death_place death_date nationality name known_for article_title birth_name death_cause
manhattan , new york , united states 16 august 1913 american billy lustig new of philip `` pinchy '' paul during the first labor york slugger war . gang leader and labor racketeer ; ally billy lustig
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billy lustig

william `` billy '' lustig -lrb- died august 16 , 1913 -rrb- was an american gang leader and labor racketeer .
he was one of several independent gang leaders operating in manhattan 's lower east side and , along with abe `` little rhodey '' roch and philip `` pinchy '' paul , led a small coalition of gangs to break the monopoly held by joseph `` joe the greaser '' rosenzweig and benjamin `` dopey benny '' fein during the first `` labor slugger war '' .
lustig was also employed as a clerk and whose brother was a detective attached to the office of district attorney charles s. whitman .
