Benjamin Tannenbaum
American mobster
About Benjamin Tannenbaum
Lived 1906 – 1941 (aged 34–35).
Benjamin "Benny the Boss" Tannenbaum (c. 1906 – February 6, 1941) was a New York mobster involved in narcotics and the fur rackets as well as a mob accountant for labor racketeer Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro.
Biography A friend of Bronx real estate agent Max Heitner, whom he had met at a New York summer resort, Tannenbaum was shot twice in the chest and killed while babysitting Heitner's four-month-old baby. Seymour "Blue Jaw" Magoon, a member of Murder, Inc., was later brought into custody for Tannenbaum's murder. It has been speculated, as he had knowledge of Charles "The Bug" Workman's role in the 1935 gangland slaying of Dutch Schultz, that Tannenbaum may have been targeted as a potential informant during District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's prosecution against Louis Buchalter.
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Who was Benjamin Tannenbaum?
American mobster
When was Benjamin Tannenbaum born?
Benjamin Tannenbaum was born in 1906.
When did Benjamin Tannenbaum die?
Benjamin Tannenbaum died in 1941.
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