This U.S. crime figure was born Maier Suchowljansky in 1902
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Meyer Lansky - Organized Crime - Biography.com  Jun 22, 2015 ... Meyer Lansky was an organized-crime figure considered for decades to be ... in the development of a national crime syndicate in the United States. ... Maier Suchowljansky was born in 1902 in Grodno, a Polish city that was...
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Meyer Lansky is Dead at 81; Financial Wizard of Organized Crime.  Jan 16, 1983 ... Maier Suchowljansky, the Russian-born immigrant better known as Meyer ... said to have been a key figure in the 1934 creation of a national crime syndicate, ... Mr. Lansky was born in 1902 to Yetta and Max Suchowljansky in...
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Meyer Lansky - Wikipedia  Meyer Lansky known as the "Mob's Accountant", was a major organized crime figure who, ... Lansky was born Meier Suchowlaski in Grodno, in the Russian Empire ... He was born in the former lands of Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which ..... In the 2015 British crime film Legend, Meyer Lansky is mentioned although...
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On This Day in 1902 Meyer Lansky was Born - National Crime ...  Born Maier Suchowljansky on July 4th 1902 in the city of Grodno, Poland. His family immigrated to the United States in 1911, and, after his parents allegedly ... Luciano and Lansky amongst other notable figures created a National crime...
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Meyer Lansky | American gangster | Britannica.com  One of the most powerful and richest of U.S. crime syndicate chiefs and bankers, who ... Meyer Lansky, original name Maier Suchowljansky (born July 4, 1902,...
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8 Things You Should Know About Al Capone - History Lists  May 5, 2015 ... Learn about one of America's most notorious gangsters, from the ... During America's Prohibition era, Al Capone headed a Chicago-based crime empire that raked in ... come to Chicago by Johnny Torrio, a former Brooklyn mobster then ... In January 1925, Torrio was gunned down outside his Illinois home.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories - The New ...  Feb 26, 2015 ... Negotiations between investigators and the supposed art-nappers .... George A. Reissfelder, seen here in 1982, whose relatives say had one of...
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Whose Side Was She On? 'American Heiress' Revisits Patty Hearst's ...  Aug 3, 2016 ... In 1974, when she was a 19-year-old college student in Berkeley, Patty ... The jury found her guilty of bank robbery and using a firearm in a felony. ... Donald DeFreeze was like a junior varsity George Jackson, a less ... TOOBIN: Well, one of the themes of the book is that the SLA was ..... Oh, baby, here I am.
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Al Capone - Wikipedia  Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old. Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian ... was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.
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The Most Dangerous Mobster in the World | Provocateurs | OZY  Dec 24, 2015 ... That's what the FBI calls the 69-year-old Moscow-resident Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich. ... Because when the words most and dangerous appear in the same ... Fugitive member of the Russian secret service Alexander Litvinenko ... From fraud to fraud, cash grab to muscle to murder, Mogilevich has cut a...
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127 'mobsters' arrested in biggest ever blitz on New York's crime ...  Jan 20, 2011 ... Alphonse is believed to have helped run a $30million-a-year illegal betting ... Known as 'Teddy' .... originally formed in 1928 by Joseph 'The Olive Oil King' Profaci. ... in America started in 1957 when Albert Anastasia was assassinated while ... The family became the top New York crime family but defections...
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8 Things You Should Know About Al Capone - History Lists  May 5, 2015 ... Check out eight surprising facts about the notorious mob boss. ... After arriving in Chicago, Capone worked for Torrio, who was part of a criminal network headed by a man named Big Jim Colosimo. .... In January 1939, he was released from Alcatraz and transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution at...
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JEWISH CRIME - Holy War  Benjamin (Dopey) Fein "was the first gangster to make labor racketeering a full-time ... The murder of a well-known Jewish gambler, Herman Rosenthal, was ... a representative of the Lepke Buchalter Gang, also known as Murder Inc. Jews were ..... horse racing news monopoly that he arranged with the criminal underworld.
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A Pal to Stars, Mobsters and Other Crumb Bums - The New York Times  Sep 17, 2007 ... When Shor died in 1977, Ms. Jacobson was all of 6 years old. ... that Mr. Shor, the fabled New York saloonkeeper, was her grandfather. ... role of restaurateur into a celebrity archetype, became a symbol of the city's ... The son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants, Bernard Shor was born in Philadelphia in 1903.
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Leon Czolgosz - Wikipedia  Leon Frank Czolgosz was an American anarchist and former steel worker responsible for assassinating William McKinley, President of the United States, in 1901. Czolgosz was executed later that year. .... On September 6, Czolgosz went to the exposition armed with a concealed .32 caliber Iver Johnson "Safety Automatic"...
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Baby Face Nelson - Wikipedia  Lester Joseph Gillis (December 6, 1908  November 27, 1934), known by the alias George Nelson, better known as Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber in the 1930s. ... Lester Joseph Gillis was born December 6, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois. On July 4, 1916, at the age of twelve, Nelson was arrested after...
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - Wikipedia  Criminal charge, Conspiracy to commit espionage. Criminal penalty, Capital punishment. Criminal status, Executed. Children, Michael Meeropol, Robert Meeropol. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted, and executed for ... Julius became a leader in the Young Communist League USA while at City...
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jeopardy/2149_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  NOTORIOUS | New England criminal seen here in 1973 with some of the jewelry, including chokers, he made in prison: | Albert DeSalvo ("The Boston Strangler").
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Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis - 1930's Bank Robber - Findadeath  From Wiki lvin "Creepy" Karpis (#325- AZ) Born Alvin Karpawicz on ... He was 28 years old. ... His time on The Rock was spent mostly in the prison bakery  when he ... First is his Conduct Record While at Alcatraz .... Then Hoover took a hold of Carpis and told all of the flashing cameras that he caught him.
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Semion Mogilevich - Wikipedia  Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich is a Ukrainian-born, alleged Russian organized crime boss, believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world. ... He has been accused by the FBI of "weapons trafficking, contract murders,...
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Meyer Lansky - Organized Crime - Biography.com  Jun 22, 2015 ... Originally: Maier Suchowljansky; Nickname: Mob's Accountant ... For decades he was considered one of the most powerful men in the country and ... Charles Lucky Luciano was a fellow bootlegger as well, and Siegel would ... Lansky was deemed to be the financial mastermind behind this system, with his...