5 Syndicate Bankers: Meyer Lansky Died in Bed. 3 Didn't

Meyer Lansky died in his bed. Roberto Calvi, Michele Sindona and Allen Dorfman did not. Five men kept the mob's money, and the record shows who paid for knowing where it went. Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London on June 18, 1982. A London inquest found suicide; in 2010 an Italian appeal court upheld the acquittals of five people tried for his murder and said he was murdered. Nobody has been convicted. Michele Sindona was sentenced to life in Milan on March 18, 1986 for ordering the murder of the liquidator Giorgio Ambrosoli, and died four days later after drinking coffee that contained cyanide in Voghera prison; the case was closed as suicide. Allen Dorfman, the Teamsters pension fund consultant, was shot dead in a hotel parking lot in Lincolnwood on January 20, 1983, weeks after a federal bribery conviction; no one has been charged. Moe Dalitz was never convicted of a serious crime and died in Las Vegas in 1989, aged 89. Meyer Lansky was acquitted of tax evasion in Miami in 1973 and died of lung cancer on January 15, 1983, aged 80; federal authorities believed he had hidden about $300 million, and nobody found it. Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons): CC BY 2.0: Joi Ito. CC BY 4.0: JRennocks. CC BY-SA 2.0: VirtuallyLondonBecky. CC BY-SA 3.0: mattbuck, Wtstoffs. CC BY-SA 4.0: Alexxx1979, DanTD, Giaccai, Heather Birch, The wub, Ysogo. CC0: Boubloub, Garam. Also used: public-domain photographs. News and archive film (AP Archive, CBS Chicago, ABC News, Corriere della Sera, RAI, British Pathe, Kinolibrary, PeriscopeFilm and others) appears in short, muted excerpts for commentary and criticism. Thumbnail: portraits colorized from original black-and-white photographs. CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 0:46 - Roberto Calvi: God's Banker 6:40 - Michele Sindona: The Cyanide Coffee 12:15 - Moe Dalitz: The Desert Inn 17:10 - Allen Dorfman: The Pension Fund 22:29 - Meyer Lansky: Died in Bed 27:09 - Closing the Ledger: Who Paid SOURCES Every claim in this video is sourced from court records, official transcripts and contemporary reporting. Main sources: • Time magazine, 1982 reporting on Banco Ambrosiano and Roberto Calvi • Rome Court of Assizes (2007) and Rome Court of Appeal (2010): verdicts in the Calvi murder trial, as reported by AP Archive • U.S. Senate Kefauver Committee, testimony of Moe Dalitz, Los Angeles, February 28, 1951 (transcript, via The Mob Museum) • The Mob Museum, Las Vegas: biographies of Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky • CBS Chicago, coverage of the January 1983 killing of Allen Dorfman and its 40-year follow-up • Il Fatto Quotidiano, reporting on Giorgio Ambrosoli and his funeral • Newsweek and Time magazine on Meyer Lansky (the "bigger than U.S. Steel" paraphrase; review of the Lansky biography) • History News Network on Lansky's Riviera hotel-casino in Havana Music: Aphelion by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Music: Decoherence by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Music: Effervescence by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Music: Hyperion by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Music: Penumbra by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Music: Unraveling by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Music: Within Our Nature by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Music: Cinema Blockbuster Trailer 14 by Sascha Ende — ende.app License: CC BY 4.0 (ende.app/standard-license) Music: Cinema Blockbuster Trailer 15 by Sascha Ende — ende.app License: CC BY 4.0 (ende.app/standard-license) Music: Cinematic Suspense Series Episode 002 by Sascha Ende — ende.app License: CC BY 4.0 (ende.app/standard-license) Music: Dark Secrets (DECISION) by Sascha Ende — ende.app License: CC BY 4.0 (ende.app/standard-license) Music: "A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It?" by ELPHNT (YouTube Audio Library) Music: "A Tale of Vengeance" by Aakash Gandhi (YouTube Audio Library) Music: "Black Mass" by Brian Bolger (YouTube Audio Library) Music: "For We Are Many" by Cooper Cannell (YouTube Audio Library) Music: "I'll Remember You" by Jeremy Blake (YouTube Audio Library) Music: "Subtle Betrayal" by SYBS (YouTube Audio Library) Music: "Time Stops" by Silent Partner (YouTube Audio Library) DISCLAIMER This video is for educational and informational purposes only. All information presented is based on publicly available court documents, period newspapers and published sources cited above. The Tallyman does not encourage or condone any illegal activity. ABOUT THE TALLYMAN The Tallyman is a documentary channel about wealth, crime and power, kept like a ledger: who took what, and who paid for it. Every episode ranks the people behind history's biggest fortunes, frauds and power grabs, told from the record. #MobBankers #MeyerLansky #TheTallyman