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Feb 7, 2015 · As a labor racketeer who controlled New York’s Lower East Side garment industry, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter became the overseer of the notorious killing-on-assignment machine know as "Murder Inc." Impeccably researched by organized crime historian Paul R. Kavieff, this book traces his story from childhood, through his incredibly sophisticated ...
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Louis Buchalter was born on February 6, 1897, on Lower East Side, Manhattan, in a Jewish American family. His father, Barnett Buchalter, owned a hardware store. It was his mother, Rose Buchalter, who gave him the nickname ‘Lepkeleh’ meaning Little Louis in Yiddish which later became Lepke the name with which he was universally known.
123 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Budget. $900,000 [2] [3] Lepke is a 1975 film starring Tony Curtis as the Jewish-American gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. [4] It is often regarded by film critics as one of Tony Curtis's most underrated movies and one of his finest performances [who?]
Louis "Lepke" ("Little Louis" in Yiddish) Buchalter was born in New York's Lower East Side in 1897. Despite coming from a family of upwardly mobile, law abiding citizens--his father owned a hardware store, one of his brother's became a dentist, another a rabbi, another a pharmacist, etc.--Buchalter took to a life of crime at an early age.
May 23, 1975 · Lepke: Directed by Menahem Golan. With Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan, Warren Berlinger. Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter is head of Murder Inc., the syndicate that spattered the headlines of the day with blood.
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The State of New York wants to electrocute a grubby little murderer named Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, but cannot: he is safe in Federal custody on a 14-year dope-peddling sentence (TIME,...
Jun 24, 2019 · Louis “Lepke” Buchalter was a 1930s New York City racketeer. Authorities believed Albert Anastasia appointed him to run his Murder, Inc., enforcement squad. Crime buster Thomas Dewey will set his sights in Lepke as an example of Mob violence and will eventually prosecute him for murder and obtain a death sentence. Eventually, Lepke will ...
