Samuel Lindenbaum

Samuel Lindenbaum (1900 Charlestown, Massachusetts- September 23 1966 Middleton, Massachusetts) a.k.a. "Sammy" was a member of the Charlestown Mob and friend Stevie Hughes.

Biography

Samuel Lindenbaum is German-American descendant from Konstanz, Germany or Estonia. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts and later lived with his wife in Revere, Massachusetts. He was involved in illegal abortion clinics, extortion and loansharking. Samuel was a close friend and business partner of Henry Tameleo. Samuel had been paying Don Peppino for the right to operate in the Lynn, Massachusetts and Lawrence, Massachusetts area. He was the proprietor of a laundromat. In the 1960's he became involved with Stephen Hughes in illegal gambling, and had become close friends. Hughes acted as an enforcer for him. Tameleo did not like Steve's relationship with Samuel and became wary of Lindenbaum. He warned Samuel to end his relationship with Steven and stay away from him, but he did not listen. Samuel Lindenbaum was murdered with Steven Hughes Sr. by Joseph Barboza. For unknown reasons this German-American fit in with the predominantly Irish and Irish-American Charlestown Mob. The Patriarca crime family installed a wire tap on their phone and discovered where he and Hughes were planning to make their collection run that day. Lindenbaum owned two pet Chihuahua dogs which he had in the back seat the day he was murdered. The dogs survived the barrage of bullets and car crash. They had jumped out of the broken windows and when police were dispatched to the scene they were found playing in the grass around the car. They caught up with them in Middleton near the Three Pines Restaurant. Joseph Barboza shot at them with a high-powered rifle loaded with armor piercing shells. He died in a hail of gunfire from unknown triggermen alongside his employer Stevie Hughes on September 23rd, 1966 while he drove Hughes through Middleton, Massachusetts at the age of sixty-eight. His suspected murderers are James J. Bulger and Stephen Flemmi. Lindebaum was just killed because he was driving the car for Steven Hughes.

Five minutes after Lindebaum and Steven were shot dead. Henry Tameleo told Thomas Rossi, Robert Cardiello and Vincent Teresa to search Lindenbaum's laundromat for whatever valuables they could find. Cardillo and Teresa broke into the laundromat and found three envelopes filled with diamonds and close to $40,000 in loose cash. When they returned to Tameleo, they discovered someone had been sent to Lindenbaum's home on Revere Parkway and had pilfered $80,000 from behind the home's radiator. Don Peppino, Raymond Patriarca and Henry Tameleo took over his lucrative loanshark enterprise. Vincent Teresa supervised the collections.

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