# Benjamin Tannenbaum

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{{Short description|American mobster}}
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{{Infobox criminal
| name                 = Benjamin Tannenbaum
| other_names          = Benny the Boss
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| birth_date           = c. {{birth year|1906}}
| birth_place          =
| death_date           = February 6, {{death year and age|1941|1906}}
| death_place          =
| death_cause          = Assassination by gunshot
| spouse               =
| children             =
| allegiance           = [Louis "Lepke" Buchalter](/source/Louis_Buchalter) and [Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro](/source/Jacob_Shapiro)
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'''Benjamin "Benny the Boss" Tannenbaum''' (c. 1906 – February 6, 1941) was a New York mobster involved in narcotics and the fur rackets as well as a mob accountant for labor racketeer [Louis "Lepke" Buchalter](/source/Louis_Buchalter) and [Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro](/source/Jacob_Shapiro). 

==Biography==
A friend of Bronx real estate agent Max Heitner, whom he had met at a New York summer resort, Tannenbaum was shot twice in the chest and killed while babysitting Heitner's four-month-old baby. [Seymour "Blue Jaw" Magoon](/source/Seymour_Magoon), a member of [Murder, Inc.](/source/Murder%2C_Inc.), was later brought into custody for Tannenbaum's murder. It has been speculated, as he had knowledge of Charles "The Bug" Workman's role in the 1935 gangland slaying of [Dutch Schultz](/source/Dutch_Schultz), that Tannenbaum may have been targeted as a potential informant during District Attorney [Thomas E. Dewey](/source/Thomas_E._Dewey)'s prosecution against Louis Buchalter.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20041019184924/http://www.killthedutchman.net/chapter_XX.htm KILL THE DUTCHMAN! by Paul Sann<!-- bot-generated title -->]}} at www.killthedutchman.net </ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite magazine
|author=
|title=Speaking of Crime
|date=1941-02-17
|magazine=[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))
|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,850985,00.html
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609084209/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,850985,00.html
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=June 9, 2010
|accessdate=2008-08-10
}}{{subscription required}}

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Category:1900s births
Category:People murdered in 1941
Category:People murdered by Murder, Inc.
Category:Murdered Jewish American gangsters
Category:Murdered American gangsters
Category:Jewish American gangsters
Category:Deaths by firearm in New York (state)
Category:People murdered in New York (state)
Category:20th-century American Jews

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