and became a bootlegger during American Prohibition. Siegel was one of the founders and leaders of Murder, Inc.
Described as handsome and charismatic, he became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters. Siegel was influential within the Jewish Mob, along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, and he also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate. Benjamin ' Bugsy' Siegel (Febru– June 20, 1947) sometimes known as Ben Siegel, was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip.
