Irving Feinstein

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Irving "Puggy" Feinstein (* around 1910 , † 5. September 1939 New York City ) was an American mobster in New York City, which is now the so-called Kosher Nostra and the Murder, Inc. is attributed.

Life

Feinstein belonged to the circle around Louis Buchalter and was involved in illegal gambling and labor racketeering . However, Feinstein made mistakes and was killed by Murder, Inc. as a result . The gang carried out homicide assignments for the National Crime Syndicate . In particular, Feinstein is said to have betrayed Vincent Mangano , the boss of the La Cosa Nostra clans, later known as the Gambino family .

He was in the home of Abe Reles in E.91 St. in Brooklyn abducted and there tortured . Ultimately, Harry Strauss killed Feinstein with an ice pick . The perpetrators then tried to make the body unrecognizable by fire. More Tatbeteiligte were Harry Maione and Martin Goldstein .

consequences

Harry Strauss and Martin Goldstein were later convicted of murder on the basis of the testimony of their accomplice Abe Reles and executed on June 12, 1941 in Sing Sing Prison .

literature

  • Alan A. Block: East Side-West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-1950 . New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1983. ISBN 0-87855-931-0
  • Rich Cohen: Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0-684-83115-5
  • R. Barrie Flowers and H. Loraine: Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century . McFarland & Company, 2004. ISBN 0786420758
  • Burton B. Turkus and Sid Feder: Murder, Inc: The Story of "the Syndicate" . New York: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 0-306-81288-6
personal data
SURNAME Feinstein, Irving
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puggy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American gangster in New York City
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1939
Place of death New York City