Murder Incorporated – The Faces of Murder

June 28, 2023

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Title: Murder Incorporated – The Faces of Murder

Original Publication Date: 6/28/2023

Transcript URL: https://share.descript.com/view/x0pe5BivSoK

Description: In this episode of Organized Crime and Punishment, Mustache Chris and Steve will continue to delve into the history and background of Murder Incorporated. We look at how organized crime outfits in New York City became to dip their toes into organized labor unions and labor-management relations issues during the early 20th Century. This will lead to a series of conflicts referred to as the Labor Slugger Wars. We will also begin to introduce some of the key players involved in forming Murder Inc, including Abe Reles, Meyer Lanksy, Bugsy Seigel and more.

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Begin Transcript:

[00:00:00] Welcome to Organized Crime and Punishment, the best spot in town to hang out and talk about history and crime. With your hosts, Steve and Mustache, Chris.

Here we are again and we're gonna talk some more about Murder Inc. Before we get in too far, let's recapitulate a little bit about what we've talked about previously with Murder Inc. It all starts off with this bugs in Meyer Gang, Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, and then we fold in some more characters.

Joe Adonis, all of this in this stew of these. Immigrant neighborhoods of Brownsville and the lower East [00:01:00] side of Manhattan and its conditions that really made America and what maybe made America great of the immigrants and working hard and working hard to make a better life, but it also created some of the conditions for the very worst crime that America has ever seen.

So as we're moving forward, keep all of that in mind as we learn new players and we learn about new people, who are new people, who are getting involved in new events, in this whole idea of Murder Inc. That it's all happening in this really fascinating. Petri Dish of American History. Now, Chris, get us started today with Leke Buck Halter and Jacob Shapiro.

How do they fit into this next part of the story of Murder Inc? Yeah. The way we kind of planned it out was like the next two episodes are just gonna introduce like, all the major players in Murder [00:02:00] Inc. Like I th the previous episode I pointed out, like when we came up with the idea, I didn't, you know, I thought going into it, You know, this would be kind of relatively easy to do, and then once you start doing the research, it's, it's really kind of complicated.

There's a lot of moving parts. So, uh, we've kind of broken it up. So I, I believe it's gonna be pretty easy to follow for anyone really. Like you won't have to have any background really in, on the subject matter to walk away from. And, yeah, I understand what Murder Inc is. It's a lot of people too, and it's, I know that I don't like getting bombarded with a lot of people and biographies, but it really is important for this story to see how all of these different characters fit together.

So definitely hang in there with us as we introduce new characters. Some characters will exit the stage, some will fly off of the stage, as you'll see. Let's start off with Leke and Jacob Shapiro and how [00:03:00] they fit into this whole. Criminal underworld that we're, we're slowly setting up here. And, uh, Jacob Shapiro were both, uh, Jewish immigrants, like, uh, from poor Jewish immigrant

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Meet Your Hosts

Steve Guerra is a historian and podcaster who hosts three different shows. He started with the History of the Papacy Podcast in 2013. In 2017, Steve began Beyond the Big Screen, a podcast that delves into the fascinating stories behind films through lively interviews. His newest show, Organized Crime and Punishment, takes a deep dive into the roots, evolution, and impact of organized crime across different cultures and countries.

Mustache Chris is the co-host of Organized Crime and Punishment. He is from the True North, born and bred in Toronto, Canada. Some say he bears a striking resemblance to Gambino Crime Family associate Chris Rosenberg, but we'll leave that up to you.