Eventually, Meyer Lansky was credited with obtaining compromising photos of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sometime in the 1940s, which showed “Hoover in some kind of gay situation”, according to a former Lansky associate, who also said that Lansky had often claimed, “I fixed that sonofabitch.” The photos showed Hoover engaged in sexual activity with his long-time friend, FBI Deputy Director Clyde Tolson.
It was not Lansky, but William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the director of the OSS, who obtained the original photos of Hoover and later shared them with Lansky.