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Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc. n. an organized network of gangsters in the United States founded in the 1930s by Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter to carry out assassinations and assaults for money; (more generally) any group of organized and violent criminals.
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1940 N.Y. World-Telegram 18 Mar. 4/3 As prominent as Reles and Goldstein were in gang circles, neither of them was the president of Murder, Inc.
1958 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 52 439 The Binh Xuyen..secured a monopoly on gambling, prostitution, and the opium traffic... Headed by a gang of ex-river pirates, it can only be described as ‘Murder, Inc.
1995 Mother Jones June 47/2 Today's main counterparts to the old Purple Gang or Murder Inc.—along with the Sicilians and their new Russian partners—are the highly aggressive Chinese triads and the Colombians.
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