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Original 10.5 x 16 wanted poster for Jacob Shapiro and Louis Buchalter, issued by the United States Department of Justice, November 8, 1937, offering a $5,000 reward for "information furnished to the Federal Bureau of Investigation resulting in the apprehension" of both men, or $2,500 per man. Signed in print by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the poster features mug shots of both men with physical descriptions, and outlines the charges as follows: "Jacob Shapiro was convicted in Federal Court at New York, New York, on November 8, 1936, of violating the Federal Antitrust Laws, and was sentenced to serve two years in a Federal penitentiary and to pay $10,000 fine. On appeal, this conviction was affirmed, and on June 14, 1937, upon his failure to surrender to the United States Marshal, as ordered, his bail in the amount of $10,000 was declared forfeit and a warrant issued for his arrest. An indictment was returned by the Federal Grand Jury at New York, New York, on November 6, 1933, charging Shapiro and Buchalter, and others, with violating the Federal Antitrust Laws. Both Shapiro and Buchalter failed to appear in federal Court for trial on July 6, 1937, and bail in the amount of $3,000 for each was forfeited and warrants issued for their arrests on July 7, 1937." In fine condition, with edgewear and intersecting folds.
Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter and Jacob Shapiro were among the most powerful labor racketeers of the 1930s and leading figures in the National Crime Syndicate, with Buchalter serving as the notorious head of Murder, Inc., the organization's contract-killing arm. This reward notice was issued during J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to expand the FBI's role in combating organized crime, at a time when Buchalter and Shapiro ranked among the Bureau's most wanted fugitives. Buchalter ultimately surrendered to Hoover on August 24, 1939, but was later convicted of murder and executed in Sing Sing's electric chair on March 4, 1944, the only major American mob boss ever executed for his crimes. Shapiro was convicted on related charges and, on May 5, 1944, was sentenced to 15 years to life for conspiracy and extortion.
