Meyer Lansky’s grandson reflects on late mobster's crime empire, Las Vegas legacy and missing millions

To Prohibition-era gangsters, history buffs and true crime aficionados, he was Meyer Lansky, the financial mastermind who built an international gambling empire. To his namesake, he was simply "grandpa."

Meyer Lansky II, the grandson of the late mob boss who helped establish organized crime across the nation, reflects on his grandfather through personal letters, photographs and firsthand memories in his new book with S. J. Peddie, "The Lansky Legacy: The Life and Letters of Meyer Lansky."

"He...