Irving Feinstein
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Irving "Puggy" Feinstein (d. September 5, 1939) was a New York mobster involved in illegal gambling labor racketeering with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. He was later murdered by several members of Murder Inc. including Abe Reles and Harry Maione, after being tied to a chair and burned to death. Harry Strauss was indicted for his death, due in part to the testimony of Reles, and sentenced to death on May 10, 1939.
[edit] Further reading
- Block, Alan A. East Side-West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-1950. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1983. ISBN 0-87855-931-0
- Cohen, Rich. Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0-684-83115-5
- Flowers, R. Barrie and H. Loraine. Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century. McFarland & Company, 2004. ISBN 0786420758
- Turkus, Burton B. and Sid Feder. Murder, Inc: The Story of "the Syndicate". New York: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 0-306-81288-6
