The Bugs and Meyer Mob

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The Bugs and Meyer Mob (Bugsy and Meyer Mob) was a Jewish-American street gang in New York's Lower East Side headed by mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. It would serve as the predecessor to Murder Inc.

Formed by Siegel and Lansky during their teenage years, the Bugs and Meyer Mob began in 1921 shortly after the start of Prohibition. Originally supplying bootleggers with stolen trucks and drivers, within a few years the gang was handling protection, hijacking and murder for hire contracts for New York, New Jersey and the surrounding areas. Lansky and Siegel were also involved in illegal gambling, acting as enforcers on behalf of Frank Costello in both New York and Louisiana [1].

Longtime associates of mobster Charles "Lucky" Luciano, the gang would frequently work with Joe Adonis's Broadway Mob throughout the 1920s and would eventually be incorporated into the National Crime Syndicate after Prohibition's end in 1933.

[edit] Further reading

MacCabee, Paul. John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995. ISBN 0-87351-316-9
Pryor, Alton. Outlaws and Gunslingers. Roseville, California: Stagecoach Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9660053-6-8