Funny thing is that I didn't click the link before my above post ... it's just common knowledge where I come from.
Good read btw
LOVE THIS:
But Lansky never mentions the story in his authorized biographies and Luciano remembers meeting Lansky when Lucky's gang tried to shakedown the young Meyer and was told in no uncertain terms to go f__ themselves.
"Ok, Little Man," Luciano remembers telling the diminutive Lansky. "You get your protection for free."
"Shove your protection up your ass," Lansky shot back. "I don?t need it."
And Lansky, who would never grow much above five feet, proceeded to prove it to the older boy.
"Believe me, I found out he didn?t need it," Luciano recalled years later. "Next to Benny Siegel, Meyer Lansky was the toughest guy, pound for pound, I ever knew in my whole life and that takes in Albert Anastasia or any of them Brooklyn hoodlums or anybody anyone can think of."
