Irving "Puggy" Feinstein (October 6, 1909 – September 5, 1939) was a Jewish-American mobster involved in illegal gambling and labor racketeering with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter.
Irate over the turn of events, Strauss and a few of his coworkers decided to make Feinstein's demise more painful and lengthened.
They did so by a process which incorporates a rope being looped around the victim's neck and feet, so that as he struggled, he would slowly strangle himself.
Still aggravated over the wound on his finger, Strauss and his associates took the body to a vacant lot and set it on fire.
In his court testimony, Reles explained that the hit was carried out by Murder, Inc. for New York mobster Albert Anastasia.