Bugs and Meyer Mob

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The Bugs and Meyer Mob was a criminal gang of Jewish mobsters in the Lower East Side of New York City , which is now part of the Kosher Nostra .

history

The gang became generally conspicuous from 1921 onwards, but the fundamentals went back to the childhood of befriended leaders Meyer Lansky , Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz . The purpose of the gang was now to make a profit by smuggling alcohol in violation of alcohol prohibition , the ban on alcohol in the USA.

Lansky acted as the thinker and organizer of the gang, and Siegel in particular provided the muscles needed. Apparently, the gang was also a basin for members of the former Eastman Gang , because the gang's influence soon reached from New York to New Jersey and beyond. In New York it was Kosher Nostras who controlled 70% of the alcohol smuggling, while the Italians, ultimately organized in the Five Families of the Mafia , only managed 25%; the rest were shared by Irish and other groups.

In addition to the alcohol smuggling and distribution during the alcohol prohibition 1919-1932, the gang developed activities in other criminal business areas. Lansky was also a childhood friend of Lucky Luciano and both developed a close collaboration. As a Broadway mob, they supplied Manhattan with high quality whiskey . The cooperation was continued and led to Meyer Lansky becoming a member of the "Commission" of the National Crime Syndicate after the end of Prohibition .

Again and again it was the resources of the bug and Meyer Mob who helped Lucky Luciano with the enforcement within the La Cosa Nostra . The high point here was the joint formation of Murder, Inc. , which acted as a de facto service provider for murder assignments.

In contrast to most of the “families” of the La Cosa Nostra , Meyer Lansky did not operate territorially, but nationally and, as he had learned from Arnold Rothstein , relied on cooperation and the participation of other mobsters . Therefore, there was no further history of the Bugs and Meyer Mob . The armed forces had practically been transferred to Murder Inc , and more business was invested in gambling. So Bugsy Siegel went to Las Vegas, since gambling was legal there, in order to set up casinos there; especially the flamingo .

Members

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Dickie: Cosa Nostra: The History of the Mafia . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2006, p. 265, ISBN 978-3-596-17106-4 .

literature

  • Paul MacCabee: John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936 . Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul 1995, ISBN 0-87351-316-9 .
  • Alton Pryor: Outlaws and Gunslingers . Stagecoach Publishing, Roseville, California 2001, ISBN 0-9660053-6-8 .

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