“Lansky was attempting to entrap powerful people through sexual blackmail as far back as 1939.”

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Lansky was credited with obtaining compromising photos of J. Edgar Hoover sometime in the 1940s, which showed "Hoover in some kind of gay situation," according to a former Lansky associate, who also said that Lansky had often claimed, “I fixed that …

Lansky was credited with obtaining compromising photos of J. Edgar Hoover sometime in the 1940s, which showed "Hoover in some kind of gay situation," according to a former Lansky associate, who also said that Lansky had often claimed, “I fixed that sonofabitch."

The photos showed Hoover engaged in sexual activity with Tolson. Journalist Ed Reid, author of the Virginia Hill biography The Mistress and the Mafia, wrote that Lansky was attempting to entrap powerful people through sexual blackmail as far back as 1939.
Congressional crime consultant Ralph Salerno told Summers in 1993 that Hoover's willful ignorance of organized crime for most of his career as FBI director "allowed organized crime to grow very strong in economic and political terms, so that it became a much bigger threat to the wellbeing of this country than it would have been.