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==Eliminating potential witnesses==
In the mid-1930s, New York District Attorney [[Thomas E. Dewey]] targeted Buchalter for prosecution. In response, Buchalter started eliminating all potential witnesses. [[Murder, Inc.]], rubbed out anyone that Buchalter even suspected of being an informant. <ref>{{cite book|last=Raab|first=Selwyn.|title=Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires|year=2006|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York, N.Y.|isbn=978-0-312-36181-5|pages=70}}</ref> [[Loan shark]] George "Whitey" Rudnick was one such victim; he was killed by Maione, Abbandando, and Strauss on May 11, 1937.
In 1940, Reles became an informant for the [[New York|State of New York]]. He then implicated Maione in the horrific slaying of Rudnick. According to Reles, the men supposedly killed Rudnick and started stuffing him back in their car. Suddenly, the "corpse" started coughing. To finish him off, Strauss stabbed Rudnick 63 times with an ice pick and Maione buried a meat cleaver in his skull.
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