Feder, Sid

Burton B. Turkus, the Assistant District Attorney in Kings Country (Brooklyn) sent Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and six other Murder Incorporated gangsters to the electric chair. After breaking up the Syndicate "Killing Machine," he went on to become one of the most successful labor negotiators in New York history during the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Co-author Sid Feder was a veteran war correspondent during World War II. For 17 years he covered crime and other national stories for the Associated Press and wrote dozens of articles for the Saturday Evening Post, True and Collier's magazine among others...