- The Bugs and Meyer Mob
The Bugs (Bugsy) and Meyer Mob was a
Jewish-American street gang in New York'sLower East Side headed by mobstersBugsy Siegel andMeyer Lansky during their teenage years shortly after the start ofProhibition as a predecessor to Murder Inc.They supplied bootleggers with stolen trucks and drivers and handling protection, hijacking, murder, illegal gambling, also enforcers of
Frank Costello in both New York and Louisiana. [ [http://www.jabezcorner.com/Grand_Bahama/sep3.htm Shadow of Evil on an Island in the Sun] , SE Post Feb 25, 1967 vol 204 issue 4 p. 27 - 37]Longtime associates of mobster Charles "Lucky" Luciano, the gang would frequently work with
Joe Adonis 'sBroadway Mob throughout the 1920s and would eventually be incorporated into theNational Crime Syndicate after Prohibition's end in 1933.Further reading
*Pryor, Alton. "Outlaws and Gunslingers". Roseville, California: Stagecoach Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9660053-6-8
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