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Siegel has described himself as a "Betting Commissioner" and "Invest- went Broker" with an income of $50,000 per year. He stood 5 feet 9 inches tell, was a dapper dresser and weighed 157 pounds. While a youth in "Hell's Kitchen" in New 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" Zwillman. 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 with Meyer Lansky, a boyhood friend, and they formed the "Bugs and Meyer" Geng 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 be hated. o In addition to hauling and guarding liquor for other people, gel & and Lansky also branched out into bootleg:ing interests of their om. started running in from England expensive White Horse liquor and they ‘also began muscling 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 Gangs Moe Sedway, who had been an important front man for Waxey Gordon's liquor business because of his 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. REQUHDED , Ss” é Ge: 2/E/F-FR By the time Prohibition was repeleu 3 bee and Lansky had reached the sumuit of their New York criminal careers and ates jams with i Md goo COPIES bes KUYED af ob at we hey ele 44 NOV 17.1964 we |