Whitey Krakow (died July 30, 1941) Born Walter Krakower he was a New York mobster who served as a hitman for
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 ...
during the 1930s. Because he had the same surname as Esta Krakower, the wife of fellow Murder, Inc. member
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Whitey was sometimes misidentified as her brother and Bugsy's brother-in-law when, in fact, he was not related to either of them.
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Together with Siegel and Frankie Carbo
Paul John "Frankie" Carbo (born Paolo Giovanni Carbo, ; August 10, 1904Bureau of Narcotics, Sam Giancana, The United States Treasury Department. ''Mafia: The Government’s Secret File on Organized Crime''. 2007(pg. 85)/ref> – November 9, 1976) w ...
, Whitey was suspected of the 1939 gangland slaying of Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg. Later implicated by fellow Murder, Inc. members Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Allie "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum, he was found shot to death on Manhattan's Delancey Street
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on July 30, 1941, one of the first members of Murder, Inc. to himself be murdered, although he was not the only one. In the months around his death, Benjamin Tannenbaum, Sidney "Shimmy" Salles, Anthony "Tony Romero" Romanello, and possibly James "Dizzy" Ferraco, were also murdered. After this spate of killings, members of Murder, Inc. began surrendering to authorities.
References
Further reading
*Cohen, Rich. ''Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
*Turkus, Burton B. and Sid Feder. ''Murder, Inc: The Story of "the Syndicate"''. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003.
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Year of birth missing
1941 deaths
1941 murders in the United States
Murdered Jewish American gangsters
Murder, Inc.
People murdered by Murder, Inc.
People murdered in New York City
Male murder victims
Deaths by firearm in Manhattan
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