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Louis "lepke" Buchalter

Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (6 February 1897 - 4 March 1944) was a major Jewish American mobster of the 1930s. ...
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Item added by Wiseguy. Added on 05/26/2008
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DrEntropy
05/26/2008

Louis "lepke" Buchalter 5

Likely the only hitman ever to be featured in a poem by a major poet:

"Flabby, bald, lobotomized,
he drifted in a sheepish calm,
where no agonizing reappraisal
jarred his concentration on the electric chair
hanging like an oasis in his air
of lost connections...."

-Robert Lowell

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irishgit
05/26/2008

Louis "lepke" Buchalter 4

A vicious bastard, but that's hardly unlikely on a list like this. 

Not exactly a poster boy as a success story, being the only one who got convicted and executed for his work.

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