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[[File:Jacob_Shapiro_&_Louis_Buchalter_1937_FBI_poster.jpg|thumb|A November 1937 FBI wanted poster for Buchalter and Shapiro.]]Murder, Incorporated''' (or '''Murder, Inc.''') was the name the press gave to organized crime groups in the 1930s through the 1940s that acted as the armed forces of the American Mafia in New York and elsewhere. | |||
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Revision as of 07:48, 13 June 2016
Murder, Incorporated (or Murder, Inc.) was the name the press gave to organized crime groups in the 1930s through the 1940s that acted as the armed forces of the American Mafia in New York and elsewhere.
Description
The groups were composed of largely Italian-American and Jewish gangsters from the Brooklyn neighborhoods 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 a former group member Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (nonfiction).
In the trials that followed, many members were convicted and executed.
Reles (nonfiction) died after falling out of -- or being thrown from -- a window.
Thomas E. Dewey first came to prominence as a prosecutor of Murder, Inc. and other organized crime cases.
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Fiction cross-reference
External links
- Murder, Inc. @ Wikipedia