Oscar Friedman

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Oscar "The Poet" Friedman (*?; † in the 20th century) was an American mobster and worked for the crime organization Murder, Inc. , which was responsible for numerous murders in New York in the 1930s - but also in other states was. Today it is included in the so-called " Kosher Nostra ".

Life

Little is known about Oscar Friedman, except that he - like most of the other members of Murder, Inc. - came from one of the poorer Jewish neighborhoods of New York and was arrested around 1940. The name "The Poet" resulted from this arrest, as he was picked up while sitting on a park bench while he was reading sophisticated literature.

Friedman has been suspected of being involved in various murder cases . This was followed by an indictment by prosecutor William O'Dwyer , who had made it his goal to take action against Murder, Inc. and in the late 1930s had put the focus of his investigation on the gang leader Louis Buchalter .

Within the criminal organization Friedman had the function in particular of getting escape vehicles and automobiles that were involved in any form in criminal offenses or were used for the removal of corpses disappear.

It did so in such a way that Friedman, who (ostensibly) worked as a car dealer and had a parking space in a winding backyard in Brooklyn , simply resold the vehicles. If this was not possible, the vehicles were dismantled into their individual parts or scrapped.

After his arrest, Friedman testified to the authorities and appeared as an incriminating key witness against the contract killers Martin Goldstein and Harry Strauss . Both were sentenced to death and executed on the electric chair in Sing Sing Prison.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picture and brief description of the facts in Suspect "Oscar The Poet" Sitting Next to Window at Precinct. In: corbisimages.com. August 1, 2010, accessed January 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Report from Life Magazine (English): LIFE. from Sept. 30, 1940, ISSN  0024-3019 , Volume 9, No. 14, p. 86. Restricted preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Friedman, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poet, The (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mobster
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century