Louis Buchalter
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (February 6, 1897 – March 4, 1944) was an American mobster and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s. After Dutch Schultz's request of the Mafia Commission for permission to kill his enemy, U.S. Attorney Thomas Dewey, the Commission decided to kill Schultz after Schultz disobeyed the Commission by trying to carry out the hit after it had been rejected. Buchalter assigned Calabrian immigrant Albert Anastasia to assassinate Schultz.
In 1936, Murder, Inc. killers, acting on Buchalter's orders, gunned down a Brooklyn businessman and candy store owner named Joseph Rosen. Buchalter became the only major mob boss to have been personally convicted and sentenced to receive the death penalty in the United States after being convicted of a specific murder.
Read more about Louis Buchalter: Early Career, Murder, Inc., Downfall, Conviction and Execution, In Popular Culture
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