George Weinberg (1901 – January 29, 1939) was a New York
mobster and, with brother
Abraham Weinberg
Abraham "Bo" Weinberg (January 7, 1900 – September 9, 1935) was a Jewish New York City mobster who became a hitman and chief lieutenant for the Prohibition-era gang boss Dutch Schultz. As Schultz expanded his bootlegging operations into Manha ...
, an associate of
Dutch Schultz as a mob accountant during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1935, following the disappearance of his brother and the gangland murder of Schultz, he decided to become a government informant and testified against his former associates.
However, while under police protection in a safehouse in
White Plains, New York
(Always Faithful)
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, he stole a gun from one of the detectives guarding him and committed suicide on January 29, 1939.
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1901 births
1939 suicides
1939 deaths
American accountants
Jewish American gangsters
Suicides by firearm in New York (state)
20th-century American Jews
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