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Louis Buchalter, known as Louis Lepke or Lepke Buchalter, (February 6, 1897 – March 4, 1944) was a Jewish-American organized crime figure and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc., during the 1930s. Buchalter was one of the premier labor union racketeers in New York City during that era.
Nov 13, 2009 · Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York. Lepke was the leader of the country’s largest crime syndicate throughout the 1930s and was making...
It was initially headed by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and later by Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia. [2] Murder, Inc. was believed to be responsible for between 400 and 1,000 contract killings, [3] until the group was exposed in 1941 by former member Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. [2]
But to most everyone else in New York City and beyond, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter was the most ruthless racketeer and gangster to emerge from the Lower East Side, a mob leader who terrorized...
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Thomas E. Dewey built a political career around hounding the Jewish gangster Lepke. His execution in 1944 — the first of a major underworld figure – riveted the attention of a nation and was in doubt up to the last minute. by Allan May.
Mar 4, 2024 · Eighty years ago, Sing Sing’s electric chair, “Old Sparky,” delivered its sinister, life-ending jolts in succession to the trio of Louis Capone, Emanuel “Mendy” Weiss and Louis “Lepke” Buchalter. The executions on March 4, 1944, marked the climactic close to a particularly bizarre chapter in the Mob’s history.
Louis “Lepke” Buchalter and his gang of mobsters were busted thanks to an FBI investigation into a fur dressing racket in the 1930s. Overview. Jacob “Gurrah” Shapiro surrendered to federal...
