Abraham Weinberg

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Abraham "Bo" Weinberg (* 1897 in the Russian Empire ; † probably September 9, 1935 in New York ) was an American mobster from the environment of Dutch Schultz and is therefore now part of the Kosher Nostra .

Life

Abraham Weinberg was born in Russia in 1897; his family then emigrated to New York . Dutch Schultz took Weinberg into his gang along with his brother George Weinberg during the alcohol prohibition . Weinberg rose there to one of the most important "enforcers" and contract killers and proved himself particularly in the so-called "Manhattan Bootleg Wars", which broke out when Schultz expanded his activities to Manhattan .

In the Castellammare War , Weinberg was linked to the murder of Salvatore Maranzano and it is said to have been the one who spread rumors of the mass execution of Mustache Petes ordered after the conflict ended. His involvement in the murders of Jack "Legs" Diamond and Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll is also assumed.

In 1933, Fiorello LaGuardia was elected Mayor of New York. After his predecessor, Jimmy Walker, resigned for accepting bribes , charged him and fled to Europe, he appointed Thomas E. Dewey as special prosecutor. With this, the new mayor tried to break the power of Tammany Hall , because Dewey turned against organized gambling, which had already been the business basis of the classic gangs such as the Eastman Gang or the Five Points Gang , and now in particular of Dutch Schultz and his Rackets was organized. Dewey asked for information over the radio and received over 3,000 tips from the population.

While his boss was imprisoned, Weinberg acted as his deputy. When Schultz was released, he had the impression that Weinberg was no longer loyal and was in secret contact with Lucky Luciano and Louis Buchalter in order to finally replace Schultz. The background to this was that Luciano and other high-ranking members of organized crime had spoken out against a planned assassination attempt on Dewey by Dutch Schultz, as they believed that such an act would weaken the position of their organizations and draw increased attention from the investigative authorities . On September 9, 1935, Bo Weinberg disappeared after visiting a nightclub in Midtown Manhattan and was never seen again. Rumors have it that Schultz cemented Weinberg's feet in place and then dumped him in the East River .

consequences

The Commission of the National Crime Syndicate decided after Schultz's refusal to abandon his murder plans against the prosecutor Dewey, to eliminate him in order to avert danger to the entire organization. After Bo Weinberg was murdered, Lucky Luciano ordered his murder. On October 23, 1935, Dutch Schultz was shot by Charles Workman in the men's room of the Palace Chop House in Newark. He died at 8:35 p.m. the next day at Newark Hospital . Along with him, his accountant Otto Berman , his bodyguard Lulu Rosenkrantz and his main henchman Abe Landau were also shot in the murder attempt by Charles Workman and his accomplice Emanuel Weiss . They all died a little later from their gunshot wounds .

George Weinberg (1901–1939) became a government informant after his brother's disappearance without a trace . He committed suicide on January 29, 1939, despite being housed in safe accommodation in New York's White Plains . In addition, he had brought the weapon of an officer protecting him.

Movie and movie quotes

Bo Weinberg was played by different actors

The (fictitious) murder of Abraham Weinberg is also subject of the initial chapter of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the William Dean Howells Medal- winning novel Billy Bathgate by EL Doctorow .

literature

  • Robert Lacey: Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. Century, London 1991, ISBN 0-7126-2426-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Mafia, Secret Services, and US Politics. Part 1 (1865 to 1938) ” on www.us-politik.ch
personal data
SURNAME Weinberg, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vineyard, Bo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mafioso
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: September 9, 1935
Place of death new York