# Joe Bernstein

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/joe-bernstein/

Listed among the Purple Gang's 'ring leaders' in a 1932 Bureau of Investigation letter; 1930 wire reports call him a 'reputed leader' of the gang, the alleged victim in an assault case and the owner of a seized armored car.

The family and role lines quote the 1932 Bureau letter. The 1930 newspaper descriptions ("reputed leader") are the wire services' and set no role here. No filed record gives a fuller name, a birth date or a death.

## Sources

- FBI Records: The Vault, Purple Gang Part 02 (letter of 25 March 1932): https://vault.fbi.gov/Purple%20Gang%20%28aka%20Sugar%20House%20Gang%29/Purple%20Gang%20%28aka%20Sugar%20House%20Gang%29%20Part%2002/view