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Of the Jewsih Gangster in organized crine, few of these men were religiously observant. They rarely attended services, although they did support congregations financially. They did not keep kosher or...
View ArticleMoe Dalitz
Morris Barney "Moe" Dalitz was a bootlegger and racketeer who was one of the major figures that helped shape Las Vegas, Nevada in the 20th century.Born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Michigan,...
View ArticleJoseph "Doc" Stacher
Joseph "Doc" Stacher was a Jewish syndicate leader who helped bring together the Jewish and Italian Mafia into a national organized crime syndicate.Born in Poland around 1902, Stacher immigrated with...
View ArticleThe Purple Gang of Detroit
The Purple Gang was a notorious mob of (mostly Jewish) bootleggers and hijackers in the 1920s. Under the leadership of Abe Bernstein, the gang operated out of Detroit, Michigan, in the United States,...
View ArticleThe Lenox Avenue Gang
The Lenox Avenue Gang was an early 20th Century New York street gang led by Gyp the Blood, one of the most violent gangs of the pre-Prohibition era.The Lenox Avenue Gang was started sometime during the...
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Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal
Frank Larry 'Lefty' Rosenthal, born on June 12, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois, is a renowned sports handicapper and a former Las Vegas casino executive. He secretly ran the Stardust, Fremont and Hacienda...
View ArticleMax Zwerbach - The Original "Kid Twist"
Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach was a gangster in the around the turn of the century who belonged to the Eastman Gang. Virtually nothing is known of Zwerbach's early life and origins. He appears to have been...
View ArticleIsadore " Kid Cann" Blumenfeld
Isadore Blumenfeld commonly known as Kid Cann, was the most notorious mobster in the history of Minnesota. He was born in the shtetl of Rumnesk, Romania, but was brought to the United States at the age...
View ArticleBeansie Rosenthal and Charles Becker
In the history of the United States, there has been relatively few police officers convicted and executed for a crime. One such officer was Charles Becker, a high-profile lieutenant for the New York...
View ArticleMore about the leaders of Murder Inc.
They were Jewish gangsters. They grew up going to synagogue and celebrating holidays and Sabbath, but as they got older, they were anything but orthodox. Jewish gangsters didn’t think of God, ethics,...
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The Electric Chair at Sing Sing
On June 4, 1888, NY Gov. Daniel B. Hill signed a bill authorizing the use of the electric chair. Electrocution was considered a more humane method of execution than hanging. Thus "the chair" replaced...
View ArticleThe Joe Rosen Story
The quiet of the dawning Sunday morning was broken by the sound of firecrackers as the man leaned over his sleeping son. Louis Stamler, a tailor, was waking the boy so he could go to work, when he...
View ArticleThe Boys from Brooklyn
Killing is an essential part of an organized crime racket – for criminals understand only the law which comes from the barrel of a gun. Every mob must, from time to time, mete out its own justice,...
View ArticleJohnny Spanish
Johnny Spanish was a Jewish gangster who was a rival of former partner "Kid Dropper" Nathan Kaplan during a garment workers' strike which later become known as the Second Labor Sluggers War in...
View ArticleJewish Strong Arms - The Labor Slugger wars
With the industrialization of the United States and the emergence of labor unions in the late nineteenth century and into early 1900s street gangs began to be hired by companies as strikebreakers and...
View ArticleOwney Madden ( Jewish by Association)
Owney "The Killer" Madden was a leading Irish gangster in Manhattan during Prohibition. He also ran the famous Cotton Club and was a leading boxing promoter in the 1930s.Early life and the Gopher...
View ArticleJack "Legs" Diamond (Not Jewish)
Jack "Legs" Diamond also known as Gentleman Jack, was the alias of Jack Moran, an Irish-American gangster based out of New York City. A bootlegger and close associate of gambler Arnold Rothstein, he...
View ArticleMike Heitler
Michael "The Pike" Heitler was a Prohibition gangster involved in prostitution for the Chicago Outfit.Michael Heitler began operating brothels in Chicago during the early 1900s based out of West...
View ArticleMaxie Eisen
Maxie Eisen was a Jewish Prohibition gangster and labor racketeer allied with Dion O'Banion in the early 1920s and later for the Saltis-McErlane Gang after O'Banion's death in 1924. As President of the...
View ArticleAbout Steve Kaplan
Not far away, up in Atlanta, the lights to the Gold Club have finally gone out. The club, once a prominent Atlanta strip club, was strung by a federal indictment which claimed the bar was a front for...
View ArticleCyclone Louie
Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis was an early New York gangster and member of the Eastman Gang under Max "Kid Twist" ZwerbachBorn Sam Tietch, Lewis performed as a wrestler and strongman, supposedly wrapping...
View ArticleThe Half Moon Hotel
The Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, New York was where Abe Reles, informant for the FBI who brought down numerous members of Murder, Inc. "fell" to his death on November 12, 1941 a few hours before he...
View ArticleSeymour "Blue Jaw" Magoon
Seymour "Blue Jaw" Magoon was a Jewish hitman in New York's Murder Inc gang, one of many members who were implicated by the testimony of former member and government informant Abe "Kid Twist" Reles.A...
View ArticleThomas E. Dewey - The Man who brought Murder Inc. to its knees !
Thomas Edmund Dewey was the Governor of New York (1943-1955) and the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency in 1944 and 1948. As a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican...
View ArticleStanley Diamond
born c.a. January 4th, 1922 New York City. New York-March 31st, 1991 New York City, New York was an American-Jewish mob associate of the Lucchese crime family. The character of Lester Diamond in the...
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