Editing Bugsy Siegel (section)

==Murder, Incorporated==
By the late 1920s, Lansky and Siegel had ties to Luciano and [[Frank Costello]], future bosses of the [[Genovese crime family]]. Siegel, [[Albert Anastasia]], [[Vito Genovese]], and [[Joe Adonis]] allegedly were the four gunmen who shot New York mob boss [[Joe Masseria]] to death on Luciano's orders on April&nbsp;15, 1931, ending the [[Castellammarese War]].{{sfnp|Sifakis|2005|p=[https://archive.org/details/mafiaencyclopedi00sifa_0/page/304 304]}}<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Pollak |title=Coney Island's Big Hit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/nyregion/answer-to-a-question-about-a-mobsters-death-in-coney-island.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 29, 2012|access-date=October 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120050041/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/nyregion/answer-to-a-question-about-a-mobsters-death-in-coney-island.html|archive-date=November 20, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> On September 10 of that year, Luciano hired four gunmen from the Bugs and Meyer Mob (some sources identify Siegel as being one of the gunmen<ref>{{cite book|first=Selwyn|last=Raab|title=Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires|year=2006|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s8f3/page/84 84]|isbn=978-0312361815 |url=https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s8f3}}</ref>{{sfnp|Eisenberg|Dan|Landau|1979|pp=140–141}}) to murder [[Salvatore Maranzano]] in his New York office, establishing Luciano's rise to the top of the Mafia and marking the beginning of modern American organized crime.<ref>{{cite book |first=Tim |last=Newark |title=Lucky Luciano: The Real and the Fake Gangster |date=August 31, 2010 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/luckylucianoreal0000newa/page/62 62–66]|isbn=978-0-312-60182-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/luckylucianoreal0000newa}}</ref>

[[File:Mugshot Benjamin Siegel.jpg|alt=|thumb|Siegel's mugshot, April 1928|left]]
Following Maranzano's death, Luciano and Lansky formed the [[National Crime Syndicate]], an organization of crime families that brought power to the underworld.<ref name="Killer Ring">{{cite news|title=Killer Ring Broken; 21 Murders Solved|url=http://www.laborers.org/Murder.html|work=[[New York Daily News]]|date=March 19, 1940|access-date=February 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321193223/http://www.laborers.org/Murder.html|archive-date=March 21, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Raab|first=Selwyn|title=Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires|year=2006|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|location=New York |pages=32–34}}</ref> [[The Commission (mafia)|The Commission]] was established for dividing Mafia territories and preventing future [[Gang#Gang violence|gang wars]].<ref name="Killer Ring" /> With his associates, Siegel formed Murder, Inc. After he and Lansky moved on, control over Murder, Inc. was ceded to Buchalter and Anastasia,{{sfnp|Sifakis|2005|p=68}} although Siegel continued working as a hitman.{{sfnp|Sifakis|2005|p=417}} Siegel's only conviction was in [[Miami]]; on February 28, 1932, he was arrested for [[gambling]] and [[vagrancy (people)|vagrancy]], and, from a roll of bills, paid a $100 fine.<ref name=nytobit />

During this period, Siegel had a disagreement with the Fabrizzo brothers, associates of [[Waxey Gordon]]. Gordon had hired the Fabrizzo brothers from prison after Lansky and Siegel gave the [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] information about Gordon's [[tax evasion]]. It led to Gordon's imprisonment in 1933.<ref name="Bugsy Siegel Part 3" /> Siegel hunted down and killed the Fabrizzos after they made an assassination attempt on Lansky and him by penetrating Siegel's heavily fortified Waldorf Astoria suite with a bomb.<ref>{{cite web|first=Tony|last=Sokol|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/boardwalk-empire/188237/boardwalk-empire-season-5-the-real-bugsy-siegel|title=Boardwalk Empire Season 5: The Real Bugsy Siegel|work=[[Den of Geek]]|publisher=[[Dennis Publishing]]|location=London|date=October 24, 2014|access-date=May 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521105603/http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/boardwalk-empire/188237/boardwalk-empire-season-5-the-real-bugsy-siegel|archive-date=May 21, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> After the deaths of his two brothers, Tony Fabrizzo had begun to write a [[memoir]] and gave it to an attorney. One of the longest chapters was to be a section on the nationwide kill-for-hire squad led by Siegel. However, the mob discovered Fabrizzo's plans before he could carry them out.{{sfnp|Turkus|Feder|2003|p=264}} In 1932, after checking into a hospital to establish an [[alibi]] and later sneaking out, Siegel joined two accomplices in approaching Fabrizzo's house and, posing as detectives to lure him outside, gunned him down.{{sfnp|Turkus|Feder|2003|pp=264–265}}{{sfnp|Turkus|Feder|2003|p=264}} In 1935, Siegel assisted in Luciano's alliance with [[Dutch Schultz]] and killed rival [[loan shark]] brothers [[Louis Amberg|Louis "Pretty" Amberg]] and [[Joseph C. Amberg]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bugsy Siegels|url=http://www.nyctouristguide.com/bugsy-siegel-gangster-nyc.asp|work=NYC Tourist Guide|access-date=June 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216183027/http://nyctouristguide.com/bugsy-siegel-gangster-nyc.asp|archive-date=December 16, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfnp|Jennings|1992|p=35}}