Personal items of America's "most infamous" mobsters up for auction
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A Medal of Freedom awarded to a notorious mobster by then-President Harry S. Truman is set to go to auction in California.
The honor -- a forerunner to the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom -- was bestowed by Truman on Meyer "The Little Man" Lansky in a secret 1945 ceremony.
Lansky was a leader of the National Crime Syndicate, a confederation of organized crime groups that was responsible for hundreds of murders in the 1930s and 1940s.
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