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| | Louis Buchalter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (6 February 1897 - 4 March 1944) was a Jewish - American mobster who wasthe notorious head of Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate. |
 | | Born Louis Bookhouse in the Brownsville neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York, Buchalter was a member of the Amboy Dukes, astreet gang in Brownsville named after Amboy Street (a local road), as a young man. He became involved in push cart shoplifting and by 1919 had served two prisonterms. |
 | | In the early 1930s, Luciano, Buchalter (who had taken on the nickname Lepke,meaning "Little Louis" in Yiddish), and Johnny Torrio (the former Chicago boss and mentor of Al Capone) formed the National Crime Syndicate, an umbrella organization of all major organizedcrime groups coast-to-coast. |
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