Polish-American organized crime and Hymie Weiss (Wojciechowski) both having a Polish heritage. Fred Goetz was involved in carrying out the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. In New Jersey, the organization led by Mickey Cusick, was the prominent boss of bootlegging in Southern Jersey. The infamous gangster Meyer Lansky, one of the leaders of the National Crime Syndicate and associate of Lucky Luciano, was actually a Polish Jew. Joseph Filkowski led a mostly Polish bootlegging ring in Cleveland, Ohio, along with gangster Joseph Stazek. In Pittsburgh, Paul Jarwarski was also a prominent figure, carrying out the first armored car robbery. In Buffalo, New York John
Sam Lansky Sam Lansky Sam Lansky is a journalist, author and editor at "TIME" magazine. He has written for "New York Magazine", "The Atlantic", "Esquire", "Out", and "Grantland". He came out at the age of 11. After his parents divorced, he lived with his father in Manhattan and attended the Dwight School. He began using drugs when he was in his early teens. He was forcibly entered into a wilderness rehabilitation in Utah at 17 and became sober when he was 19. He enrolled in the New School and got a degree in creative writing. He worked as a freelance music critic