Los Angeles (AFP) – A Medal of Freedom awarded to a notorious mobster by then-US President Harry S. Truman is set to go under the hammer 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. Meyer 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. But it was for his role in “Operation Husky” during World War II that Lansky and his fellow gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano…