He was executed along with his partner and boss Louis Buchalter in Sing Sing penitentiary.

Among these were several of the mob-affiliated hitmen belonging to the murder-for-hire group Murder, Inc., which was headed up by major mob leaders Louis " Lepke " Buchalter and Albert Anastasia.

Originally headed by Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, and later by Albert " The Mad Hatter " Anastasia, Murder, Inc. was responsible for between 400 and 1, 000 contract killings, until the group was exposed in the early 1940s by informer and group member Abe " Kid Twist " Reles.

Buchalter assigned Calabrian immigrant Albert Anastasia to assassinate Schultz.

According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was born from an idea of Johnny " The Fox " Torrio and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Abner " Longy " Zwillman, Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Vince Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia .< ref > Carl Sifakis, < cite > The Mafia Encyclopedia: second edition </ cite >, ( Checkmark Books )</ ref > Others describe the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers .< ref > Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau ,< cite > Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob </ cite > Paddington Press, 1979 </ ref >

Murder Inc. consisted of two factions, The Jewish Brownsville Boys headed by Abe " Kid Twist " Reles ( who reported to Lepke Buchalter and Gurrah Shapiro ), and the Italian Ocean Hill Hooligans led by Harry " Happy " Maione who reported to Albert Anastasia.

Murder, Inc. was directed by the brutal Louis " Lepke " Buchalter ( another member of the Syndicate board ) and the nefarious Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia.

Anastasia would send Cosa Nostra murder contracts to mobster Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, the boss of Murder, Inc. Capone would recruit the individual hitmen from the Reles and Maione gangs.

Buchalter had previously ruined Rosen's trucking business and was now afraid that Rosen would implicate him in criminal activity.

In September 1931, Abbandando reportedly helped Buchalter and gang member Abe Reles eliminate The Shapiro Gang, rivals from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who were trying to take over some of the men's rackets.

Louis " Lepke " Buchalter had Orgen assassinated in 1927 in order to take over his operations.

Louis " Lepke " Buchalter had Orgen assassinated in 1927 in order to take over his operations.

Buchalter began, at an early age, to control the streets of New York City.

To reward Anastasia's loyalty, Luciano placed him and Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, the nation's leading labor racketeer, in control of the Syndicate's enforcement arm, Murder, Inc.

Buchalter took an interest in the industry, acquiring ownership of a number of trucking firms and control of local unions of truckdrivers in the garment district, while acquiring an ownership interest in some garment firms and local unions.

Orgen gained control of Kaplan's operations until his death in 1927, possibly by Buchalter and Shapiro.

Buchalter took an interest in the industry, acquiring ownership of a number of trucking firms and control of local unions of truckdrivers in the garment district, while acquiring an ownership interest in some garment firms and local unions.

He was responsible for turning Louis " Lepke " Buchalter of Murder, Inc. over to Hoover.

After he was convicted on the narcotics trafficking charges, Buchalter was turned over to Thomas Dewey on racketeering charges, which resulted in a sentence of 30 years to life.

Rosen was a former garment industry trucker whose union Buchalter took over in exchange for ownership of a Sutter Avenue candy store.

In 1928, after the murder of Arnold " The Big Bankroll " Rothstein, Luciano and Louis " Lepke " Buchalter took over Rothstein's large drug importation operation.

Some of them, such as Lepke Buchalter remained in the industry as labor racketeers who took over unions for the opportunities for raking off dues and extorting payoffs from employers with the threat of strikes.

He later established his own firm, Taylor and Buchalter Solicitors, with the late Don Buchalter, and practised as a solicitor for over 50 years before retiring from active practice in his 70s.

Some of them, such as Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, remained in the industry as labor racketeers who took over unions for the opportunities for raking off dues and extorting payoffs from employers with the threat of a strike.

* March 4 – In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing, along with Emanuel Weiss, and Louis Capone.

In the 1930s Buchalter used Murder, Inc. to murder witnesses and suspected informants when he was investigated by crusading prosecutor Thomas Dewey.

Buchalter called his group " The Combination ", but the press labeled it " Murder, Inc ." Unlike the Five Families, which required Sicilian or Southern Italian ancestry for membership, Murder Inc. included Jews, Italians, and members of other ethnic groups.

After Abbandando's conviction, six other members of Murder, Inc., including Buchalter and Maione, were also convicted of murder and executed based on Reles ' testimony.

Louis " Lepke " Buchalter ( February 6, 1897March 4, 1944 ) was an American mobster and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Buchalter was portrayed by David J. Stewart in the 1960 film Murder Inc., Gene Roth and Joseph Ruskin in The Untouchables as well as by John Vivyan and Shepherd Sanders in The Lawless Years television series.

Adonis used his political influence to assist members of the Luciano crime family, such as Luciano and Genovese, and mob associates such as Meyer Lansky and Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc.

As a syndicate board member, Adonis, along with Buchalter, may have been responsible for assigning some murder contracts to Murder Inc.

Murder, Inc., rubbed out anyone that Buchalter even suspected of being an informant.

* 1897 – Louis Buchalter, American organized crime figure ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster ( b. 1897 ) ( executed )

Dewey ruthlessly pressed Luciano on his long arrest record and his relationships with well-known gangsters such as Ciro Terranova, Louis Buchalter, and Joseph Masseria.

In addition to carrying out crime in New York City and acting as enforcers for New York mobster Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, they accepted murder contracts from mob bosses all around the United States.

Buchalter, in particular, and Joe Adonis occasionally, gave the outfit its orders from the board of directors of the syndicate.

Rubin had disobeyed Buchalter's orders to leave town and " disappear " in order to avoid being summoned as a witness against Buchalter.

Therefore in an ironic twist Buchalter actually saved Dewey's life, which allowed Dewey to continue his efforts to bring down Buchalter.

Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Mendy Weiss, Louis Capone and Philip (" Little Farvel ") Cohen were indicted for the murder of candy-store owner Joe Rosen.

The gang leader that the mafiosi used the most was Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, the young Jewish leader of the " Gorilla Boys " gang.