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The Bugs and Meyer Mob was a Jewish-American street gang in the Lower East Side headed by New York mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, which would serve as the predecessors to Murder Inc.

Formed by Siegel and Lansky during their teenage years, the Bug and Meyer Mob was formed in 1921 shortly after the start of Prohibition. Originally supplying bootleggers with stolen truck and drivers, within several years, the gang was handling protection, hijacking and murder for hire contracts for New York, New Jersey and surrounding areas. Lansky and Siegel also involved in illegal gambling, acting as enforcers on behalf of Frank Costello in New York and Louisiana [1].

Both longtime associates of mobster Charles "Lucky" Luciano, the gang would frequently work with Joe Adonis's Broadway Mob throughout the 1920s and would eventually be incorporated into the National Crime Syndicate, following Prohibition's end in 1933.

Further reading

  • MacCabee, Paul. John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995. ISBN 0-87351-316-9
  • Pryor, Alton. Outlaws and Gunslingers. Roseville, California: Stagecoach Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9660053-6-8
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