Just the year before, Lansky’s good friend, President Fulgencio Batista, had retaken the Cuban government in a military coup and was running the show.
In the spring of 1953, as mob mogul Meyer Lansky began a three-month sentence in the Saratoga County Jail in Ballston Spa – his only jail term ever – he may have dreamed of the welcoming warmth of Havana.
