Samuel Levine

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Samuel "Red" Levine (* 1903 Toledo , Ohio ; † unknown) was a contract killer of the notorious Murder, Inc. and is now part of the Kosher Nostra . The nickname "Red" refers to his red hair.

Life

Although Samuel "Red" Levine was known as the "motley dog" in the New York City underworld , little is known about him. Levine grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan . At the age of 8 he was already a helper on a truck that delivered ice cream bars . At the age of 15, he is said to have succeeded in joining the US Navy , as he had faked his age - as he did when he was at school. On board, however, there were permanent arguments on board - due to his red hair and his Jewish origin - whereupon Levine dismissed in Panama and returned to New York City.

He is said to have been a cousin of Meyer Lansky ; when he made friends with Lucky Luciano in 1916 , Levine is said to have become a member of the Five Points Gang . Levine later liked to use Joseph Brown as an alias and worked as a hired contract killer for Murder, Inc. but, as an Orthodox Jew , refused to kill on the Sabbath .

It has been linked to the murder of Bo Weinberg , Joe Masseria ; also with Joe Adonis , Albert Anastasia and Bugsy Siegel in the murder of Salvatore Maranzano .

Levine was in Murder, Inc. in rivalry with Charles "The Bug" Workman ; In particular, he was irritated that the latter received more murder orders than himself. At least this is what the Pentito Abe Reles later said about Levine. With the break-up of Murder, Inc., the trail of Levine is lost.

A March 6, 2001 article in The Village Voice newspaper links him to the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union (NMDU), which is believed to have been ruled by Kosher Nostras in the 1970s.

Later Levine is said to have spent time in Little Italy (New York City) and was seen there in the Knotty Pine Social Club , which was used as a meeting place for mobsters of the Genovese family - around their Capo Peter DeFeo . He is also said to have stayed at the Raven Knights Social Club (later known as Rabenite ).

Movie and movie quotes

Paul Bruce played him in the 1959 original series The Untouchables .

literature

  • Robert A. Rockaway: But He Was Good To His Mother: The Lives of Jewish Gangsters . Gefen Publishing House, 2000, ISBN 965-229-249-4 .
  • Rich Cohen: Tough Jews. Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams. Vintage Press, 1999, ISBN 0-375-70547-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Fried: The rise and fall of the Jewish gangster in America . Columbia University Press, 1980, ISBN 0-231-09683-6 , pp. 125 .
  2. Robert A. Rockaway: But He Was Good To His Mother. The Lives of Jewish Gangsters . Gefen Publishing House, 2000, ISBN 965-229-249-4 , pp. 23 .
  3. Tom Robbins: The Newspaper Racket. Tough Guys and Wiseguys in the Truck Drivers Union. In: The Village Voice. March 6, 2001, accessed October 12, 2014 .