1935 in organized crime

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Abraham Weinberg, a lieutenant of Dutch Schultz, is killed. He had been running Shultz's organization since going into hiding in 1933. Reportedly, Weinberg had been secretly negotiating with syndicate leaders Charles Luciano and Louis Buchalter and was killed shortly after Schutz's return to power.
Martin "Little Marty" Krompier, premier enforcer and lieutenant of Dutch Schultz's policy operations in Harlem, is severely wounded by rival gunmen but survives the attempt on his life.
After several years of police surveillance following the death of Vincent Coll, Owney Madden leaves New York and later settles in Hot Springs, Arkansas, eventually establishing gambling operations and forms political attachments through his hotel.
Joseph Aiuppa is hired by the Chicago Outfit as a gunman, to protect criminal operations in Cicero, Illinois.
January 30 - Frank Milano, former boss of the Cleveland crime syndicate, leaves the United States fleeing to 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 are had previously been convicted of murder and executed in Richmond, Virginia in February.
July 16 - "Lupo the Wolf" Ignazio Saietta is charged with extortion, after threats against Italian bakers to join a local New York labor union headed by himself.
August 22 - Sicilian mafiosi and associate of former "boss of all bosses" Salvatore Maranzano, Vincenzo Troia is gunned down for reportedly conspiring to assume control of the Newark-based New Jersey crime syndicate.
October 23 - After threatening the life of New York State prosecutor Thomas Dewey, Dutch Schultz is murdered with the leading members of his organization Otto Berman, Lulu Rosencrantz and Abraham Landau at the Palace Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey by Albert Anastasia's crew on the orders of Lucky Luciano's National Crime Syndicate. His criminal operations are subsequently taken over by Vito Genovese with the help of lieutenant Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola.

[edit] Arts and literature

'G' Men (film) [1] starring James Cagney.
The Petrified Forest (broadway play written by Robert E. Sherwood) starring Humphrey Bogart.

[edit] Births

Victor Spilotro - Chicago mobster and brother of Anthony and Michael Spilotro.

[edit] Deaths

Walter Legenza, co-leader of the Tri-State Gang
Robert Mais, co-leader of the Tri-State Gang
Abraham Weinberg, a lieutenant of Dutch Schultz
August 22 - Vincenzo Troia, Sicilian mafiosi and associate of Salvatore Maranzano
October 23 - Dutch Schultz, 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