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- Louis "Louie the Lump" Pioggi (April 24, 1889 – May 15, 1969) was an American criminal and member of the Five Points Gang, known most prominently for the murder of Eastman Gang leader Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach and Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis. He appears in newspaper accounts and public records as Louis Poggi.
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Louis "Louie the Lump" Pioggi (April 24, 1889 – May 15, 1969) was an American criminal and member of the Five Points Gang, known most prominently for the murder of Eastman Gang leader Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach and Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis.
Dec 19, 2022 · Louis Pioggi, affectionately called Louie the Lump, was a diminutive and dapper Italian member of the Five Point Gang, who rose to fame one starry night in Coney Island, when he took the life of Kind Twist, the former Monk Eastman’s boss.
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Louis "the Lump" Pioggi (24 April 1889-15 May 1969) was a Five Points Gang member and the murderer of Max Zwerbach and Vach Lewis in 1908.
Louis Pioggi was born on 24 April 1889, and he worked as a hospital clerk in Coney Island, New York City. Pioggi later joined the Italian Five Points Gang under Paul Kelly, and he grew angry at Max Zwerbach due to a romantic rivalry. On 14 May 1908, Pioggi and a few Five Points Gang hitmen killed Zwerbach and Vach Lewis as they left a local restaur...
His rivalry with the Five Points gang ultimately cost him his life in May 1908 when he and one of his men were shot to death at Coney Island by “Louis the Lump” Pioggi.
He was a known associate of Louis Pioggi, aka Louie the Lump, who had murdered Zelig's mentor, Kid Twist Zwerbach, four years earlier. Zelig had been released on $1000 bail after his arrest for "shooting up the saloon" of Pioggi's brother Jake. [2]
Jan 27, 2023 · Who was Louis Pioggi? Louis "Louie the Lump" Pioggi was a New York criminal and member of the Five Points Gang, known most prominently for the murder of Eastman Gang leader Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach and Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis. He appears in newspaper accounts and public records as Louis Poggi.
Louis Pioggi New York City Gang Leader — Reynolds, Robert Grey, Jr., — Louis Pioggi was a gangster who worked in association with Paul Kelly, a notorious Five Points underworld figure. This was an era that produced Monk Eastman, Kid Twist, Sam Tietch, the Sirocco gang and many more notorious hoodlums.
