Irwin Schiff

Irwin "The Fat Man" Schiff (January 5, 1937 – August 8, 1987) was a New York City businessman and mob associate. On paper, he was the head of Construction Coordinators Corp. of Queens that had neither a phone number nor office. He has been said to be a loanshark linked to the Mafia and seen dining with Lucchese crime family boss Anthony Corallo.

Biography Schiff was born in The Bronx on January 5, 1937, and attended William Howard Taft High School (New York City).

Criminal history In 1962, Schiff was convicted of writing fraudulent checks and pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 1977. He was given a five-year suspended sentence and fined $5000. At the time of his death, he was under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and facing court judgments of approximately $1 million.

Schiff's estate was "a $6 million empire, including a $1.5 million East Side penthouse, two Rolls Royces and a Lincoln Town Car, plus investments in a singing-sister act and an aborted movie project about mobster Lucky Luciano."