Tobin tells Abe Reles that "we picked up Lepke and Mendy Weiss in Kansas City." In fact, after two years of hiding out, Lepke surrendered to J. Edgar Hoover in Manhattan using columnist Walter Winchell as an intermediary. Other mobsters, concerned that the hunt for Lepke was bringing too much heat on them, sent word that Hoover had agreed to a deal that would keep Lepke away from state prosecutors looking to charge him with murder. Lepke believed it, but in fact, there was no deal.
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