Whitey Krakow

Whitey Krakow

Whitey Krakow or Krakower (died July 30, 1941) was a New York mobster who, during the 1930s, served as a hitman for Murder, Inc. He was later suspected in the 1939 gangland slaying of Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg with Frankie Carbo and brother-in-law Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. He was implicated by fellow Murder Inc. members Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Allie "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum. He was shot to death on Manhattan's Delancey Street.

Further reading

*Cohen, Rich. "Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams". New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0-684-83115-5
*Turkus, Burton B. and Sid Feder. "Murder, Inc: The Story of "the Syndicate". New York: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 0-306-81288-6


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