Because he had the same surname as Esta Krakower, the wife of fellow Murder, Inc. member Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel,[1] Whitey was sometimes misidentified as her brother and Bugsy's brother-in-law when, in fact, he was not related to either of them.
[2] Together with Siegel and Frankie Carbo, Whitey was suspected of the 1939 gangland slaying of Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg.
In the months around his death, Benjamin Tannenbaum, Sidney "Shimmy" Salles, Anthony "Tony Romero" Romanello, and possibly James "Dizzy" Ferraco, were also murdered.
After this spate of killings, members of Murder, Inc. began surrendering to authorities.
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