Murder Inc, the Jewish and Italian Contract Killers for The Syndicate ft. Kid Twist, Lepke

In the 1920's, high level gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky had a plan to bring some semblance of order to the underworld. Together with a few other kingpins, they formed the Syndicate: a collection of the most powerful organized crime figures across the country that operated like a corporation with a board of directors that voted on everything related to gangsters. To make sure their judgments were respected, they needed an enforcement arm. Enter Murder Incorporated.
Emerging from the Happy Maione's Ocean Hill Hooligans and Abe "Kid Twist" Reles Brownsville Troop, this collection of Jewish and Italian hit men would bring new meaning to the term "contract killer," dropping upwards of a thousand bodies across the country in a 10 year span as they carried out the Syndicate's bidding. Men like Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss, otherwise known as Pep, who had a confirmed 30 hits and might have had as many as 100, became some of the most prolific killers the world of organized crime has ever seen.
Based on the books "Tough Jews" by Rich Cohen and "Murder, Inc" by Burton Turkus.
Underworld is a podcast about organized crime around the world, by reporters Danny Gold and Sean Williams. From Balkan warlords to Brooklyn wiseguys, we’ll expose the barely-visible networks that affect everyone’s lives. Bringing our experience hunting some of the world’s most dangerous people, we’ll show how gangs fought to the top of their food chains - and how some got cut down to size.
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[@judithcampbell1705]

Lucky and Meyer put this forward and they formed the commission. Brilliant. Those two were my favorite. Thank you 💛 so much, I really enjoy listening about the great ones and how what they put together.

[@demetriusmixon4141]

Give Christopher Walken his credit: "If a nickle bag is sold in the park, I want in!"

[@predator3.0gamingchannel21]

Broadwalk empire covered this well, very interesting time, good episode lads

[@darrentinonzii340]

HOODLUM Film was long before that, tim roth plays Dutch

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

@Eli Lis no way. It was formed in the 1930s.

[@nakdad]

I had family in murder inc and the purple gang. I’m Jewish obviously and I have no pride in these guys they were a scourge. But I hear the way you’re putting it I get it. 914

[@jayfelsberg1931]

According to Paul Sann in his classic book, "Kill the Dutchman," another reason Luciano had to bump off Dutch was that Lucky had been in contact with Dutch's No. 2, Bo Weinberg, about taking over the numbers rackets in partnership with Weinberg. Sann described Bo as interested. Bruce Willis plays the doomed Bo in the famous cement overshoes scene in "Billy Bathgate." Just another reason Lucky was pissed off at Dutch. Luciano did get the numbers racket (minus Abbadaba Berman, alas) when the smoke cleared at the Palace Chop House; Lepke got everything else. Business is business. Sann's story of how Dutch got control of the numbers rackets in Harlem and East Harlem is precious. His tale of Dutch's last ramblings is also excellent.

[@BradBrassman]

Yes, good book!

[@koogle612]

At 57 I recently learned my grandmothers cousin was Harry (Happy) Maione (mayone). This I learned while in NY attending my mothers funeral. My paternal grandmother Olga Del Buono's family came from Fume Freddo near Calabria. Harry was not a point of pride in the family. My grandfather Joseph Mascaro was a doctor his brothers worked to pay for his degree. He later took care of them. The subject matter of your conversation is off point - cocaine? Vs alcohol? Harry was from what I hear, very conscious of the danger he brought to family with simple visits. Sounds like you did a google search on the subject. So much more to it all.

[@judithcampbell1705]

I grew up in Miami and couldn't help but to be around mafia. They were everywhere. Wild times.

[@coqui914]

I’m puertorican and the Albanians in the Bronx made the gambinos disperse like RAID your absolutely correct

[@ecmack5756]

Just found your podcasts! Love from Northern Ireland

[@rrymo4079]

Proddy

[@ecmack5756]

@@rrymo4079 🤧🤧🤧

[@Thorkildzen]

Even though Charlie Workman was Jewish he worked exclusively for Luciano he represented Luciano on that hit Mandy Weiss represented lepke

[@JacobKing-nj2xq]

Where can I find the main photo being used during the narration for purchase or download?

[@demetriusmixon4141]

Some of us in Brooklyn say that Ocean Hill and Brownsville are the same thing.

[@gregorybathurst4326]

Rich Cohen's book was a real eye opener and educated the reader Murder inc . Lepke the leopard was the only mob boss to get the electric chair .

[@DocHollidaysGal1985]

Maione is pronounced May-Own, according mobsters: murder Inc. a show from the biography channel they made about these guys a few years ago. Great episode! If you ever do a tour of gangsters in NY, let us know!

[@elliotspencer5300]

Well duh.

[@eamonwright7488]

Harry Maione had an African American girlfriend. I bet there wasn’t many people heckling them. Harry was a notorious practical joker during jobs. He once dressed like a female on a hit. Fascinating character indeed.

[@מיכאלזיידמן]

I could never understand why a great country like america let this happen in thier country ,and all these movies that make great heroes of these poeple....

[@eamonwright7488]

@@מיכאלזיידמן Because America is infatuated with violence. When these gangs and the subsequent movies were released was during one of the worst recessions ever and the outlaws were glorified and admired by the public.

[@chrisbond7324]

I know that place to Palace Chophouse it's not there but the street it's on is around the corner from a place I hang out at I can imagine all that going on that night

[@jamesmark-ds6lk]

i would like for you to list the 30 to 40 mob guys killed within 2 days of Maranzano getting whacked.

[@drizzyuzumaki8753]

Right I was thinking hard about that 😂😂

[@encoreunefois1X]

How is doing O.C. podcasts your things but you don't know about Murder inc or Cosa Nostra?

[@DakovDakash]

Murder inc is the edgiest name I’ve ever heard

[@roryschweinfurter4111]

Anyone interested in any of this material should check out a book called BLOODLETTERS AND BADMEN by. J. Robert Nash it's an encyclopedia of true crime

[@cynthiasnowden600]

My 6th great uncle is in book 2 of that series. Google William Preston Longley

[@demetriusmixon4141]

Me too, do the tour. The dash-cam Italian dude. He goes to the church that used to be the Gemini Louge, where the Gemini murder method was perfected.

[@PAPERBOYS-ek6ke]

Guys when is the next podcast please? Something to look forward to also are you going to cover Ecuador Please. Kind Regards.

[@theyoungmanthegun2049]

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[@siduk2636]

apparently dutch shultz had money stashed away in gold coins or something, crazy amounts of money. can't remember where exactly i heard but he was definately this same character

[@darrentinonzii340]

You heard it on every documentary about him lol

[@AnthonyGuilaini]

Tyson was from Brownsville Cus DaMato trained him up in Catskill

[@roryschweinfurter4111]

Tony Curtis made a movie called Lepke Where he played the title character

[@unc1589]

At least one guy gets it. Interesting side note… Jewish gangsters lasted only one generation. It never passed down to their kids. They weren’t gangsters in the old country. It was out of sheer immigrant desperation. Then it stopped.

[@Acez616]

Please do Bumpy Johnson!

[@Smurfomatic]

Great episode, fellas

[@Dopesickgypsy]

Who wrote that intro ? That was the best part of this

[@TheUnderworldPodcast]

We did.

[@Dopesickgypsy]

@@TheUnderworldPodcast well done

[@thomasmcnally6712]

Please do a video on Ohio organized crime! Appreciation from Youngstown

[@terryt2728]

My mom did the printing for a Youngstown mob club in Columbus called the Agura back in the early 70's. She saw Queen live there before they were big. They had a lot of big acts.

[@haymonsworld14]

Please do a episode on the demise of Kinahan crime group! Their leader had been managing fighters on espn like Tyson fury! Dubai just seized their assets

[@hanscombe72]

I had only heard about murder inc from an episode of the west wing. Communications director Toby Ziegler’s father was in murder inc.

[@JohnMccann-ld3yr]

Lepke was never the leader of murder inc, he was just the guy who called on them regularly To do a hit

[@spenser6353]

Who was the leader? Anastasia?

[@BradBrassman]

Murder Inc is a movie they badly need to re-make when Hollywood get done with all this Mavel shit. Tom Hanks as Dewey for me!

[@MjahedTV]

Can you do a Video on daniel kinahan?

[@TheUnderworldPodcast]

bro we did in our 3rd episode

[@MjahedTV]

@@TheUnderworldPodcast awesome thanks I will watch it

[@h2odivr]

background music is way too loud.

[@seanwilliams1454]

Turn the volume down then, or pay for it.

[@certified2134]

Watched a few episodes. Why do the Co host just be just blurting out weird stuff that has nothing to do with the stories you tell?🤦🏾‍♂️

[@TheUnderworldPodcast]

Because it’s our podcast and we do what it want. Don’t like it? Don’t listen. We’re here to amuse yourselves and fans, not you.

[@Heymanesaymane]

5:18 i totally agree

[@littleblackduck3134]

Didn't Hoover once say there was no organized crime in America?

[@williamrabon8839]

Narrator forgot Louis Buchalter when mentioning the Syndicate hierarchy.

[@TheUnderworldPodcast]

my guy, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter is literally in the title of the video

[@gianni-1682]

I was raised in newark deep ties to the under world in nj ppl just don’t know 🥸

[@gianni-1682]

@fantomas maybe back befor the 80s now it’s mostly run by gangs and drity

[@gianni-1682]

@fantomas I’n this order blacks 65% Spanish white other

[@Jacey750]

I thought Mike Tyson came from Catskills.

[@EddieDrayton]

No...he only went as a troubled youngsters under Cus de Mato's boxing school, whose training camp was in the Catskills...he was born and raised in Brownsville....NY

[@yasmin8851]

Chicago does mob tours.

[@claudetteholloway2367]

It's LEP- KEE...

[@jeffe9429]

New boss same as the old boss.... you can't judge crummy jokes next pod lol

[@chrissuprenant1500]

Yes there was one in Boston and they were there own Italian gang but still obeyed NY

[@kemdar72]

anastasia came in on a work freighter and just stayed in the states

[@masonmiller9907]

Would have liked to give you a chance but got so little story telling in the first 10-15 min I lost interest. Good luck

[@TheUnderworldPodcast]

oh no how will we ever survive without you

[@masonmiller9907]

Lmao instead of take the criticism and use it to be better, you troll your own would be subscribers for your shortcomings?? Not a great plan 😂

[@TheUnderworldPodcast]

@@masonmiller9907 lol you just said you weren't subscribing, no one cares what you think. we've got 20k others who seem to enjoy it enough without us even putting up video.

[@WSpa-if3og]

Murder Inc v DeMeo crew.

[@elvinkrigsman6956]

Murder inc not even close 1000 cross country bodies and richer

[@mariomooring3438]

ALL about Business family s

[@jeremyhouchens8711]

30-40 bosses in 2-3 days. Come on now

[@TheUnderworldPodcast]

they weren't called "Murder inc" cause they were bad at murder

[@bobkotowitz5989]

The candy store, hey

[@jeffe9429]

Mug off? That ain't American English....

[@alundavies8402]

It’s English English it means make a fool out of someone

[@davidpurcell8189]

The brownsville boy's

[@davehill3639]

As good as the podcast was, it would have been much better minus the British guy & those really lame jokes.

[@ErnieLeblanc]

No,...Stupid Background NOISE!

[@marymusic8920]

Too much "buddy chit-chat;" which is rather tiresome, and awkward.... Looking for a more professionally-presented channel, with smooth delivery....

[@TheUnderworldPodcast]

Mary, I can't express to you how little anyone cares. Go make your own podcast. We have 25,000 weekly listeners and separate respected journalism careers. Go elsewhere and stop whining.

[@mchrome3366]

Too much idle chitchat by Sean ruining the rhythm of the story. You may not like this criticism but it is what it is and I’m not the only one to recognize this.

[@nakdad]

Kid twist

[@matthewjoseph9577]

I’m sorry Sean ruins the show.

[@certified2134]

I said the same thing .. seems like he just listens til he hears a keyword that triggers a random thought that has nothing to do with the actual story

[@TheUnderworldPodcast]

You know Sean leads like half the episodes too?

[@mchrome3366]

Maybe I’m late to this conversation but I can’t help but agree that Sean is adding just idle talk out of boredom just interrupting way more than contributing anything relevant to the video. I guess I’m not alone.

[@Mossgreenery]

The banter makes the show in my opinion

[@CrownroyalBlack-c1p]

This is not correct information

[@seffthechef4236bo]

Comment

[@mikegreen5596]

Music ruins presentation. Very poor

[@klivityloja3067]

And people look up to the godfather movies POS. Extorting mom and pop shops aroun the world. Terrible

[@fevergaming1]

Kid Twist was a snitch

[@jasonmcroberts7994]

Yea it was a bit of a dumb Qn! "Where are the Jewish coming from, From Nazi Germany"? Right after the other guy had said it was 1920! Lol.. Scratching head. WWII was in the 40's champ

[@CrownroyalBlack-c1p]

Read 👇👇👇👇👇👇

[@gandydancer9710]

Does anyone think the English guy is funny? Anybody?

[@moneymoneyman32]

Being Jew isn't a nationality it's a, religion

[@mattkarres3321]

It's an Ethnicity. You can be an Agnostic or Atheist and still be a Jew. It's an Ancient Tribe, and membership passes through the Mother's Bloodline.

[@spenser6353]

@@mattkarres3321if it’s an ethnicity why are are people allowed to convert to Judaism? You can’t convert into any other ethnicity