「Murder, Inc. 」 (殺人株式会社) (or Murder Incorporated) was the name the press gave to organized crime groups in the 1930s through the 1940s that acted as the enforcement arm of the American Mafia, the early organized crime groups in New York and elsewhere. The groups were composed of largely Jewish-American and Italian-Americangangsters from the Brooklynneighborhoods of Brownsville, East New York, and Ocean Hill. Originally headed by Louis Lepke Buchalter, and later by Albert The Mad Hatter Anastasia, Murder, Inc. was believed to be responsible for between 400 and 1,000 contract killings, until the group was exposed in the early 1940s by informer and group member Abe Kid Twist Reles. In the trials that followed, many members were convicted and executed, and Abe Reles himself died after falling out of a window. Thomas E. Dewey first came to prominence as a prosecutor of Murder, Inc. and other organized crime cases. (Known members) ・Aniello Dellacroce ・Charles Lucky Luciano – Founder of the National Crime Syndicate, which used Murder, Inc. as its enforcers ・Meyer The Little Man Lansky – Lucianos right-hand man in the National Crime Syndicate, who helped form Murder, Inc. ・Benjamin Bugsy Siegel – helped form it alongside other mobsters also responsible for the murder of fellow Murder Inc. (Member) ・ Harry Big Greenie Greenberg ・Vincent Mangano – boss of his own family and Murder, Inc. until the Commission took it over ・Louis Lepke Buchalter - original head of Murder, Inc. ・Albert The Lord High Executioner Anastasia – Succeeded Buchalter until he became boss of the Gambino crime family ・Abe Kid Twist Reles – Potential witness, who was murdered before he could give evidence against other members of Murder, Inc. in the early 1940s ・Martin Buggsy Goldstein ・Harry Pittsburgh Phil Strauss ・Louis Capone – a member of Murder, Inc. who worked under Albert Anastasia and Louis Buchaltar. He was executed along with his partner and boss Louis Buchalter in Sing Sing penitentiary. ・Allie Tick Tock Tannenbaum ・Seymour Magoon – the only Irish member ・Harry Maione – Leader of Italian faction of Murder, Inc. (Formerly led the Ocean Hill Hooligans before it was assimilated into Murder, Inc.) ・Mendy Weiss ・Hyman Curly Holtz ・Jacob Gurrah Shapiro ・Frank The Dasher Abbandando – belonged to the Italian faction ・Charles Charlie the Bug Workman ・Joe Adonis – belonged to the Italian faction ・Louis Cohen ・Frankie Carbo ・Louis Shadow Kravitz ・Philip Little Farvel Kovolick ・Samuel Red Levine - famous for not killing on the Jewish Sabbath.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:53:10 +0000
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