1674-57 Morris Lansburgh RANK 6 OF 6, PAGE 9 OF 13, DB H83
Gambling produced Lansky's only Florida conviction. He and
his brother Jake pleaded guilty in Broward County to keeping a
tmbling house and were fined $2 , 000 each. In 1953, Meyer
&leaded guilty to five charges of illegal gambling in the
racetrack town of Saratoga, N.Y. He served 2 1/2 months of a
three-month sentence.
In 1970 he was arrested as he returned to Miami from a
secret meeting in Acapulco. The charge was having no
prescription for the indigestion pills he carried. The verdict:
not guilty.
In March 1971, a U.S. grand jury in Miami ordered Lansky to
testify about "skimming, " or removing profits of the Flamingo
Casino for distribution without payment of taxes. When he failed
to respond, he was indicted in Miami and New York on tax
evasion charges.
Others indicted were gambler Dino Cellini and Miami Beach
hotelmen Morris Lansburgh and Sam Cohen. Legal maneuvers,
centered on Lansky's medical condition, won him postponement
after postponement.
In the fall of 1976 in Nevada, U.S. District Judge Roger D.
Foley dismissed the final federal charge against Lansky. Foley
ruled, after hearing uncontested medical evidence, that Lansky
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