Heirs of Meyer Lansky want compensation for Cuban casino
Heirs of Meyer Lansky want compensation for Cuban casino
Reuters
By Daniel Trotta
20 hours ago
HAVANA (Reuters) - The heirs of American organized crime legend Meyer Lansky want compensation for his nationalized hotel, the Riviera, the seaside home to one of the last casinos built in swinging Havana of the 1950s.
U.S. and Cuban officials on Tuesday opened talks about honoring legal claims against the respective governments that were dormant for half a century and are now under review since the former Cold War foes have restored diplomatic ties.
Although Lansky's heirs have yet to file a claim, they have been looking into their rights ever since U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced a year ago that they would normalize relations, said Gary Rapoport, Lansky's grandson.
Rapoport, 60, said he, his mother and his uncle are beneficiaries of Lansky's trust and entitled to compensation. The hotel opened in December 1957 and was nationalized after Fidel Castro's rebels took over little more than a year later and outlawed gambling as a capitalist vice.
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Meyer Lansky and his beautiful fambly
Lansky's lovely grandson, Gary Rapoport, holding a picture
of his high school graduation, with grandpops proudly attending.
Meyer! [/center]
forest444
(5,902 posts)Calling Francis Ford Coppola! It's a like a never-ending Godfather sequel with these people.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The Bacardis are more of an interesting situation, but there's going to have be some kind of agreement or "Cuban Claims Act" to put these things to bed for good.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)that's just funny, good luck with that.
Javaman
(62,531 posts)dream on, dude, dream on.
Warmongers
(2 posts)Cuba must sue the pants out of them since they are bandit Meyer's legal successors.
malthaussen
(17,209 posts)First thing a red-blooded American wants to do: sue somebody.
-- Mal
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)It's not like his family doesn't owe hundreds of millions in restitution for pep-pep's decades of theft, swindling, extortion and robbery