Louis Buchalter

Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (February 6, 1897 – March 4, 1944) was a Jewish American mobster and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s. After Dutch Schultz' request of the Mafia Commission for permission to kill his enemy, U.S. Attorney Thomas Dewey, the Commission decided to kill Schultz in order to prevent the hit. Buchalter assigned Calabrian immigrant Albert Anastasia to assassinate Schultz. In 1936, Murder Inc. killers, acting on Buchalter's orders, gunned down a Brooklyn businessman 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. Buchalter took the nickname...