original_query: What evidence suggests that Lansky successfully evaded conviction through blackmail?
query: What evidence suggests that Meyer Lansky successfully evaded conviction through blackmail?
answer: The release of FBI files on Lansky revealed extensive monitoring and investigation, making it harder to explain his lack of conviction, unless he used blackmail to gain influence with politicians, policemen, and judges.  His alleged control of compromising photos of J. Edgar Hoover is cited as an example of this.