Murder, Inc. (Murder, Incorporated) was an organized crime group active from 1929 to 1941 that acted as the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate – a closely connected criminal organization that included Italian-American Mafia, the Jewish Mob, and other criminal organizations in New York City and elsewhere. [1]

3 days ago · Before launching Murder Inc. in New York City in 1998, Gotti worked as an A&R at Def Jam, where he helped bring DMX, Jay-Z and Ja Rule to the label. Under the moniker DJ Irv, ...

1 day ago · Def Jam Recordings, which was the parent company of Murder Inc., announced Gotti’s death in a statement late Wednesday night. It did not give a cause of death. Gotti, whose real name is Irving Lorenzo, founded Murder Inc. with his brother in the late 1990s, with the label gaining worldwide prominence through platinum-selling artists Ashanti ...

Murder, Inc.: Directed by Burt Balaban, Stuart Rosenberg. With Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan, Peter Falk. The rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.

2 days ago · Irv Gotti, a music producer and founder of an influential rap label, has died, Def Jam Recordings said. He was 54. Gotti was best known as the head of Murder Inc. Records, an imprint of Def Jam ...

Jul 7, 2024 · Throughout the 1930s, the organized crime syndicate Murder Inc. allegedly killed hundreds of people under Lepke Buchalter and Albert Anastasia. Murder Inc. was one of the deadliest gangs in American history.

Murder, Inc.,, in popular usage, an arm of the American national crime syndicate, founded in the 1930s to threaten, maim, or murder designated victims for a price; the organization lacked an official name.

Abe Reles and his accomplice Bug Workman, two cold-blooded killers from Brooklyn's Brownsville district, go to the Garment District to meet with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, leader of the organized crime mob Murder, Inc., who offers them jobs as hit men.

Established by Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Murder Inc. is believed to have been responsible for up to 1,000 killings between 1929 and 1941. In essence, they were “the muscle” behind the Mafia. The group was comprised mostly of Jewish and Italian-American gangsters in New York City.

Sep 13, 2021 · Murder Inc.’s inception, activities and inner workings shocked 1930s society and made newspaper sales soar with sensational headlines and salacious details of underworld death-dealing and deceit.