Louis Amberg

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Louis "Pretty" Amberg (1897-October 23, 1935) was a New York mobster and labor racketeer who led a criminal organization with his brothers Joseph and Hyman Amberg competing against Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and the Shapiro Brothers for control of Brooklyn's racketeering activities during the 1920s and early 30s. He was the sole surving brother following the suicide of his brother Hyman during a failed jail break in 1926 and the gangland murder of Joseph only a month before his own when his body was found in a burning car after being hacked with an ax and shot by a shotgun blast on October 23, 1935. Thought to have been killed by members of Murder Inc., the same organization who had killed his brother, he was killed the same day as Dutch Schultz.

Dona Drake, then named Rito Rio, was questioned by the FBI about his killing, she denied knowing his really identity. She was identified as his "girl friend"