Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New YorkIn 1940 and 1941 a group of ruthless gangsters from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood became the focus of media frenzy when they dubbed "Murder Inc.," by New York World Telegram reporter Harry Feeney were tried for murder. It is estimated that collectively they killed hundreds of people during a reign of terror that lasted from 1931 to 1940. As the trial played out to a packed courtroom, shocked spectators gasped at the outrageous revelations made