Nicholas Belangi was one of the Genovese Family’s most important money couriers. Although he was born of Italian ethnicity and was indeed a documented mafia “soldier” serving in the regime of iconic family capodecina Jimmy Blue Eyes Alo, multiple underworld informers, and FBI wiretaps revealed that Belangi was actually a “key” operative of the Jewish mob. In fact, he was a very close associate and aide de camp of none other than the top Jewish boss himself, the iconic Meyer (Bugs Meyer) Lansky.
How that came to be is anyone’s guess. But in later years, while unwittingly speaking to a federal FBI informer, Belangi himself revealed why he had always been so closely associated with New York’s Jewish mob.