Joseph Stacher

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Joseph "Doc" Stacher alias Joseph Oystacher (* 1902 in Letytschiw , Russia , today Ukraine ; † February 28, 1977 in Munich ) was an American mobster who is now part of the Kosher Nostra .

He is said to have supported Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano in the collaboration between the Jewish Kosher Nostra and the Italian La Cosa Nostra , which resulted in Meyer Lansky getting a seat on the Commission , a supreme mafia body, of the National Crime Syndicate .

Life

In 1912 the family emigrated from the Ukraine to the USA and lived in Newark (New Jersey) . Stacher became known as a thief who stole his booty from handcarts etc. He shortened his family name from Oystacher to Stacher . He met the gangsters Meyer Lansky and Abner Zwillman . In the 1920s, he participated in the gambling activities of Zwillman.

In 1931, Stacher Lansky helped organize a meeting of “Kosher Nostras” in the Franconia Hotel , which today can be seen as the prelude to the formation of the National Crime Syndicate . This Mafia body was founded after the bloody Mafia War ( War of Castellammare ) and served to prevent new wars in the event of a conflict. When Lansky began his activities in the Caribbean and on the west coast of the United States , Stacher was the silent helper and partner in the background. In Las Vegas , he acted as a sort of supervisor at the Sands and Fremont casinos .

Jack Dragna , the local La Cosa Nostra boss in California , was not a fan of Meyer Lansky's mobster expansion to Las Vegas. He sent his "enforcer" (English: "enforcer") Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno to assert his rights. Moe Sedway and the senior Doc Stacher were physically attacked. Actually, the National Crime Syndicate had planned Las Vegas as an open city, which was not assigned to any clan or group as territory. When Meyer Lansky approached Tommy Lucchese about it, there was initially no solution. Meyer Lansky did not seek the conflict, but offered Jack Dragna a share in the flamingo , which the latter refused.

In 1964, Stacher was able to continue his activities even when other mobsters were already a. could be prosecuted for tax evasion ; however, his role had not gone unnoticed and the immigration authorities tried to deport him to Poland .

He was protected from deportation to Poland by a regulation that prohibited the deportation of people to states belonging to the communist Eastern Bloc . But he was allowed to settle in Israel , with Frank Sinatra allegedly helping him, and so Stacher emigrated there in 1965.

There he was visited by the journalists Dennis Eisenberg , Uri Dan and Eli Landau , who were planning a biography about Meyer Lansky .

On February 28, 1977, Joseph Stacher died under unexplained circumstances in a hotel in Munich . Heart failure was given as the cause of death. His body was brought back to Israel and buried there.

estate

Joseph Stacher's daughter, Joanne Ruth, is a graduate geologist and works as a jewelery designer in Crystal Bay , Nevada , near Lake Tahoe . Different birth information exists about them; on the one hand, she is said to have been born in Los Angeles in 1952 ; but also the year 1950 with the place of birth Rome is mentioned.

literature

  • David A. Chapin, Ben Weinstock: The Road from Letichev: The history and culture of a forgotten Jewish community in Eastern Europe. Volume 2, Universe, Lincoln 2000, pp. 475-477.
  • TJ English: Havana Nocturne. How the Mob Owned Cuba ... and Then Lost It to the Revolution . Harper, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-171274-6 .
  • Seymour M. Hersh: The Dark Side of Camelot . Little, Brown and Company, New York 1997, ISBN 0-316-35955-6 .
  • Robert Lacey: Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life . Century, London 1991, ISBN 0-7126-2426-0 .
  • Michael Collins Piper: Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy . Wolfe Press, Washington, DC 1993, ISBN 0-935036-47-4 .
  • Ed Reid, Ovid Demaris : The Green Felt Jungle . Pocket Books, Montreal 1964.
  • Carl Sifakis: The Encyclopedia of American Crime: Second Edition . Facts On File, New York 2001, ISBN 0-8160-6884-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AmericanMafia.com - Muscling In by John William Tuohy on www.americanmafia.com (English)
  2. ↑ Joseph - Doc - Stacher on www.lacndb.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Stacher, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oystacher, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mobster, partner of Meyer Lansky
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Letychiv , Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1977
Place of death Munich , Germany