The life of the corrupt genius who was known as the Mob's financial leader. He was called little man and Lucky Luciano's advice to his followers was always listen to him. Meyer Lansky was the man who created crime in its syndicate form and remained the most shadowy of the organised crime leaders. Meyer Lansky creates an intricate and lucrative web of casinos and businesses that make the Mafia more profitable than some major corporations. From the pogroms of Eastern Europe to the heyday of the Vegas Mob, rare footage and interviews reveal the double life of the man known as the Mob's financial leader. Meyer Lansky will forever be identified with the statement "we're bigger than U.S. Steel". The boast made for good headlines and helped politicians like Estes Kefauver and Bobby Kennedy build their reputations and later achiheved near-factual status when Hyman Roth, the Meyer Lansky inspired character in the Godfather II repeated it to Michael Corleone. Whether or not Lansky ever really said it, it was probably true. Organized crime in America from the 1930s to the 1980s was big business and Meyer Lansky had helped make it that way.