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Im not going to insult 50 cents music but I will insult his intelligence.
50 cent soldier: Is a trow-away hitman used by the mob. They were used for hits that might not go down well. These people had little chance of being traced back to the bosses and they were disposable.
If anyone is wondering about Muder Inc:
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Originally a society of mostly Jewish hitmen, Murder Inc. eventually became the American Crime Syndicate's rub-out wing. In the early 30's, as Lucky Luciano was building his empire, his associates Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel started Murder Inc. as a way to deal with "problems."
Imagine the sales pitch: "Is some assfuck in Cleveland hijacking your trucks on their way to Chicago? Want to take care of him, but don't know dick about the local toughs in Ohio? Call Murder Inc.! We'll off the bum before noon, and no one will know the guy who does it. Just $1999.99 a hit!
As far as business ventures go, Murder Inc. was an unqualified success. Eventually, Seigel and Lansky moved on to bigger and better things, but it continued to grow under the care of Albert Anastasia and Lepke Buchalter. Murder Inc. hitmen were treated very well, even by todays standards. They recieved insurance, health care, retirement packages, and a very respectable paycheck. In addition to their killing fees, hitmen would receive a yearly salary to simply sit around and wait for a call.
Murder Inc. elicited great loyalty from it's employees, thanks to it's excellent HR department. When George Young and Joseph Schaefer were arrested for a hit they had performed, Bugsy Seigel made it a point of honor to buy the men top flight lawyers and payed their salaries to their families as long as they were incarcerated.
A lot of terminology was created to help facilitate more surreptitious killings. Police routinely tapped the phones of top mobsters in the 30's, so euphemisms became commonplace. Terms such as "hit" and "contract" got new meanings under the umbrella of Murder Inc.'s business discussions.
Hundreds of gangsters were employed by Murder Inc. during its heyday. Some famous hitmen included Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, Seymour "Blue Jaw" Magoon, and the infamous Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss. Strauss is said to have killed around 500 people during his stint as a Murder Inc. employee.
Strauss was a consumate professional. He often told of a hit he performed in Florida. He tailed his target for days until the victim entered a movie theater. On the way in, Strauss found a fire axe on a wall in the lobby. He grabbed the axe, walked calmly into the theater, and embedded it into the man's skull. As the theater erupted into a screaming mass of terrified patrons, Strauss screamed and ran out with the crowd acting like just another frightened movie goer.
Many famous gangsters fell to Murder Inc. gunmen, including Dutch Schultz, George "Whitey" Rudnick, and even Murder Inc. founder, Bugsy Seigel. But Murder Inc. killers were not only assigned for outside hits. When Charles "The Bug" Workman left the Palace Chop House after killing Dutch Schultz and three of his men, he found his getaway car gone and himself on foot. The driver, known only as Piggy, had panicked and driven off ahead of schedule. After some discussion within Murder Inc.'s ranks, it was decided that Piggy had committed a grievous sin. Kid Twist Reles and a few other Murder Inc. men dragged Piggy to a remote woodland retreat, stabbed him to death with an ice pick, and set his body ablaze.
Eventually, Murder Inc. caught the attention of authorities. Harry Rudolph, a one time employee, found himself in jail and adrift from the famous Murder Inc. charity. He demanded to speak to the district attorney about the murder racket. In his statements to the D.A., he mentioned the name of Kid Twist Reles. Reles was also in custody at the time, and the D.A. immediately called him in for questioning. Murder Inc. immediately put a hit out on Reles, and the Kid Twist began to sing like a canary. For two years Reles spilled the beans on every aspect of Murder Inc. and the Syndicate. His testimony led the the eventual electrocution of Lepke Buchalter, the only board member of the Syndicate to ever be executed.
In exchange for his testimony, Reles was given a soft sentence for the many murders he was eventually convicted of. In court, he recounted numerous killings, both his own and those of others. One particularly gruesome description appears in court records: the murder of George "Whitey" Rudnick. In the words of Kid Twist, "pep has an ice pick. Happer has meat cleaver. It is the kind you chop with, you know, butcher cleaver. Abby grabs Rudnick by the feet and drags him over to the car. Pep and Happy grab it by the head. They put it in the car. Somebody says 'It don't fit.' Just as they push the body in it gives a little cough or something. With that, Pep starts with the ice pick and starts punching away at Whitey. Maione says 'Let me hit the bastard one for luck.' And he hits him with the cleaver some place on the head." The body had been discovered with 63 stab wounds and a half opened skull.
His testimony led to the execution of Frank "The Dasher" Abbandando, Harry "Happy" Maione, Mendy Weiss, Louis Capone, and Harry "Phil" Strauss. Reles was eventually bumped off in his hotel room on Coney Island in 1941, despite a hefty police detail guarding him. With a $100,000 price tag on his head, it's believed that one of his guards rubbed him out.
Thanks to Reles, by the mid 40's, Murder Inc. was history. The business model it provided for the Syndicate's murderous tasks lasts to this day.
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