FBI Vault: Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, Part 04 (Final)

Final part of the FBI's Buchalter file, Sub A Section 13: mostly newspaper clippings from August 1939 that the Bureau collected on the New York racketeering grand jury, the combined reward and the search, with later clippings on Shapiro.

Date: 1939
Kind: case-file
Source: FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA; the Bureau's compilation is a work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The newspaper clippings inside it are third-party publications whose rights are not established, and none is reproduced or quoted here.

The Vault titles this part “Louis (Lepke) Buchalter Part 04 (Final).” It has 50 scanned pages, read through the viewer’s OCR. The cover sheet for Bufile 60-1501, Sub A Section 13, is at page 41.

Almost every page is a newspaper clipping that the Bureau collected in August 1939, among them items from The Atlanta Journal of August 8, 1939 and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. As far as the OCR can be read, they report the federal grand jury opened in New York to investigate racketeering and the combined city and federal reward for Buchalter; later clippings concern Shapiro.

This page records that the Bureau kept these clippings. It does not take any statement from them, and the OCR of the clippings is very noisy.

itemFBI Vault: Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, Part 03Third part of the FBI's Buchalter file: the Bureau's narrative "The Furdress Case" ending with his surrender on August 24, 1939, Los Angeles report pages from 1939, a 1956 memorandum, a 1966 Portland memorandum, and pasted newspaper clippings. Page 16 is stored here.

item"The Furdress Case": the FBI's narrative of the Shapiro and Buchalter surrenders (1939)An undated Bureau narrative, file 60-1501-4266, in Part 03 of the Buchalter file: Shapiro's surrender on April 14, 1938, the 1939 negotiations through Walter Winchell, and Buchalter's surrender to the Director at 10:17 on August 24, 1939. The first page is stored here.