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Criminals

Mickey Cohen

West Coast Gangster

Los Angeles gangster who partnered with Bugsy Siegel and palled around with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Richard Nixon

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Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein

Co-Founder Murder, Inc.

Gangster co-founder of Murder, Inc. and purported basis for Edward G. Robinson's movie persona.

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Jim Levy

Gunslinger

Jim Levy was a gunslinger who travelled throughout the Old West and was involved in one of the most cinematic frontier shootouts ever.

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Abe "Kid Twist" Reles

Gangster

As a leader of Brooklyn's Murder, Inc., Abe Reles was responsible for countless murders in the 1930s.

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Dutch Schultz

Gangster

Dutch Schultz was one the most brutal gangsters to have emerged from NYC during the prohibition era and was eventually assassinated by his own colleagues.

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Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel

Gangster

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a gangster who was both movie-star handsome and a ruthless murderer, with his greatest contribution being his vision of what Las Vegas could, and eventually would, become.

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Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss

Assassin/Gangster

Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss was a Murder, Inc. gangster and assassin who dressed as well as he killed.

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The Purple Gang

Organized Crime Group

The Purple Gang was to Detroit what Al Capone and his gang were to Chicago. From the late 1920s until their demise in the the early 1930s their members were the leaders of the city's underworld.

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