# Abraham Friedman

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**Abraham "Whitey" Friedman** (c. 1897 – April 25, 1939) was a New York mobster and former associate of [Nathan "Kid Dropper" Kaplan](/source/Nathan_Kaplan) and later for labor racketeers [Louis "Lepke" Buchalter](/source/Louis_Buchalter) and [Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro](/source/Jacob_Shapiro) as an enforcer in New York's garment district during the 1920s and 1930s.[1] One of many former associates killed by [Murder, Inc.](/source/Murder,_Inc.) on the orders of Buchalter, he had recently been called in for questioning by investigators with crusading District Attorney [Thomas E. Dewey](/source/Thomas_E._Dewey), and was gunned down as he was walking near his home on East 96th Street in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn) during the early evening of April 25, 1939.[2] Before his murder, Friedman was suspected of informing on Buchalter.

## References

1. [Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - Allan May's Mob Report current mob stuff](http://www.americanmafia.com/Mob_Report/4-22-02_Mob_Report.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20061206072731/http://www.americanmafia.com/Mob_Report/4-22-02_Mob_Report.html) December 6, 2006 at the Wayback Machine at www.americanmafia.com

1. "Fur Racket 'Squealer,' Out on Bail, Slain Here," *Brooklyn Eagle*, April 26, 1939.

## 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
- Fried, Albert. *The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America*. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 0-231-09683-6
- ["Gunman Kills Man Linked To Lepke"](https://www.nytimes.com/1939/04/26/archives/gunman-kills-man-linked-to-lepke-victim-indicted-as-one-of-gang.html). *The New York Times*. April 26, 1939. p. 17. (subscription required)

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