The Real Gangs of Boardwalk Empire
From Al Capone to Johnny Torrio, TIME takes a look at the real-life gangsters portrayed in Boardwalk Empire
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Meyer Lansky
The brains behind the infamous National Crime Syndicate, real life Meyer Lansky was born in modern day Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire) and was involved with both the Jewish and Italian mafias. Anatol Yusef's on-screen version hails from Poland, but other than that is very similar.
