For two years New York City police hunted halfheartedly for a big-eared little racketeer called Lepke (Jewish diminutive for Louis) Buchalter. But the U. S. public did not become Lepke-conscious until ...

Two years ago the State of New York stood ready to execute a hammered-down, jug-eared little blackmailer, labor racketeer and murderer called Lepke (Yiddish affectionate variant of Louis) Buchalter.

Irving Penn was a short, fat man who was in the sheet music publishing business and had the bad luck to resemble a short, fat man named Philip Orlovsky, who was in the rackets. On Tuesday the 25th of ...

Tony Curtis stars as 1930's gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, head of Murder Inc., the syndicate that splattered the headlines of the day with blood. From his rough-and-tumble East Side childhood and ...

Myron “Mike” Edward Lepke, 87, of Chaseburg passed away peacefully Saturday, March 6, 2021 at Gundersen Health System in LaCrosse, due to complications of Covid pneumonia. Myron was born September 1, ...

Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in ...