Julian Crowley
Following Capone’s imprisonment one of his contemporaries, the Polish born “mob’s accountant” Meyer Lansky, deduced that he needed to hide the root of money gained through illegal means in order to avoid the law. It has been said that he can be credited with establishing the modern form of money laundering. He siphoned off around $1 billion from his growing casino empire into Swiss bank accounts and businesses in Hong Kong, South America and the Caribbean. He was never convicted and died in 1983 with an estimated net worth of $100 million.
