Meyer Lansky, the financial mastermind of the American National Crime Syndicate.
He is portrayed as the architect who moved and cleaned organized-crime money.
He ran a Havana casino empire under Batista until Castro expelled him in 1959, then rebuilt through frontman Alvin Malnik in the Bahamas; the engine traces an unbroken money chain from Lansky through Mary Carter Paint to Resorts International to Trump. It also links him to a CIA program that served double duty: laundering syndicate money and funding off-the-books anti-communist operations.
He is a documented node connecting organized crime, casino money laundering, and intelligence operations across decades.