After all, as the leader of the Foundation for Accountability, Lansky pushed the envelope on transparency.

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"I think there are lot of people that are plugged into that travel matrix, of sorts, " Lansky says.

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Lansky says readers from 50 different countries have completed the survey in the couple of weeks since its launch.

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Gangster Al Capone used Cuba in the 1920s, and compatriot Meyer Lansky found ports in Haiti and the Bahamas in the 1940s.

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