$300 Million a year. That's what I mean Turnbull. That money was funneled up to the Mafia and then split up further. After Lepke was off the scene, that is exactly how the Mafia managed that cash cow, as a criminal commonwealth, not a monopoly.

Obviously the unions and industry heads saw Lepke as representing something larger. He was only the representative.

Back to Pittsburgh Strauss:

Since more guys than were actually caught were probably core members of Murder Inc., the inflated number of hits attributed to Strauss might have actually been done by a wider group of individuals who were never caught. That's if the number is actually inflated. It might not be.