Samuel Levine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Samuel "Red" Levine (b. 1903) was an American mobster, one of the more colorful characters of New York's underworld. Surprisingly little is known about Sam Levine, however what is known is that Levine (or Joseph Brown) was an Orthodox Jewish, syndicate hitman who refused to kill on the Sabbath. Levine was a member of the notorious Mafia gang, Murder, Inc., and is credited with being the trigger man, with Dutch Schultz lieutenant Bo Weinberg, in the 1931 murders of Joe "The Boss" Masseria and, along with Joe Adonis, Albert Anastasia and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, of Salvatore Maranzano.

He was portrayed by Paul Bruce in the original The Untouchables television series.

[edit] Further reading

• Lacey, Robert. Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. London: Century, 1991.
• Messick, Hank. Lansky. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1973.

[edit] References

• Rockaway, Robert A. (2000) in But He Was Good To His Mother: The Lives of Jewish Gangsters. Gefen Publishing House, Ltd. pp. 154 ISBN 965-229-249-4
• Cohen, Rich (1999) Tough Jews : Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams Vintage Press. ISBN 0-375-70547-3

[edit] External links

• Kill the Dutchman!: The Story of Dutch Schultz by Paul Sann
  • Chapter XII, Levine's involvement in the murder of Salvatore Maranzano
  • Chapter XXII, brief mention of rivalry with hitman Charles "The Bug" Workman
• They sleep with the gefilte fishes: Pat Hamou’s portrait show Six for Five recalls a forgotten era of hardboiled Hebrews by Rupert Bottenburg
• Mugshot of Sam Levine