- Source: Louis Cohen
Louis Cohen (Born Louis Kushner alias “Louis Kerzner” January 1, 1904 – January 28, 1939) was a New York mobster who murdered labor racketeer "Kid Dropper" Nathan Kaplan and was an associate of labor racketeer Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. He was killed along with Isadore Friedman, another Buchalter associate, who was believed to be an informant. It is not known whether Cohen was murdered for being a potential informant or whether he was accidentally killed during the shooting that was supposed to target Friedman.
Biography
Born Louis Kushner aka Kerzner, Cohen was a minor criminal in the employ of racketeer Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen when he was hired by lieutenants Louis Buchalter, Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro and Jack "Legs" Diamond to murder rival mobster Nathan Kaplan. He later killed him while under police escort outside the Essex Market Court House in lower Manhattan on August 28, 1923. Immediately arrested by police, he was subsequently convicted of Dropper's murder and sentenced to 20 years to life imprisonment at Sing Sing Prison. Released on parole in 1937, he was gunned down on January 28, 1939.
Footnotes
References
Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. ISBN 1-56025-275-8
Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
Further reading
Chiocca, Olindo Romeo. Mobsters and Thugs: Quotes from the Underworld. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2000. ISBN 1-55071-104-0
External links
Louis Cohen at Find a Grave
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Stanley Cohen (biokimiawan)
- Andy Cohen
- John Rand (pemeran)
- One Direction
- Zayn Malik
- Louis Leterrier
- Amerika Serikat
- Muhammad
- Grimsby (film)
- Bruno Mars
- Louis Cohen
- Philip "Little Farvel" Cohen
- Jean-Louis Cohen
- Ralph Louis Cohen
- Ash Baron-Cohen
- Stanley Cohen (biochemist)
- Louis Cohen (conductor)
- Murder, Inc.
- Andy Cohen
- Leonard Cohen
