Career
One of many former associates killed by Murder Incorporated. on the orders of Buchalter, he had recently been called in for questioning by investigators with crusading District Attorney Thomas East. Dewey and gunned down in a drive by as he was walking near his home on East 96th Street during the early evening of April 25, 1937 (although other sources state 1935). Before his murder, Friedman was suspected of informing on Buchalter.