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Alex Birns (February 21, 1907 – March 29, 1975), best known as Shondor Birns, was a Jewish-American organized crime figure, racketeer and crime boss from Cleveland, Ohio, who was once labeled by the local newspapers as the city's "Public enemy No. 1".
Alex "Shondor" Birns: No image available: 1907–1975 A major gangland figure in Cleveland throughout the 20th century. At one time considered Public Enemy No. 1, he controlled the city's underworld until his murder by Danny Greene in 1975. [2] Herbert Blitzstein: No image available: 1934–1997
Impressed with his abilities, mobster Alex "Shondor" Birns hired him as an enforcer for his various "numbers" operators. The Cleveland Mafia family underboss , Frank "Little Frank" Brancato, used Greene and other Irish-American gangsters, during the 1960s, to act as muscle to enforce the Mafia's influence over the garbage-hauling contracts and ...
Shondor Birns, Hungarian Jewish immigrant extortionist and loan shark with close ties to the Cleveland crime family and the Five Families; Isadore Blumenfeld, Romanian Jewish immigrant, enforcer, and hitman for the "A.Z. Syndicate", a Minneapolis-based Jewish crime family also operating in South Florida, the Las Vegas Strip, Chicago, and Louisiana
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Alex "Shondor" Birns (1907–1975), assassinated; Charles "Charlie the Wop" Carrollo (1902–1979), natural causes; Frank Costello (1891–1973), natural causes; Antonio Cottone (1904–1956), assassinated; Salvatore Giuliano (1922–1950), killed by law enforcement. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (1905–1968), natural causes; Yoshio Kodama (1911 ...