1930s in organized crime

• Doorway to Hell (film) starring Lew Ayres and James Cagney
  .

• May 30 – Corrado Carnevale, Sicilian High Court judge and mafia associate
• November 16 –
  mafia boss
• December – James Torello "Turk", Chicago Outfit member and involved in loansharking

Deaths

• Ike Bloom [Isaac Gittelson], Jim Colosio lieutenant
• George Defeo, Murder, Inc. member
• George Maloney, Chicago gangster and co-leader of a bootlegging gang with Michael "Bubs" Quinlan
• Joe Parrino, New York mobster
• February 4 – Julius Rosenheim, Chicago gangster and police informant
• February 20 –
  Carlo T. Piranio
  , founder of the Dallas crime family
• February 26 –
  Tom Reina
  , New York mobster
• April – Raymond "Craneneck" Nugent Bank robber and killer "Vanished" in Florida.
• April 13 – Clinton G. Price, Wisconsin District Attorney and political figure
• May 6 – Crime boss Tony Buccola "vanishment"
• May 31 – Gaspar Milazzo, former New York mobster and now leader of the Detroit crime family
• June 9 –
  Alfred Lingle
  , journalist
• June 30 – Thomas Somneiro, Chicago Outfit lieutenant
• July 5 – Joseph Porrello, Cleveland mobster
• July 31 – Thomas McNichols, Chicago bootlegger
• July 31 – James Schupe "Bozo", Chicago bootlegger
• August 15 –
  Peter Morello, "The Clutching Hand", Masseria consigliere and former leader of the Morello crime family
• September 5 –
  Joe Pinzolo
  , New York mobster
• September 23 –
  Unione Siciliane
  .
• November 5 – Steve Ferrigno, New York mobster
• November 5 –
  Alfred Mineo
  , New York mobster

1931

Events

• "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and The Five Families
  .
• The Castellammarese War continues as mob boss Joe Masseria offers to negotiate with his rival, Salvatore Maranzano. Maranzano and the Castellammarese faction refuse to end the war, demanding the death of Masseria ally Joe "The Baker" Catania. Although Catania would be murdered later in 1931, the war would continue.
• Mobster
  1921
  . Shortly after his arrest, the 40-year-old Sabella retires as leader of the Philadelphia crime syndicate in favor of lieutenant John Avena.
• Charles Entratta, a partner of New York gangster
  Jack "Legs" Diamond is gunned down in a Brooklyn
  neighborhood.
• February 3 – Joe Catania is killed as he leaves his home in New York. It is thought that Masseria ordered Catena's murder out of suspicion that he was hijacking Masseria's liquor shipments.
• April 15 – Mob boss Joe Masseria is killed by Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, and Bugsy Siegel on the orders of Lucky Luciano. Ciro Terranova drives the getaway car. This effectively ends the long Castellammarese War in New York.
• May – Following Masseria's death,
  Charles Luciano
  and others conspire to eliminate Maranzano.
• September 10 – On orders of
  Night of the Sicilian Vespers" in which many old world Sicilian-born mafiosi are killed throughout the country by the Luciano-Lansky faction in the aftermath of the Castellammarese War
  .
• September 13 – Joseph Siragusa, leader of the Pittsburgh crime family, is shot to death in his home. He is succeeded by John Bazzano.
• September 17 –
  Willie Shapiro
  would also be killed, buried alive by Reles and his associates.
• October 15 –
  Joe Ardizonne, head of the Los Angeles crime family, disappears and is presumed murdered (possibly a victim of the "Night of the Sicilian Vespers"). Mobster Jack Dragna
  {died 1956} would go on to succeed Ardizzone as leader of the Los Angeles family.
• October 17 – Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000
• December 18 –
  Jack "Legs" Diamond is shot to death while staying at a safe house in Albany, New York
  by a number of unidentified gunman.
• December 22 – Irish-American mob boss Frankie Wallace, on the pretense of a sit-down with Italian-American mobsters, is ambushed and murdered in
  North End. The Gustin Gang
  would be the first victims in a three-year systematic elimination of Irish-American gangsters in the United States.

• Little Caesar (film) [1] starring Edward G. Robinson
• The Public Enemy (film) [2] starring James Cagney
• Smart Money (film) [3] starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney
• Road to Perdition starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig
• Season 5 of HBO's Boardwalk Empire

• Vincent Napoli, Gambino crime family member and Brooklyn drug smuggler
• Leonard Teperow,
  West Roxbury
  bookmaker and Mafia associate
• Al Tornabene "Pizza Al", Chicago Outfit boss
• March 19 –
  drug baron and organized crime
  leader.
• September 30 – Giuseppe Calò "The Banker", Sicilian mafioso

Deaths

• Charles Entratta "Charlie Green", New York mobster and associate of Jack Diamond
• February 3 – Joe Catania, New York mobster and a lieutenant to Joe Masseria
• April 15 –
  Giuseppe Masseria
  "Joe the Boss", New York mobster, boss of bosses
• May 8 – Sam Carlino Underboss to brother Pete Carlino of Colorado's Bootleg gang.
• July 11 – Irving Shapiro, New York (East Side) mobster
• September 10 – Salvatore Maranzano, New York mobster, boss of bosses
• September 10 – Pete Carlino, Head of Colorado bootleggers.
• September 10 – James Marino (James LaPore), Salvatore Marranzano lieutenant
• September 10 – Samuel Monaco, Salvatore Maranzano ally and New Jersey underboss
• September 10 – Louis Russo, Salvatore Maranzano ally and New Jersey consigliere
• September 13 – Joseph Siragusa, leader of the Pittsburgh crime family
• September 17 – Meyer Shapiro, New York (East Side) mobster
• October 15 – Joseph Ardizzone, Los Angeles crime family boss
• December 22 – Frankie Wallace, Boston mobster and leader of the Gustin Gang
• December 22 – Barney (Dodo) Walsh, Boston mobster and member of the Gustin Gang

1932

Events

• Atlanta Federal Penitentiary after his 1931 conviction for tax evasion. Francesco "Frank 'The Enforcer' Nitti" Nitto succeeds Capone as leader of the Outfit. But, since Capone is in prison, Felice "Paul 'The Waiter" Ricca" DeLucia becomes the real, new Outfit boss. With all of Chicago's organized crime activity consolidated into the Outfit, that organization begins to resemble the modern day National Crime Syndicate
  .
• Louis "Lepke" Buchalter's "The Combination (called Murder, Inc. by the press) for National Crime Syndicate
  murder contracts.
• Future Gambino crime family leader, Paul Castellano, is brought into the family] by boss Carlo Gambino.
• Sicilian mafiosi
  Rome, Italy
  while in prison.
• February 9 – Renegade hitman
  Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll is killed in a drive-by shooting at a public telephone booth while attempting to extort money from mob boss Owney "Killer" Madden
  .
• July 29 – Pittsburgh bootleggers John, Arthur, and James Volpe are shot to death in a Pittsburgh coffee shop. The hits were reportedly ordered by Pittsburgh crime family leader John Bazzano.
• August 8 – John Bazzano is found stuffed in a burlap sack on a Brooklyn street He had been strangled, then stabbed to death. Bazzano's murder may have been connected to the gangland slaying of the Volpe brothers weeks earlier. Vincenzo Capizzi would later succeed Bazzano as head of the Pittsburgh crime family.
• September 1 – New York Mayor
  Seabury Commission
  .

Arts and literature

• Scarface (film) [4] starring Paul Muni.

Births

• Salvatore Bonanno "Bill", Bonanno crime family member and son of crime family boss Joseph Bonanno.
• Frank Imbruglia, East Boston gunman
• labor union
  racketeer.
• Giuseppe Lambeti "Joe", drug trafficker involved in the Pizza Connection and cousin of Salvatore Lamberti
• Salvatore Lamberti, Sicilian mafiosi convicted in the Pizza Connection
• July 28 – Alphonse D'Arco "Little Al", Lucchese crime family acting boss turned government witness.

Deaths

• Vito Cascio Ferro, Sicilian mafiosi
• February 9 –
  Irish-American
  mobster
• March 16 – Antonio Lonzo, New York mobster
• March 16 – Gerard Vernotico, New York mobster
• July 29 – John Volpe, Pittsburgh bootlegger
• July 29 – Arthur Volpe, Pittsburgh bootlegger
• July 29 – James Volpe, Pittsburgh bootlegger
• August 8 – John Bazzano, Pittsburgh crime family leader

1933

Events

• Reform Mayor Fiorello La Guardia is elected mayor of New York City.
• Recently released from prison, Salvatore "Sam" "Mooney" Giancana becomes a bodyguard and chauffeur to Antonino "Tony," "Joe Batters" Accardo.
• Walter Sage, a member of Brooklyn's Abe Reles-Harry Maione gang, is stabbed to death by Murder, Inc. assassin "Pittsburg Phil" Harry Strauss.
• January 24 – Charles "King" Solomon, the leading Prohibition bootlegger in Boston's underworld, is killed at the Cotton Club in South Boston.
• March 7 – Salvatore Sabella, along with John Avena and Domenico Pollina, are acquitted for a 1927 gangland slaying.
• May 30 – Sebastiano Domingo aka Buster from Chicago killed in New York City; five others wounded-of whom one died.
• June 17 – In an attempt to free bank robber Frank "Jelly" Nash from federal custody, Verne Miller, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and Adam Richetti, ambush federal agents and local police at the Kansas City Union Station parking lot resulting in the deaths of FBI Agent
  Kansas City Massacre
  ".
• August 12 – Gas Fascone, a gunman for Kansas City mobster John Lazia, is shot and killed by police after murdering Joe Lusco lieutenant Ferris Anthon.
• October 9 –
  St. Valentine's Day Massacre
  .
• November 29 –
  Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and one of the surviving gunmen of the Kansas City Massacre, is found murdered in Detroit (possibly members of New Jersey mobster Abner Zwillman
  's organization).
• December 5 – Prohibition ends following the ratification of the 21st Amendment.

Arts and literature

• Lady Killer (film) [5] starring James Cagney.

Births

• Burmese warlord and opium
  dealer.
• Stephen Maltese, Genovese crime family associate
• August 8 – Carmine Persico "The Snake", Colombo crime family, boss
• October 2 –
  Aniello Migliore, Lucchese crime family underboss
• November 14 – Danny Greene "The Irishman", Cleveland gangster

Deaths

• Walter Sage, Brooklyn mobster and associate of Abe Reles-Harry Maione gang
• January 24 – Charles Solomon, Boston Prohibition gangster
• May 30 – Sebastiano Domingo aka Buster from Chicago killed in New York City
• June 17 –
  Kansas City Massacre
• June 17 –
  Kansas City Massacre
• August 12 – Ferris Anthon Joe Lusco lieutenant
• August 12 – Gas Fascone, Kansas City mobster
• October 9 – Gus Winkler, Chicago (West Side) mobster involved in illegal gambling and bootlegging
• November 29 –
  Kansas City Massacre

1934

Events

• Unione Siciliana
  , a Sicilian fraternal organization, in Chicago.
• April 22 – Baby Face Nelson, hiding out with John Dillinger, at the Little Bohemia Lodge just outside Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin kills FBI Special Agent W. Carter Baum in a shootout.
• Spring – Headed by
  Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to discuss the formation of a National Crime Syndicate
  .
• July 2 –
  Hartford County
  Jail, Castellano serves three months before being released in December.
• July 22 –
  FBI
  .
• October – New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia orders a police raid on gambling parlors. This raid damages over 1,000 slot machines owned by mob boss Frank Costello.
• October 9 –
  Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia is abducted by Willie Gallo and Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo after a dispute with Vito Genovese
  over a fixed card game. Boccia is later murdered.

• When the Kellys Rode (film) [6]
• Jimmy the Gent (film) [7] starring James Cagney.

Births

• November 6 – Isoji Koga, the founder of the Dojin-kai^[1]
• Americo Petrillo "The Cigar", Patriarca crime family soldier and associate of William P. Grasso
• Frank Salemme "Cadillac Frank", Patriarca crime family leader and former member of the Winter Hill Gang

Deaths

• April 26 - John "Red" Hamilton, bank robber mortally wounded by police on April 23 in Minnesota and later died in Illinois
• May 23 –
  Clyde Barrow
  , outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
• May 23 –
  Bonnie Parker
  , outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
• July 22 –
  FBI
• August 23 - Homer Van Meter, bank robber shot dead by police in St. Paul MN
• September 22 - Charles Makley, bank robber shot by prison guards during an attempted escape from Ohio State Prison
• October 9 –
  Ferdinand Boccia
  , New York mobster
• October 17 - Harry Pierpont, bank robber executed by electric chair
• October 22 -
  Charles Arthur Floyd
  , Public enemy #1 shot dead by the FBI
• November 27 –
  Babyface Nelson
  , Public enemy #1 died from wounds suffered in a shootout with 2 FBI agents

1935

Events

• Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Madden later settles in Hot Springs, Arkansas
  , establishing gambling operations there and forming political attachments through his hotel operation.
• Gunman
  Joseph "Joey Doves" Aiuppa joins the Chicago Outfit to help protect their criminal operations in Cicero, Illinois
  .
• January 30 – Frank Milano, former boss of the Cleveland crime syndicate, flees the United States for Mexico. Milano is succeeded by Alfred "Big Al" Polizzi.
• March – Salvatore Sabella is arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for three months for illegally distilling alcohol in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
• April – Tri-State Gang member Francis Wiley is convicted of the 1934 kidnap-murder of Philadelphia racketeer William Weiss. Tri-State Gang leaders Walter Legenza and Robert Mais had previously been convicted of murder and executed in Richmond, Virginia in February.
• July 16 – "Lupo the Wolf"
  Ignazio Saietta
  is charged with extortion. Saietta had been intimidating Italian bakers into joining a local New York labor union he controlled.
• July 25 – George Musey, associate boss of the Downtown Gang, is assassinated by the Maceo Crime Syndicate.
• August 22 – Vincenzo Troia, Sicilian mafiosi and associate of former "boss of all bosses" Salvatore Maranzano, is gunned down. Troia was reportedly conspiring to assume control of the Newark-based New Jersey crime syndicate.
• September 9 –
  Louis Buchalter
  . Schultz may have murdered Weinberg after returning to power.
• October 23 – After threatening the life of New York State prosecutor
  Abraham Landau at the Palace Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey. The hit is reportedly conducted by Albert Anastasia's crew on orders from Lucky Luciano's National Crime Syndicate. Shultz's criminal operations are subsequently taken over by Vito Genovese with the help of lieutenant Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola
  .
• October 23 – Martin "Little Marty" Krompier, premier enforcer and lieutenant of Dutch Schultz's policy operations in Harlem, is severely wounded by rival gunmen. This attack comes just hours after Schultz and his other associates are gunned down in Newark. Krompier ultimately survives the attack.

Arts and literature

• 'G' Men (film) [8] starring James Cagney.
• The Petrified Forest (broadway play written by Robert E. Sherwood) starring Humphrey Bogart.

Deaths

• Walter Legenza, co-leader of the Tri-State Gang
• Robert Mais, co-leader of the Tri-State Gang
• August 22 – Vincenzo Troia, Sicilian mafiosi and associate of Salvatore Maranzano
• September 9 – Abraham 'Bo' Weinberg, Dutch Schultz lieutenant
• October 23 – Dutch Schultz (Arthur Flegenheimer), New York Prohibition mobster and member of the National Crime Syndicate
• October 23 – Otto Berman, financial consultant of Dutch Schultz
• October 23 –
  Abraham Landau
  , Dutch Schultz gunman
• October 23 –
  Lulu Rosencrantz
  , Dutch Schultz gunman

1936

Events

• U.S. Attorney Thomas Dewey successfully prosecutes mobster
  Sherman Anti-Trust Act
  . Shapiro receives a two-year sentence.
• Syndicate numbers runner and bookie
  Las Vegas, Nevada
  .
• January 4 – Ciro Terranova, a former boss of the New York Morello crime family, is arrested by New York City police on vagrancy charges as he was entering Manhattan.
• February 14 –
  St. Valentine's Day Massacre
  , is murdered in a Milwaukee Avenue bowling alley, in Chicago.
• May 1 – Alvin "Creepy Karpis" Karpowicz is arrested in New Orleans, he is the last of the public enemies to be captured and is the only public enemy to be captured alive.
• May 19 – Nicholas Longo, the sister of Buffalo, New York mobster Steve Magaddino, is killed by a bomb explosion in an attempt on Maggadino's life.
• June 6 – As part of his crusade against organized crime, U.S. Attorney
  Dannemora, New York
  .
• July 15 – President
  1918
  .
• August – While again attempting to return to Manhattan, Ciro Terranova is arrested on a second vagrancy charge and is held in custody.
• August 17 – "Big Nose"
  1939. After Avena's death, underboss
  Joe Bruno assumes control of the Philadelphia organization from his headquarters in New Jersey.
• September 12–13 – Joseph Rosen, a
  Emmanuel Weiss, James Ferraco and Harry Strauss. The crime would remain unsolved until 1940, when mobster Abe Reles
  became a government informant and implicated Buchalter.

• Bullets or Ballots (film) [9] starring Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart.
• Dead End (broadway play written by Sidney Kingsley)
• Fury (film) [10] starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy.
• The Petrified Forest (film) [11] starring Humphrey Bogart.

Births

• James Basile "Duke", Chicago Outfit bookmaker and later government informant
• John DiGilio "Johnny Dee", Genovese crime family member involved in New Jersey waterfront labor racketeering and loansharking
• Gaetano Mazzara "Tommy", business partner and cousin of Frank Castronovo involved in the Pizza Connection
• Gambino Crime Family
• Salvatore Mazzurco, brother-in-law of Giuseppe Lamberti and drug trafficker involved in the Pizza Connection
• February 9 –
  Anthony DiLapi, Lucchese crime family
  soldier
• June 22 – Masaru Takumi, the founding head of the Takumi-gumi

Deaths

• Paul Kelly (Paolo Antonini Vaccarelli), Five Points Gang leader
• February 14 – Jack McGurn (Vincenzo Gibaldi) "Machine Gun", Chicago Outfit member
• August 17 – John Avena "Big Nose", Philadelphia crime syndicate leader
• September 12–13 – Joseph Rosen, Brownsville candy store owner and government witness

1937

Events

• Ciro Terranova, former leader of the Morello crime family, is arrested for vagrancy in New York.
• January 8 – The Cuban government places certain gambling operations under the control of future Cuban President Col. Fulgencio Batista. Batista then allows New York mobster Meyer Lansky and his associates to open the first syndicate casinos in Havana.
• February 22 –
  Joseph Profaci). D'Amico eventually flees the country and his organization is taken over by Stefano Bedami (DeCavalcante), now answering to the Five Families
  of New York.
• May 11 – Gambler
  Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia is murdered by Willie Gallo and Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo on the orders of mob boss Vito Genovese
  .
• June 14 – Francesco Lanza, leader of the San Francisco crime syndicate and father of the future leader John Lanza, dies of natural causes and is succeeded by Anthony Lima.
• October 5 –
  1939
  .

Arts and literature

• Dead End (film) [12] starring Humphrey Bogart.
• Kid Galahad (film) [13] starring Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart.
• The Last Gangster (film) [14] starring Edward G. Robinson.

Births

• Vincent DiNapoli "Vinnie", Genovese crime family lieutenant involved in construction and labor union racketeering
• John Matarazzo, Genovese crime family member
• John Paul Spica, associate of Anthony Giodano
• March 17 –
  Frank Calabrese, Sr., hitman of the Chicago Outfit

• May 11 –
  Ferdinand Boccia
  "The Shadow", New York mobster and gambler
• June 14 – Francesco Lanza, leader of the San Francisco crime syndicate and father of the future leader John Lanza

1938

Events

• John Giannola of "Green Ones gang" of East St Louis-died age 40 of natural Causes.^[2]
• After losing his estate in Pelham Manor, New York, former mob leader Ciro Terranova returns to New York City. On February 19, Terranova suffers a stroke and dies the following day.
• Julius Richard "Dixie" Davis, longtime defense lawyer for Dutch Schultz, is imprisoned.
• May 2 – Detroit mobster Joe Tocco is shot in the back and dies the following day. His death was possibly connected to mobster Joseph Zerilli, who had been consolidating his power in Detroit since the end of Prohibition.
• August 21 –
  lime pit near the small town of Loch Sheldrake, New York
  .

• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (film) ^[3] starring Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart.
• Angels with Dirty Faces (film) ^[4] starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart.
• Racket Busters (film) ^[5] starring Humphrey Bogart.

Births

• John E. Farrell "Fast Jack", Patriarca crime family associate
• February 11 –
  drug trafficker
• December 14 – Frank Cullotta, Chicago Outfit associate and Soldier in Las Vegas

Deaths

• January 5- John Ginnola of "Green Ones gang" of East St Louis^[6]
• February 20 – Ciro Terranova "The Artichoke King", Morello crime family leader ^[2]
• May 2 – Joe Tocco, Detroit mobster
• August 21 –
  Louis Buchalter

1939

Events

• Mayfield Road Mob in Cleveland, purchases the Continental Press racing wire service from Moses Annenberg
  .
• The three year gang war between the
  Lanzetti Brothers ends after the death of leader William Lanzetti
  . The remaining Lanzetti gang members leave the city soon after.
• Chicago Outfit member Salvatore "Sam," "Mooney" Giancana is sentenced to three-years imprisonment.
• After his arrest in
  1937 for drug trafficking in New Orleans, Nicola Gentile flees the United States while out on bail. He later returns to Sicily
  .
• Ferdinand Boccia, later arriving in Sicily
  .
• January 28 –
  Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
  , are murdered in New York City.
• January 29 – George Weinberg, a numbers runner for Dutch Schultz, commits suicide while under police protection shortly before his scheduled testimony against Schultz.
• April 28 – Abraham "Whitey" Friedman is murdered by Murder, Inc. gunmen, on orders of Louis Butchalter.
• May 10 – Tootsie Fienstein, a one time associate of Louis Buchalter, is murdered.
• May 25 – New York
  Teamsters Union President Morris Diamond, on orders of Albert Anastasia, is murdered by members of Murder, Inc.
• Summer – Jack Dragna's gambling ships, in operation since Prohibition, are closed by the federal authorities.
• August 24 –
  Thomas Dewey and extradited to New York
  where he is charged and later executed for murder.
• September 6 – New York racketeer Irving "Puggy" Feinstein is murdered by members of Murder, Inc., including Abe Reles and Harry Maione, after being tied to a chair and burned to death.
• October 20 –
  Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. He is reportedly succeeded by Charles Binaggio
  .
• November 16 – Due to ill health,
  Alcatraz, and committed to a hospital for treatment of paresis
  .

• Persons in Hiding, non-fiction book by J. Edgar Hoover.
• Each Dawn I Die, film starring James Cagney and George Raft.
• King of the Underworld, film starring Humphrey Bogart.
• The Roaring Twenties, film featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
• You Can't Get Away with Murder, film starring Humphrey Bogart.

Births

• Pietro Alfano, drug trafficker and nephew-in-law to Gaetano Badalamenti
• Louis DeSorbo "Big Louie", associate of the Genovese crime family
• Peter Gotti "One Eyed Pete", member and one time acting boss of the Gambino crime family
• Gennaro Langella "Jerry Lang", Colombo crime family, acting boss
• Joseph Ligambi "Uncle Joe", Philadelphia crime family, boss
• FBI infiltrator of the Bonanno crime family
• April 23 –
  mafia boss

• Walter Stevens, Chicago gangster involved in labor slugging
• January 28 – Louis Cohen, government witness
• January 28 – Isadore Friedman, government witness
• January 29 – George Weinberg, government informant and former associate of Dutch Schultz
• April 28 – Abraham "Whitey" Friedman, Murder, Inc. victim
• May 10 – Tootsie Fienstein, associate of Louis Buchalter
• May 25 –
  Teamsters Union
  President
• September 6 – Irving Feinstein "Puggy", New York racketeer

References