In the 1930s, when the German American Bund were holding fascist rallies across the US, perhaps the main person who nipped them in the bud was none other than Meyer Lansky, AKA “The Mob’s Accountant” and in many eyes the most powerful organized-crime figure in American history. Lansky claimed that influential rabbis and even an unnamed judge encouraged him and his criminal cohorts to shut down fascist rallies in ways almost identical to how Antifa operates today.
