Louis "Lepke" Buchalter--the nickname Lepke means "Little Louis" in Yiddish)--was one of the top Jewish-American gangsters of the Depression Era and the only major mob boss to ever have been executed by authorities for his crimes. He was born February 12, 1897, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His introduction to crime was pushcart shoplifting, and...
Head of Murder, Inc., the national crime syndicate's enforcement arm. As many as 100 deaths were attributed to Lepke himself, while those under his control may have slain 1,000.
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"Lepke" is Yiddish for "Little Louis"
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Played by Tony Curtis in the movie Lepke (1975)
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The only mob boss ever to die in the Electric Chair, he was convicted of the murder of a trucking firm operator on the testimony of Abe Reles, a gunmen for Murder, Inc., who cut a deal the Brooklyn District Attorney. On 12 November 1941, before he could testify against mob boss Albert Anastasia, Reles, while in police custody, "fell" from the 6th-story window of his hotel.
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