Editing Albert Anastasia (section)

==Criminal Power==
Albert Anastasia soon worked with [[Meyer Lansky]], [[Louis Buchalter]] and [[Frank Costello]]. He became a hit man and enforcer for Luciano and his associates and soon earned his nickname "Lord High Executioner." After [[Salvatore Maranzano]] and [[Joe Masseria]] were killed, Lucky Luciano formed The Commission and appointed [[Vincent Mangano]] as boss of the Gambino crime family. Mangano made Anastasia underboss in 1931 and head of his Brooklyn rackets. He soon became Leader of [[Murder, Inc.]] and Abe Reles became an enforcer. 

[[Charles Luciano]] used Murder Inc for murder and to enforce his authority. Joe Santora worked in laundry and when he didn't pay his tribute to Anastasia, he shot and killed Santora on August 2, 1933 and was suspected of murder. The witness changed his story in court and denied Anastasia killed him because he was frightened of his reputation. Thomas Dewey, who closed down on organized crime and convicted Charles Luciano of prostitution,  tried to convict Louis Buchalter of Racketeering. Anastasia helped Buchalter hide in his Brooklyn neighborhood. Anastasia helped his friend and murdered around 14 key witnesses and 1 secretary to Dewey. 

Louis Buchalter was convicted of racketeering and drugs by J. Edgar Hoover and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Thomas Dewey convicted him of murder on November 30, 1941 and was sentenced to death by electric chair. Facing the death penalty, Reles became an informant and was scheduled to testify, but was found murdered on the roof of a hotel where he was staying.