Lansky (And Capone Indirectly) Founded Israel - Kind Of - Part One

From Bootlegging To Heroin, "Victimless Crime" Funded Israel's Birth

On October 6th, 1931, Al Capone faced his trial on income tax evasion that would put him away for eleven years in prison. As a prelude to the trial, Capone began squirreling away a 100 Million dollar fortune with the help of Chicago Outfit lawyer Sidney Korshak.

🧾 Article Summary

George Webb recounts how Al Capone, anticipating his imprisonment in 1931 for tax evasion, began hiding a $100 million fortune with the help of Sidney Korshak, a powerful lawyer for the Chicago Outfit.

Korshak dispersed the funds among various Cosa Nostra crime families via ventures like the Continental Press racing wire, linking local outfits into a de facto national syndicate. According to Webb, Korshak later invested this fortune in Las Vegas casinos and Hollywood films, forming lasting ties between organized crime, intelligence operatives, and Israeli interests, particularly through figures like Meyer Lansky and Les Wexner.

The piece also explores modern connections to political deaths like that of Seth Rich, suggesting Lou’s Bar and Grill in D.C. may be key to understanding the lingering legacy of Capone-era financial networks.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 People Described

Al Capone

Al Capone was a Chicago-based mob boss who controlled bootlegging and gambling empires during Prohibition. Facing imprisonment in 1931, he allegedly began hiding a $100 million fortune. His network extended across multiple crime families in the U.S., unified through ventures like the Continental Press. Capone’s influence persisted through his successors, whose illicit money funded Las Vegas and Hollywood empires.

Sidney Korshak

Korshak was a lawyer for the Chicago Outfit, known as “The Fixer,” who handled legal and financial operations for organized crime. He invested Capone’s hidden fortune into Las Vegas casinos, Hollywood films, and Cuba’s nightlife industry, making him a linchpin in both the mafia’s financial network and covert geopolitical strategies. Korshak’s influence was so great he could halt or greenlight major studio productions with a phone call. George Webb portrays Korshak as shrewd rather than villainous, key to connecting the mafia to Israeli intelligence via Meyer Lansky.

Frank Nitti

Nitti was Capone’s right-hand man and eventual successor in the Chicago Outfit. He was instrumental in continuing the Outfit’s bootlegging and gambling operations and also involved in the hidden transfer of Capone’s wealth. Like Capone, Nitti faced jail time, prompting a rush to secure and launder mob funds. His money was also funneled by Korshak into casinos and movies.

Tony Accardo

Accardo succeeded Nitti as head of the Chicago Outfit and played a major role in the Outfit’s expansion into legitimate-looking businesses, especially Las Vegas casinos. He helped manage and profit from the initial investments made by Capone and Korshak. His leadership marked the transition from street-level crime to white-collar enterprise. Accardo is portrayed as the third key figure in the financial evolution of the mob empire.

Meyer Lansky

Lansky was a Jewish mobster with deep financial and strategic ties to Korshak and the Chicago Outfit. He expanded organized crime's reach into Havana, Miami, and later Israel. His relationship with Korshak became a gateway for Mossad connections, establishing Israeli intelligence as an eventual partner to U.S. mob-linked networks. Many Israeli crime families today are seen as descendants of Lansky’s empire.

Joe Capone

Joe Capone was the owner of Lou’s Bar and Grill in Washington, D.C., the last place Seth Rich was seen alive. According to Webb, Joe Capone may have been indirectly connected to Korshak-style intelligence or laundering networks. Webb spent a week investigating the bar and concluded that it may have been a meeting place for diplomatic or covert communications. Joe Capone's role remains ambiguous but possibly central to modern connections in this story.

Seth Rich

Seth Rich was a DNC staffer whose mysterious death sparked political conspiracy theories. Webb suggests Rich used Lou’s Bar and Grill as a hub for intelligence meetings and not just social outings. Far from being an alcohol-abusing millennial, Rich is portrayed as a diplomatic figure potentially caught in a larger covert game. Webb hints that Rich’s activities may tie back to older mafia/Mossad alliances.

Jenny Moore (Task Force)

Jenny Moore was an investigative partner of George Webb, formerly a police officer and whistleblower. She died under suspicious circumstances in 2018 after helping Webb investigate high-level corruption and mafia intelligence ties. Together, they conducted on-the-ground research at places like the Wrigley Building in Chicago. Moore is seen as a martyr figure in Webb’s larger quest for truth.

Robert Maheu

Maheu was a CIA contractor and handler for Howard Hughes, and partner to mob figures like Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana. He facilitated covert CIA operations, including assassination attempts on Castro, using Hughes's wealth and influence. Maheu allegedly used CIA funds to buy out mob casinos in Las Vegas, thus tying U.S. intelligence directly to organized crime investments. His operations also connected to Korshak and Mossad-aligned figures.

Johnny Roselli

Roselli was a Chicago mobster tied to Hollywood and CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. He was hired by Maheu as part of these covert operations. His involvement in both crime and intelligence operations made him a classic "deep state" intermediary. Roselli also dated Marilyn Monroe, symbolizing the crime-Hollywood-intelligence triangle.

Sam Giancana

Giancana succeeded Accardo in leading the Chicago Outfit and was deeply involved with the CIA and Cuban exile operations. He also participated in the assassination planning against Castro with Roselli and Maheu. Giancana's romantic link to Marilyn Monroe placed him within the web of mob-Hollywood-intelligence liaisons. His murder remains suspicious, likely tied to what he knew about these covert alliances.

John F. Kennedy

JFK is referenced as another figure interested in removing Castro, allegedly overlapping with mob plans. His own links to Marilyn Monroe and rumored contact with mobsters like Giancana reflect the blurred lines between politics, intelligence, and organized crime. Webb positions JFK as both participant and potential victim of the same syndicate network. These connections remain central to George Webb’s broader investigations into political cover-ups.

Les Wexner

Wexner is identified by Webb as a modern-day parallel to Sidney Korshak, operating as a financial and logistical fixer for covert operations. Known for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Wexner allegedly helped fund projects and people tied to Israeli intelligence. Webb suggests Wexner is the modern linchpin tying today’s oligarchs and intelligence services to the old mafia structures. The implication is that organized crime has gone corporate—and global.

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🏢 Organizations Described

Chicago Outfit

The Chicago Outfit was the most powerful organized crime group in the Midwest, with national influence in bootlegging, gambling, and later, casinos. Under Capone, Nitti, and Accardo, it developed systems of laundering money through wire services, casinos, and Hollywood. Sidney Korshak served as the trusted lawyer and financial coordinator. The Outfit is portrayed as foundational to both American organized crime and its modern intelligence-linked offspring.

Continental Press

This was a racing wire service owned by Capone that served as a national bookmaker communication network. It allowed crime families to coordinate gambling activity across the U.S., creating interdependence and cohesion. This infrastructure became a critical financial link between different regional mafias. Continental Press was a precursor to a nationally connected criminal syndicate.

Cosa Nostra

Referring to the Sicilian mafia in America, “Our Thing” was a network of crime families that swore oaths of secrecy and loyalty. The structure allowed for compartmentalization while collaborating on national schemes like the racing wire. Cosa Nostra was foundational in enabling Capone and later leaders to safely distribute and hide fortunes. It remains central to understanding organized crime's resilience.

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

The CIA is portrayed as having partnered with organized crime during the Cold War for covert operations in Latin America and the Middle East. Robert Maheu’s role as a go-between for mobsters and the CIA is emphasized. Their mutual interest in overthrowing Castro and controlling oil and drug routes created lasting partnerships. These ties may extend into the present through figures like Wexner.

Mossad (Israeli Intelligence)

Mossad is depicted as a beneficiary of mafia financial networks, specifically through the Meyer Lansky–Sidney Korshak relationship. The cooperation between U.S. and Israeli intelligence evolved through shared goals, especially in the Middle East. Modern Israeli crime families are said to descend from Lansky’s syndicate. Mossad provides sanctuary via Israel’s “right of return” laws to wanted mafiosi like Igor Kolomoisky.

Mob Museum

Located in Las Vegas, this museum offers public insight into organized crime history. George Webb references it as a resource for learning more about the Vegas hearings and criminal legacies. The Kefauver hearings on organized crime were conducted in the same building. The museum provides key context for understanding how mob history intersects with American governance.

Understandably, Capone had Korshak spread the money out between the entire network of crime families in the United States who had taken the Sicilian Cosa Nostra (Our Thing) Oath of secrecy and allegiance until death.

While each Sicilian crime family in major American cities pursued their own interests for the most part, the racing wire was a form of interstate gambling that linked all the families. Capone’s Continental Press racing wire and daily racing form made every newsstand and cigar store in America a bookie's joint, and this mutual interest led to the cooperation of regional crime families into a national syndicate led by Capone.

A typical newsstand and cigar store openly advertised their bookmaking services in the late 1920s with Continental Press wire service.

Capone also controlled bootlegging, importing from ports near Chicago and Ohio, adding to his network of crime family interstate commerce in the United States. With both Al Capone and his right-hand man, Frank Nitti, staring at long-term prison sentences, the time to move the $100 million in ill-gotten gains was before the trial, not after. The great undiscovered truth to this day is that Sidney Korshak invested money in casinos in Las Vegas and in movies in Los Angeles on behalf of Capone and Nitti.

There is a “safe deposit box” theory forwarded by his niece, but this theory was disproven when Al Capone’s safe was opened in a live television event in 1986.

The undiscovered truth is that Sidney Korshak had access to these vaults while he was in prison, using them to move money for Al Capone into casinos and movies.

The cash for Chicago Outfit for Las Vegas casinos came from Al Capone, Second Frank Nitti, and then Tony Accardo.

I don’t see Sidney Korshak quite as cold and calculating as this character sketch, but it is close. Korshak was one tough cookie who could shut down movies or start them back up with one phone call, and he bought all the Las Vegas casinos for organized crime.

I see Sidney Korshak as more shrewd than calculating, but I will present the evidence here and let you make that call yourself. But Korshak is the key to figuring out where the billions went.

Korshak’s nickname with the Chicago Outfit was “The Fixer.”

You may remember me going to Washington, DC, for the first time to visit Lou’s Bar And Grill, owned by Joe Capone, the last place Seth Rich was seen alive. I went to Lou’s Bar and Grill every day for a week, and I got to know Joe Capone reasonably well after that week.

I still think this is the place to go if you have information about where any of the Capone millions may have been stashed that Sidney didn’t invest in Las Vegas casinos, Havana casinos, Cuba casinos, or Hollywood movies. Seth Rich certainly used this place as a meeting point, but the stories of his alcohol abuse are greatly exaggerated. I will show in this series that there is an Italian mafia connection to the Israeli Mossad operation through the Capone—Korshak—Wexner/Seth Rich connection, but that is for future episodes.

I found that Seth Rich used Lou’s Bar and Grill to conduct diplomatic meetings and collect intelligence in Washington, DC. Again, my information is based on dozens of interviews of people who knew Seth Rich as a regular customer, not the caricatures created after his death by people who didn’t do the research.

Again, these AI summaries of Sidney Korshak may be oversimplifications. My job is to present the facts and let you decide for yourselves. I believe you will see that Les Wexner is today’s Sidney Korshak, and I think many pieces will fall into place with modern history once this crucial Korshak puzzle piece has been placed in history.

George Webb in front of the “Flamingo” sculpture in Chicago in front of the Federal Building where all the Chicago Outfit trials were conducted. Was the Flamingo a flaunting of Chicago Outfit money being invested in Las Vegas right under the nose of the FBI Building?

One rock-solid cornerstone we can start our investigation with is Sidney Korshak. Korshak was the Chicago Outfit’s deal maker and attorney in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and he bought all the hotels in Las Vegas and Cuba for the Chicago Outfit and several other crime families around the United States.

Another rock-solid cornerstone that cannot be denied is that Sidney Korshak was the critical linchpin to Meyer Lansky and the Jewish mafia connection that would become the Mossad backbone in Israel. The Miami and Havana Lansky connection to Korshak connection was also rock-solid and lifelong for both parties.

So, I am at the end of Part One with this Substack's limit but stay tuned for Part Two.

George Webb and his research partner Jenny Moore, AKA Task Force, broadcast for a week below the Chicago Outfit’s law office’s new home in the Wrigley Building for a week in April of 2018 before her untimely death in August of 2018.

In future postings, learn how Robert Mahue, Robert Hughes's CIA handler, partners with Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana to invest Chicago Outfit money in Las Vegas casinos and conduct covert action in Latin America.

Mahue (right) leaving Senate Select Subcommittee On Intelligence “Family Jewels” hearings where he described hiring Roselli to kill Castro.

Mahue also used CIA money through Howard Hughes to buyout most of the Chicago Outfit casinos.

The CIA shared goals with Mossad for Middle East oil, making natural partners between Korshak and Mahue.

Mahue worked for a small assassination squads in to the CIA that had the highest level of secrecy.

Johnny Roselli, Sam Giancana, and John F Kennedy all wanted to kill Castro, and all of them dated Marilyn Monroe.

Sixteen main crime families in Israel today, descendant from Meyer Lansky.

Visit the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. Good stuff in there. The Kefauver Vegas Hearing were in that building.

Israel’s “right of return” is perfect refuge for mobsters running from Interpol like Igor Kolomoisky.