Joseph Amberg (1892 – September 30, 1935) was a
New York mobster who, with his brothers
Hyman Surname
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and
Louis "Pretty" Amberg, was involved in labor racketeering and other criminal activities. During the 1920s and 1930s the brothers competed with rivals such as
Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro,
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter,
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and the
Shapiro Brothers
Meyer (1908–1931), Irving (1904–1931) and William Shapiro (1911–1934), collectively known as the Shapiro Brothers were the leaders of a group of Jewish-American mobsters from New York City and based in Williamsburg. Well established in ...
. On September 30, 1935, Amberg was murdered alongside associate
Morris Kessler. The pair were ambushed in a
Brownsville, Brooklyn
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auto repair garage and, after being ordered to line up against the wall, were gunned down by members of
Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc. (Murder, Incorporated) was an organized crime group, active from 1929 to 1941, that acted as the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicatea closely connected criminal organization that included the Italian-American Mafia, the ...
["The Trail of the Dead" featuring Capt. John J. McGowan, Homicide Bureau, Brooklyn. ''American Detective'', Feb. 1936, p.10.]
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1892 births
1935 deaths
Criminals from Brooklyn
Date of birth unknown
Deaths by firearm in Brooklyn
Male murder victims
Murdered Jewish American gangsters
People murdered by Murder, Inc.
People murdered in New York City
1935 murders in the United States
20th-century American Jews