Barnet Baff
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Barnet Baff (?-1914) was a poultry dealer in New York City that was murdered by organized crime that represented the "poultry trust" in New York that extorted $10 per truckload of poultry from merchants.[1][2] His death led to an investigation of organized crime in New York City and led to the resignation of Captain John McClintock.[1]
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mike Dash (2009). The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the ... Random House. ISBN 1588368637.
The chicken racket in West Washington Market, which cost Barnet Baff his life, was estimated to be worth at least one hundred thousand dollars a year, and a few years later the artichoke racket—a major source of income for Italian gangs ...
- ↑ Theodore Dreiser (1920). Hey rub-a-dub-dub: a book of the mystery and wonder and terror of life.
One Barnet Baff, wholesale chicken merchant in New York City, was murdered because he would not enter upon a scheme with other chicken-wholesalers to fix prices and extort a higher profit from the public. Secondary executors, but not primary instigators or murderers, were caught and electrocuted.
