Isadore or Irving Friedman (died January 28, 1939), also known under the alias Danny Field, was a New York mobster and an associate of labor racketeer Louis "Lepke" Buchalter

Louis Buchalter

Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was a Jewish American mobster and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s. After Dutch Schultz' request of the Mafia Commission for permission to kill his enemy, U.S. Attorney Thomas Dewey, the Commission decided to kill Schultz in order to prevent the hit...

. He later agreed to testify against Buchalter on behalf of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey as one of several high profile witnesses scheduled to testify against Buchalter, however he was murdered with Louis Cohen

Louis Cohen

Louis Cohen was a New York mobster who murdered labor racketeer "Kid Dropper" Nathan Kaplan and was an associate of labor racketeer Louis "Lepke" Buchalter...

on January 28, 1939 shortly before his court appearance.

Further reading

• Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 0-23109683-6
• "Killings Revealed In The Lepke Case". New York Times. 14 Jan. 1939