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~ 4 Gass ob oe Yee! born in New York City on February 28, 1906. His §MO £742 Ot at Pea? a Siegel has described himself as a "Betting Commissioner" and "Invest- ment ‘Broker* with an income of $50,000 per year. He stood 5 feet 9 inches #n1 While a youth in "Hell's Kitchen" in “Few York, Siegel made kid-gang contacts which later were to prove extremely useful with Frank Costello, Meyer . Lansky, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Joe Adonis, Jacob Shapiro, louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Abraham "Longie"™ Zwiliman. CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES IN NEW YORK CITY During the time that Siegel was in his teens, bootleg racketeering became a major activity for the underworld. Siegel formed an alliance wi with Meyer Lansky, a boyhood friend, and they formed the "Bugs and Meyer" Gang to =“ convoy liquor between New York and Chicago. Because of the raging fits of temper” which Siegel was capable of displaying at the slightest provocation, he became <—~ known to his associates as "Bugs", a nick-name which he hated. c~ In addition to hauling and guarding liquor for other people, gel & and Lansky also branched out into bootleg;ing interests of their own. atarted running in from England expensive White Horse liquor and they ‘also began mguscling into the operations of the "Waxey" Gordon Gang which controlled liquor outlets in Metropolitan New York. Siegel is credited with promoting the in- filtration of the "Waxey" Gordon territory. which was principally achieved through a series of gangland killings. Following such murders the Bugs and Meyer Mob would take over territory as well as personnel relinquished by the Waxey Gordon Gang. Moe Sedway, who had been an important front man for Waxey Gordon's liquor business because of hia legitimate contacts in the hotel and entertainment fields, was taken over by Siegel with the dissolution of the Waxey Gordon Gang just as other assets of that Gang were absorbed. RECOKDED Ve ga. 2E/F-FRS By the time Prohibition was repelété: ¥iezel and Lansky had reached the sumuit of their New York criminal careers and allied jthenselves_w: with certain ~ 6 pe OPES bes KUYED | 44@ NOV 17.1964 a Seren ee oe CE ES ced la a alee eae, | a liane