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Louis Lepke Buchalter — Part 2
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Extraordinary
Grand
Jury
of
New
York
County
against
Jacob
Shapiro
and
Louis
Buchalter,
charging
them,
with
others,
in
eleven
counts
with
extortion
in
the
Baking
Industry
of
~Rew
York
City
during
the
years
1934
and
1935,
by
means
of
which,
it
is
alleged,
they
obtained
tribute
of
$1,000,090.
REWARDS
.
On
August
20,
1937,
the
New
Iork
City
Board
of
Estimate
Apportionment
offered
$5,000
reward
for
infor-
mation
leading
to
the
arrest
of
Louis
Buchalter.
On
November
8,
1937,
the
then
Attorney
General
of
the
United
States
offered
$2,500
for
inforaation
furnished
the
Federal
Bureau
of
Investigation
resulting
in
the
a-pre-
hension
of
Louis
Buchalter.
This
offer
of
reward
expired
on
November
l,
1938,
end
has
not
been
renewed
to
date.
However,
on
larch
31,
1939,
u bulletin
was
dispatched
to
all
Special
Agents
in
Charge
of
the
Bureau
field
offices,
point-
ing
out
that
because
of
circumstances
and
conditions
pre-
vailing,
thie
offer
of
reward
was
not
being
publicly
renewed,
but
for
their
confidential
information,
the
Bureau
would
re-
munerete
anyone
up
to
$5,000
for
information
furnished
exclusively
to
us
which
resulted
in
the
apprehension
of
Louis
Buchalter.
BUCHALTER
- PERSONAL
BACKGROUND
DATA
Our
investigation
has
disclosed
thdt
Louis
Buchaiter
has
operated
in
New
York
City
and
vicinity
and
possesses
a
criminal
record
dating
back
to
1916. Starting
as
a minor
hood-
lum,
Buchnlter
arose
in
prominence
in the
underworld
until
he
was
the
boesprecketeer
of
New
Iork
City,
controlled
his
own
-~ organizetion~of
strong-arm
men
and
gunmen,
which
was
believed
to
number
from
two
to
five
hundred,
and
collected
millions
of
dollars
from
the
legitimate
businessmen
of
the
city.
Buchalter
had
a long
list
of
acquaintances
and
a wide
range
of
connections
in
the
criminal
underworld,
and
was
spoken
of
as
the
New
York
contact
for
members
of
the
Barker-Karol:
gang,
the
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