Barnet Baff

Barnet Baff (died 1914) was a poultry dealer in New York City that was murdered by organized crime that represented the "poultry trust" in New York that extorted $10 per truckload of poultry from merchants.[1][2] His death led to an investigation of organized crime in New York City and led to the resignation of Captain John McClintock.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Mike Dash (2009). The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the .... Random House. ISBN 1588368637. http://books.google.com/books?id=Kf9lAFZZ5n4C&pg=PT219&dq=Barnet+Baff&hl=en&ei=mP5xTOuSO8O88gbl4_m9Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Barnet%20Baff&f=false. "The chicken racket in West Washington Market, which cost Barnet Baff his life, was estimated to be worth at least one hundred thousand dollars a year, and a few years later the artichoke racket—a major source of income for Italian gangs ..." 
  2. ^ Theodore Dreiser (1920). Hey rub-a-dub-dub: a book of the mystery and wonder and terror of life. http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA45&dq=Barnet%20Baff&ei=mP5xTOuSO8O88gbl4_m9Aw&ct=result&id=QP0YAAAAYAAJ&output=text. "One Barnet Baff, wholesale chicken merchant in New York City, was murdered because he would not enter upon a scheme with other chicken-wholesalers to fix prices and extort a higher profit from the public. Secondary executors, but not primary instigators or murderers, were caught and electrocuted."