Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime boss. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organization, A
Anastasia in the 1950s
Mugshot of Anastasia in 1936
Albert Anastasia (left) leaves Federal District Court with his attorney, Anthony Colendra. May 23, 1955.
Murder, Inc. was an organized crime group active from 1929 to 1941 that acted as the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate – a closely connected criminal organization that included the Itali
An FBI wanted poster for Jacob Shapiro and Louis Buchalter (1937)
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, standing in court during sentencing, December 2, 1941