert Rockaway, who lives in Israel and teaches at Tel Aviv University, he has yet to see the movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Zwillman11 "It's the same atmosphere that is enabling the IDF to commit crimes against civilians in Gaza It's an ongoing process of de-legitimization of the Arab community in Israel." 34333 He used his natural abilities to develop gambling and money laundering, from Las Vegas to Cuba, to a skill that the government could never track. Who knows, he might be in my family tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Burg's lack of knowledge as to who Lansky was alleged to be was changed by the diligent snooping of the Miami Herald. During a career now in its sixth decade, the 82-year-old Keitel has appeared in Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Wise Guys, Bugsy, The Two Jakes, Reservoir Dogs and The Irishman, among numerous other films. The basic Law of Return was amended in 1954. If he felt Lansky was lying, even once, he would abandon Lansky instantly. Bach would later say, "I felt very strongly," he says that we had not set up this state to become a haven for people like this."32. Beale Street in downtown Memphis is famous for its blues clubs. He was a bureaucrat trying to assess the criminality of a difficult and elusive man, and faced with such a challenge, argued the state attorney, the minister was entitled to take account of all the circumstances. Bernard Lansky, a Memphis haberdasher who dressed the royalty of rhythm and blues, including the King, Elvis Presley, died on Thursday at his home in Memphis. 40http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057089.html Pg. 18 Alroy was more than satisfied that after Castro came to power and Lansky lost his money, Lansky had retired from his former life to live quietly. 22 42 - Little Man, Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life, Robert Lacey, Little Brown and Co., 1991, Pgs. Attacks, on American ships in port and information going to German submarines waiting offshore to kill, were severely disrupted. American security used Lansky to contact his close friend Lucky Luciano, who was in jail at the time to see what could be done. He learned it was a suckers bet to roll the dice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_brando24 American ships were being sabotaged in New York harbor. Subpoenaed, he appeared before the famous Kefauver U.S. Senate committee hearing on organized crime. 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