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 ...

NEW YORK Daily News, Thursday morning, March 2, 1944: Lepke is talking. In a dynamite-laden statement, involving at least three names known throughout America, the condemned underworld leader has told ...

You have to go back to the days of World War II for the last time a major New York mob boss was executed, the same fate that federal prosecutors hope Bonanno gangster and once acting boss Vincent ...

On this day, March 4, in 1944, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter — the head of Murder, Inc. — was executed in New York. He is the only major mob boss to be executed in the United States. Suspect in Montana bar ...

Last August, with the hot breaths of Tom Dewey and J. Edgar Hoover both on his neck, Gangster Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, a fugitive for two years, chose as the lesser of two evils to give himself up to ...

On this day, Aug. 24, in 1939, the leader of the mob hit squad, “Murder Inc.” surrendered to columnist Walter Winchell, who then turned him over to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In 1937, Louis “Lepke” ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This is the story of the canary who sang but couldn't fly. That line is from Murder, Inc, a 1960 movie about the Brooklyn gangsters ...