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The Only Mob Boss Fried in Old Sparky

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Louis “Lepke” Buchalter did not have the wit to avoid being the first and only mob boss to have been executed by the State of New York. If Lepke hadn’t been overheard by an eager-to-testify underling when ordering the murder of Joe Rosen, a former truck driver who had refused to join a Lepke-controlled union, he may have gone on ordering murders into his old age. As the boss of Murder Inc., Lepke used the murderous means at his disposal to get r…
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CrimeReads broke the news in on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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