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Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American mobster[2] who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip.[3] Siegel not only was influential within the Jewish mob, but along with his friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate. Described as handsome and charismatic, he became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters.[4]

Siegel was one of the founders and leaders of Murder, Inc.[5] and became a bootlegger during Prohibition. After the Twenty-first Amendment was passed repealing Prohibition in 1933, he turned to gambling. In 1936, he left New York and moved to California.[6] His time as a mobster during this period was mainly as a hitman and muscle, as he was noted for his prowess with guns and violence. In 1941, Siegel was tried for the murder of fellow mobster Harry Greenberg. He was acquitted in 1942.

Siegel traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he handled and financed some of the original casinos.[7] He assisted developer William R. Wilkerson's Flamingo Hotel after Wilkerson ran out of funds.[8] Siegel took over the project and managed the final stages of construction. The Flamingo opened on December 26, 1946 to poor reception and soon closed. It reopened in March 1947 with a finished hotel. Three months later, on June 20, 1947, Siegel was shot dead at the home of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill, in Beverly Hills, California.

The Purple Gang

The Purple Gang was Detroit’s most notorious organized crime gang in the 1920s and 1930s. Led chiefly by the Burnstein (often misspelled Bernstein) brothers Raymond, Joseph, Isadore and Abraham - the Purple Gang was made up of immigrants from Detroit’s lower east side. The area, known as “Little Jerusalem,” was bordered by Gratiot Avenue, Brush Street, Willis Avenue and Russell Street. Beginning as disruptive delinquents at Bishop School, and progressing to “students” of Detroit mobsters Charles Leiter and Henry Shorr, who ran the Oakland Sugar House, the group was first known as the Sugar House Boys or Sugar House Gang.

The origin of the name, Purple Gang (also known as “the Purples”), has many variations, among them: street vendors who were victims of the delinquents, referred to them as “tainted, off-color,” therefore purple, a “purple gang”; named for someone’s purple sweater at a meeting to change the name from Sugar House Boys; taken from the Purple Line Company, a taxi cab company who used gang members to win a trade war; others attribute it to the purple dye that was used to ruin clothes during the Cleaners & Dyers War.

The Gang, originally a loose confederation of independent criminals, began by hijacking alcohol smuggled by others across the Canadian border, chiefly the Detroit River, during prohibition. Al Capone, the notorious Chicago gangster, chose to use the Purple Gang to supply Old Log Cabin whiskey rather than battle them for Detroit territory. Allegedly, several Gang members were used as spotters in Chicago’s infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

In the 1920s, the Purple Gang was known for their instigation of the “Cleaners and Dyers War,” a dispute between the cleaning industry and its union. The Wholesale Cleaners and Dyers Association was formed by Abe Burnstein and the Detroit Federation of Labor. Membership was coerced by Purple Gang members, who often used violent means of persuasion. In 1928, 13 members of the Purple Gang were tried for extortion for their role in the war, but all were acquitted.

Around the time of the trial, the Purple Gang was in its heyday. It controlled all of Detroit’s underworld, including the gambling, liquor, and drug trade. The Purple Gang of the late 1920s was nearly invincible against law enforcement, since witnesses were too terrified to testify in murder and criminal trials.

Nonetheless, the Purple Gang began to dissolve in the early 1930s through inter-gang strife and warfare. In September 1931, the Purple Gang murdered three of its own members who were double crossing the Gang. The three men, Herman (Hymie) Paul, Isadore (Joe) Sutker, and Joe Lebowitz, were invited to a peace negotiation at the Collingwood Manor Apartment building in Detroit. When they arrived, they were shot. Sol Levine, the man who unwittingly transported the three men to their deaths, was later caught by Detroit Police and pressured into testifying against the Gang. As a result, three of the four men involved with the murders, including Ray Burnstein, were convicted of third-degree murder and sent to jail for life.

The “Collingwood Manor Massacre,” as the event came to be known, marked the downfall of the Purple Gang. By 1935, the alliance had splintered and the Purple Gang no longer reigned over Detroit’s underworld, with at least 18 members dead and others in prison.

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We lost a real legend today gents

The oldest living mobster,the last of a dying breed.

R.I.P Sonny Franzese

Colombo Underboss John 'Sonny' Franzese Dead at 103 Mobster John "Sonny" Franzese dies at 103.

With deep sadness. R.I.P uncle sonny. True friend and gentleman. Wise guy all the way to the end.

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