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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 ...
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 ...
In May 1998, Anthony P. Delmonti, an associate of the Cleveland family and the Rochester, New York, faction of the Bonanno crime family, became a confidential informant for the FBI's Cleveland office and provided the Bureau with information on a Mafia-controlled Rochester-to-Cleveland stolen car ring, a Los Angeles-to-Cleveland cocaine ring ...
Celtic Club lieutenant Kevin McTaggert informed the FBI that Hells Angels member Enis "Eagle" Crnic was contracted by Greene for a fee of $7,500 to kill Shondor Birns, a rival racketeer and Mafia ally who was assassinated via a car bomb containing C-4 explosive on March 29, 1975. [81]
Danny moves his unhappy wife and daughters back to Collinwood and Nardi gets him work as an enforcer for Jewish loan shark Shondor Birns. Nardi then brokers a deal with Mafia captain Jack Licavoli for Danny to force the city's garbage haulers to join a union Licavoli controls. Danny's crew terrorizes trash haulers into joining the union, but ...
Jewish-American organized crime initially emerged within the American Jewish community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In media and popular culture, it has variously been referred to as the Jewish Mob, the Jewish Mafia, the Kosher Mob, the Kosher Mafia, the Yiddish Connection, [1] and Kosher Nostra [2] [3] or Undzer Shtik (Yiddish: אונדזער שטיק).