Originally Posted by Relentless

A man doesn't need to be 6'11 275 pounds with washboard abs to run a crime family. You need a brain and a spine. Meyer Lansky was a short Jewish man from the Lower East Side of NYC. At one point he ran the entire island of Cuba, a good part of New York City and had a say in pretty much everything that happened in the United States crime world. He was 4' 11 3/4. He was a lot smaller than Buscemi... and nobody felt the urge to disrespect him.