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	Louis "Lepke" Buchalter/Murder Inc. FBI Files - Photos
		Louis Bookhouse, also known as Louis Buchalter or Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was born on February 6, 1897, in New York City.
		Buchalter was denied an appeal bond, however, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Martin T. Manton overruled the decision, and Buchalter was released on $3000 bail.
		Buchalter was scheduled to be executed on March 2, 1944 at 11:00 PM, along with his associates Louis Capone and Mendy Weiss.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /buchalter.html (1446 words)

	Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Buchalter (known as "Lepke") has the distinction of being the first organized crime lord to be sent to the electric chair.
		New York-born Buchalter was the administrative head of a Syndicate enforcement group known in the media as "Murder, Inc." Under Lepke, the Murder, Inc., group would perform cold-blooded hits (devoid of detectable motive) ordered by the Mafia's ruling commission.
		Buchalter also controlled labor unions in Manhattan's garment industry and apparently dabbled in narcotics trafficking.
	www.onewal.com /w-buchal.html (134 words)

	Murder, Inc.
		Murder, Inc was established in New York and initially lead by Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel and Meyer Lansky who also supplied the first killers from their gangs Jewish and Italian gangsters in Brooklyn N.Y. Later it was controlled by Louis Buchalter[?] and Albert Anastasia[?].
		In the 1930’s Louis Bucalter used Murder Inc to murder witnesses and suspected informants when he was investigated by district attorney Thomas E. Dewey.
		Louis Buchalter was executed at Sing Sing Prison[?] in Ossining, New York[?] on March 4, 1933.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mu/Murder_Inc..html (501 words)

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		Born in 1897 to Eastern European Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Buchalter took on the nickname "Lepke" at an early age.
		At the time, Buchalter was serving out his racketeering sentence at Leavenworth, and New York state authorities demanded that he be turned over to them for execution.
		Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, dead at age 47, was the most powerful organized crime figure ever to die by legal execution.
	yona.guamus.com /profile/Lepke_Buchalter (1362 words)

	Gangland.net - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Louis Buchalter was born in New York on 12th February, 1897.
		In August 1939, Buchalter was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison for narcotics offences.
		Found guilty, Buchalter was executed at Sing Sing State Prison on 4th March, 1944.
	www.gangland.net /buchalter.htm (119 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
		The FBI began inquiring into the racketeering tactics of Buchalter and Shapiro in 1932, which led to the indictment of one hundred and fifty-eight individuals, by a Federal Grand Jury in the Southern District of New York, on November 6, 1933.
		Buchalter and Shapiro had little contact with the members of the combine, ordinarily their contacts were limited to one key member in each group.
		Buchalter and Shapiro had reached the position in life where they could depend upon hired thugs to do their dirty work for them.
	www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/famcases/furdress/furdress.htm (3611 words)

	Louis Buchalter
		Buchalter was the only mob boss ever to die in the Electric Chair.
		For his support, Buchalter was awarded an honorary seat on the board of the National Crime Syndicate (despite Luciano's open minded policies, no Jews could actually sit on the board).
		In 1940, Albert Anastasia began lobbying with Buchalter to surrender to federal authorites to answer on federal narcotics charges that were being brought against him.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/mafia/louis-buchalter (691 words)

	Louis Lepke Buchalter & Ron Arons' "Jews of Sing Sing" Lecture
		The rabbi said he wanted to be there for Buchalter on Death Row as the condemned man went through his final hours but the scheduled timing conflicted with outside synagogue Sabbath duties.
		Buchalter claim he had sought a review of his conviction on charges he ordered Louis Capone, Emanuel Mandy Weiss, and Pittsburgh Phil Strauss to killed candy story owner Joe Rosen, a former trucker, who could have been a potential witness against Lepke on the crime lord's muscling truck firms.
		On Nov. 30, Buchalter, Weiss and Capone were convicted and two days later were sentenced to be executed at Sing Sing the first week of January, 1942.
	www.correctionhistory.org /singsing/ronaronsjewsofsingsing/lepke.html (1128 words)

	The Last Days of Lepke Buchalter
		Condemned to the electric chair with Lepke were Emmanuel "Mendy" Weiss and Louis Capone, for the murder of candy storeowner Joseph Rosen; and Joseph Palmer and Vincent Sallami, for the murder of Brooklyn detective Joseph Miccio.
		With the witness room packed with 36 on-lookers, Louis Capone was the first to take his turn in the hot seat.
		At 11:16, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was declared dead.
	crimemagazine.com /buchalter.htm (2709 words)

	West Wing: Questions about the Crime
		Anastasia showed a certain ability early on for killing which helped him be promoted to operating head, along with Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter, of Murder Inc. This organization of contract killers was reportedly responsible for upto 500 deaths.
		Albert 'the Mad Hatter Anastasia, long time friend of Luciano, along with Garment District king pin Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter were perfect choices for the leadership of Murder Inc. Since it was a separate entity, Murder Inc. supplied its members with lawyers when they needed one and bought their own police protection and politicians.
		Louis Amberg, named 'Pretty' because of his extreme ugliness, was the terror of Brownsville by the time he was twenty.
	westwing.bewarne.com /fourthquestions/4crime.html (1281 words)

	Spooky New York
		Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, an infamous Jewish mob boss - and a close associate of Lucky Luciano - rests in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing.
		Herman "Hyman" Amberg, along with his brothers Louis "Pretty" and Joseph Amberg were said to be feared in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn during the 1920s and 1930s.
		Hyman Amberg was arrested for the murder of a Brooklyn jeweler in 1926 and placed in the "Tombs" jail in Manhattan to await trial.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/new_york_city_reitred/49680/2 (468 words)

	Louis Buchalter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Once the federal government finally turned Lepke over to the state of New York, his execution date was set for 2 March.
		However, New York state's highest court decided to give the case one final review, forcing Dewey (who was now the governor of New York state) to grant Buchalter, Weiss and Capone a 48-hour reprieve.
		Louis "Lepke" Buchalter surrenders to J. Edgar Hoover
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Buchalter (1201 words)

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		Anastasia and Buchalter were two of the most brutal men ever to walk the streets of New York.
		In order to save himself from a date with the electric chair, Reles decided to turn against his former employers, Murder Inc. It was the first time that law enforcement officials became aware of the closely regarded secret.
		His testimony on May 16, 1940, supplied enough evidence to help send Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter to the electric chair in Sing Sing prison in 1944 for the murder of Joseph Rosen that Lepke planned in 1935.
	www.geocities.com /murdersrus/MurderInc.html (1018 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - this just in ... Mob News and Features
		David R. Leisure, whose involvement in a series of car bombings and gangland violence rocked St. Louis in the early 1980s, is scheduled to die by injection Sept. 1.
		Leisure, 49, was just one of many players in an organized-crime feud that left three dead in St. Louis, one maimed in a car bombing, and the grandson of Michaels wounded in a shotgun ambush.
		Yet while many involved in St. Louis' organized-crime faction were convicted of state or federal crimes and sent to prison, only Leisure will be executed.
	www.americanmafia.com /News/8-5-99_David_Leisure.html (751 words)

	Microsoft Word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Buchalter war das Kind jÃ¼discherEmigranten aus Russland in der Lower East Side von Manhattan (New York).
		Louis Buchalter lernte kurz darauf Jacob Shapiro kennen, und gemeinsam spezialisierten sie sich auf Schutzgelderpressungen von Ladenbesitzern in der Lower East Side.
		MÃ¤rz1944 wurde Louis Buchalter in Sing Sing auf dem elektrischen Stuhlhingerichtet, nachdem er wegen zweier Morde verurteilt worden war.
	www.workfriendly.net /browse/Office2003Blue/http/de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Buchalter (1011 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Life and Times of Lepke Buchalter : America's Most Ruthless Labor Racketeer: Books: Paul R Kavieff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Kavieff's brisk biography of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, the only major crime boss in U.S. history to be executed, unevenly weaves the labor racketeer's story with that of the bustling early 20th century New York mob scene, resulting in a book that's not quite a biography and not quite an underworld history.
		Louis Lepke Buchalter was the most powerful and ruthless organized crime boss in the history of the U.S. underworld.
		A business genius with a penchant for murder, his rackets penetrated the garment, banking, and flour trucking industries in New York.
	www.amazon.ca /Life-Times-Lepke-Buchalter-Racketeer/dp/1569802912 (324 words)

	Lepke Dies At Sing Sing
		Of the Jewish mobsters, he may have been the most bloody and Lepke (Yiddish for Little Louis) had a reputation for enjoying his work.
		For six years, Buchalter functioned as the head of Murder, Inc., the national crime syndicate's enforcement arm.
		Before joining with the national Mafia, Buchalter worked as a labor racketeer in Manhattan's garment district and later branched out to control of other local unions including bakery delivery trucks.
	www.laborers.org /Lepke.html (486 words)

	The Straight Dope: Have any millionaires ever been executed in the United States? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Labor racketeer Louis "Lepke" Buchalter made millions in the 1920s and '30s.
		Dozens died, but the scorched-earth policy backfired, encouraging targets to take their chances with the law; one witness at Buchalter's eventual murder trial in 1941 agreed to testify only after being shot in the head on Buchalter's instructions.
		Buchalter was convicted despite spending an estimated quarter million on his defense.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/060630.html (823 words)

	MURDER, INC. by Mark Gribben
		Lepke Buchalter was on the run, both from the feds, who wanted him for a narcotics charge, and the New York authorities, who were desperate to nail him for his Murder, Inc. and Syndicate activities.
		And even if that one was Louis Buchalter, the guy who helped Lucky Luciano build the Syndicate, the national crime cartel would survive at any cost.
		With Albert Anastasia at the wheel and Louis Capone’s sister-in-law and her son as cover, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter left his Coney Island hideout and traveled over the Brooklyn Bridge through the Manhattan warehouse district.
	origin-www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/gang/inc/10.html (1146 words)

	Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Rabbi Katz explained is a very busy day for him since he has synagogue duties outside the prison.
		Buchalter didn't look the part with his suits and the general appearance of a mildly affluent man of business.
		But his wool suits couldn't warm his eyes, said to be like blocks of ice.
	www.gambino.com /bio/lepke.htm (331 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act - Reading Room - Reading Room - Louis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was born on February 6, 1897, in New York City.
		He was later known as a member of "Murder, Incorporated" for all the killings and crimes he committed or ordered committed.
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	foia.fbi.gov.cob-web.org:8888 /foiaindex/louislepkebuchalter.htm (189 words)

	The St. Louis Family
		Sobbing with her head resting on a priest’s shoulder, she watched as her brother mouthed the words “I love you,” as a lethal dose of drugs ended his life.
		Incredibly, David Leisure’s death was the first execution of a member of organized crime since the electrocution of Louis “Lepke” Buchalter at Sing Sing in 1944.
		The newspapers described Trupiano as “flashy, temperamental, profane, averse to neckties and a compulsive gambler.” The FBI kept him under so close surveillance that he was arrested in 1991 for running an illegal gin rummy game in the back room of a used car dealership on South Kingshighway.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/louis/9.html (1815 words)

	Amazon.fr : Brownsville: Livres en anglais: Neil Kleid,Jake Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The authors trace the way in which a young boy might be seduced by the wrong side through relating the story of Allie Tannenbaum, who first meets the wiseguys on the grounds of his own father's place in the Catskills.
		Grade 9 Up–Set in Brooklyn during the height of Prohibition, this atmospheric novel focuses on the infamous Jewish gangsters known as Murder, Inc.: Louis Lepke Buchalter, Abe Reles, Dutch Schultz, and the Shapiro brothers.
		It's a tale of power, murder, and corruption as seen through the eyes of Allie Tannenbaum, beginning in the 1920s when he is still a teenager and continuing through the mid-1950s.
	www.amazon.fr /Brownsville-Neil-Kleid/dp/1561634581 (564 words)

	The Gangster and the Governor
		The notorious gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was one such figure.
		Louis Buchalter was born in 1897 and grew up on the Lower East Side of New York, one of 13 children.
		His doting mother nicknamed him "Lepkele" and he is known in history simply as Lepke.
	www.ajhs.org /publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=269 (932 words)

	Abe Reles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Reles, and gunmen such as Louis Lepke Buchalter and Albert Anastasia, carried out executions for money.
		In 1940 Reles was arrested for murder and to avoid prosecution for this crime, agreed a deal with William O'Dwyer, the Brooklyn district attorney.
		Both men were arrested and Louis Lepke Buchalter was convicted on his testimony.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACreles.htm (247 words)

	Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
		It was Thursday, March 2, 1944, and time was running out in Sing Sing prison for Louis “Lepke” Buchalter and the four men facing execution with him.
		Condemned to the electric chair with him were lieutenants Emmanuel “Mendy” Weiss and Louis Capone, for the murder of candy storeowner Joseph Rosen; and Joseph Palmer and Vincent Sallami, for the murder of Brooklyn detective Joseph Miccio.
		With the witness room packed with thirty-six on-lookers, Louis Capone was the first to take his turn in the hot seat.
	www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_11-1-99.html (2737 words)

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