Mafia Romance
. From the way Frankie The Mob Girl 38 would fidget and flatter in his presence, Arlyne could tell he was a dangerous man, that term meaning, both then and for the rest of his life, the ability to command respect and more generally, to get things done. Red Levine, as he eventually learned, was a good friend of Meyer Lansky, a soft-spoken Polish immigrant who by then had become a Lower East Side legend. Shortly after his arrival in America in 1911, at the age of nine, he embarked on a career as a street bookie, and in the years to come managed to forge a criminal empire based on gambling, rum smuggling and protection. Considered an outcast by the Orthodox religious leaders, he was nonetheless