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Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc., is executed
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 nearly $50 million a year from his various enterprises.
Louis buchalter biography
His downfall came when several members of his notorious killing squad turned into witnesses for the government.
Lepke began his criminal career robbing pushcarts as a teenager. When he met Jacob “Gurrah” Shapiro while trying to rob the same pushcart, the two quickly became a formidable team.
With Shapiro’s brute strength, the two established an extortion business, forcing pushcart owners to pay for protection. Lepke and Shapiro then joined Jacob “Little Augie” Orgen’s Lower East Side gang and turned their attention to bigger game.
One by one, Lepke and the gang terrorized the local garment workers unions.
They took over control of the unions and forced kickback payments