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Abe Landau

Case from Newark, NJ dated Oct 23, 1935

Victim Details

Abe Landau

Male

Newark

NJ

1935-10-23

39

Abe

Landau

07/19/2026

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Abe Landau, a 39-year-old Jewish man, had risen from obscurity to become the quiet but indispensable chief henchman to New York crime boss Dutch Schultz. Unlike some of the loud, swaggering racketeers around him, Landau was known for his composure and brains; he handled delicate jobs, money, and negotiations, the trusted lieutenant Schultz relied on when a situation required “coolness and cunning rather than gunfire and brutality.” By the autumn of 1935, however, the world he helped Schultz ...
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