Samuel Fienstein
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Samuel "Tootsie" Fienstein (d. May 10, 1939) was a New York organized crime figure and a one time associate of labor racketeer Louis Buchalter. A close friend and partner of Charles "The Bug" Workman, his death was ordered by Buchalter (possibly for failing in a murder assignment or attempting to leave Buchalter's organization) and disappeared on May 10, 1939.
It has been speculated he had been taken for a "one way ride" by Workman and driven to Lyndhurst, New Jersey where he was killed and his body dumped in a mafia graveyard along the Passiac River.
[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
- Messick, Hank. Lansky. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1973. ISBN 0-7091-3966-7
- Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York: St. Martin Press, 2005. ISBN 0-312-30094-8
- Turkus, Burton B. and Sid Feder. Murder, Inc: The Story of "the Syndicate". New York: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 0-306-81288-6
