Albert Tannanbaum was a member of the notorious kill for hire organization in Brooklyn known as Murder, Inc. He assassinated people for money and fingered others to be killed. One of the men he was involved in murdering was Hyman Yuran, a dress manufacturer whose body wasn't discovered for many months. Another was a taxi driver who was slain in Lochsheldrake, New York. Tannenbaum's father ran a hotel in the Catskills that was frequented by mobsters. He joined up with Jacob Gurrah Shapiro and Louis Lepke Buchalter who frequented the establishment.