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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 the local garment industry, long dominated by Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro and Louis "Lepke" Buchalter since the 1927 death of Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen, the two began to move against them in the summer of 1931. As the two sides battled for the garment industry in Brooklyn, Irving and Meyer Shapiro were killed by Joseph and Louis Amberg; Irving was gunned down near his apartment on July 11, and Meyer was found shot to death in the basement of a tenement building on Manhattan's Lower East Side on September 17, 1931. Three years later, on orders from Buchalter, Willie Shapiro was finally killed by Murder, Inc. members Martin "Bugsy" Goldstein and Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, supposedly being buried alive in a sandpit in the marshland of Canarsie by Reles, the Amberg brothers, and Frank Abbandando and Harry Maione on the night of July 20, 1934.
Reles would implicate Buchalter in the murders during talks with District Attorney William O'Dwyer after agreeing to become a government informant in 1941. His later testimony would result in the conviction of Buchalter and the rest of Murder, Inc., who were all eventually sentenced to death.
(1908–1931), Irving (1904–1931) and William Shapiro (1911–1934), collectively known as the ShapiroBrothers were the leaders of a group of Jewish-American...
to work for the Shapirobrothers, who ran the Brooklyn rackets. Soon Reles and Goldstein were committing petty crimes for the brothers. On one such occasion...
Along with his brothers Joseph and Hyman Amberg, they competed against Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and the ShapiroBrothers for control...
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eliminate their gangster rivals, the ShapiroBrothers (Meyer, Irving, and William). Previously that year, the Shapiros had unsuccessfully tried to murder...
National Record Mart opened a new chain, Oasis Records & Tapes. The Shapirobrothers expanded National Record Mart to 76 stores before retiring and selling...
father and two of his brothers did odd jobs for a living, resulting in earnings of $9.00 a week. His oldest brother, Richard Shapiro, worked as an artist...
Abbandando helped Buchalter and gang member Abe Reles eliminate the ShapiroBrothers, a rival outfit from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who controlled...
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Hitman and member of Murder, Inc. Participated in the murders of the ShapiroBrothers and George Rudnick. Hyman "Pittsburgh Hymie" Martin No image available...
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Buchalter posed a threat, Orgen allied himself with brothers Eddie and Jack "Legs" Diamond. Shapiro and Buchalter soon made their move. On October 15,...
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Unit. Murder, Inc. gunman George Defeo is killed in New York by the ShapiroBrothers. Benjamin Bennett, a New York mobster brought to Chicago by George...
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