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Warlords, Druglords, insurgents, rebels, US allies, US enemies and yes, the Taliban. It’s also provided hundreds of millions of all dollars for all sorts of less than desirable entities. Men like Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss, otherwise known as Pep, who had a confirmed 30 hits and might have had as many as 100, became some of the most prolific killers the world of organized crime has ever seen.īased on the books "Tough Jews" by Rich Cohen and "Murder, Inc"įor decades, starting a few years even before the Taliban took power the first time around, Afghanistan has dominated the world’s opium and heroin market, in some years producing up to 90% of the global supply. Enter Murder Incorporated.Įmerging from the Happy Maione's Ocean Hill Hooligans and Abe "Kid Twist" Reles Brownsville Troop, this collection of Jewish and Italian hit men would bring new meaning to the term "contract killer," dropping upwards of a thousand bodies across the country in a 10 year span as they carried out the Syndicate's bidding. To make sure their judgments were respected, they needed an enforcement arm. Together with a few other kingpins, they formed the Syndicate: a collection of the most powerful organized crime figures across the country that operated like a corporation with a board of directors that voted on everything related to gangsters. In the 1920's, high level gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky had a plan to bring some semblance of order to the underworld. How did one of Europe's top mobsters get such a firm grip on the boxing world? And will Daniel Kinahan live out his fugitive days on an Afghan compound? We spoke to journalist and author Nicola Tallant, who's reported on the Kinahans for years, to find out more. Now he's on the run-but his fighters are still going strong. Soon after, UAE authorities froze his accounts. Last month the US Treasury slapped a $5m reward on Kinahan's head. Kinahan decamped to Dubai (where else), and MGM's promotions became MTK.but it continued as the latest in a long line of mob ties with boxing going back to the Luccheses in NYC. Kinahan fostered some of boxing's brightest talents, including world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury via his Marbella, Spain-based promotion firm and gym, MGM.īut in 2016 assassins came for Kinahan on his home turf, kicking off a gang war and sending his cartel into a tailspin. For years, Dublin-born Daniel Kinahan built on the work of his heroin-lord father Christy, aka the Dapper Don, to become one of the world's biggest cocaine kingpins.