# Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/jacob-shapiro/

Defendant with Louis Buchalter in the federal fur dressers antitrust cases. His 1936 Sherman Act conviction was affirmed in 1937; he became a fugitive, surrendered on April 14, 1938, and was sentenced again on June 17, 1938. The FBI states he was sentenced on May 5, 1944 to 15 years to life for conspiracy and extortion.

The FBI's history page and its 1939 narrative call him Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro; the Second Circuit names him Shapiro and quotes a witness who knew him as "Mr. Gurrah." An alias read from the OCR of a Bureau arrest summary is not given here, because it has not been checked against the page image.

The Second Circuit affirmed his Sherman Act conviction on testimony that tied him to the Protective Fur Dressers combination. The FBI's account of the fur rackets, which attributes their violence to Shapiro and Buchalter, is the Bureau's narrative. The FBI's mug shot of him is served at the FBI's site and is not stored here. No record filed on this page states a family, a rank, or a role in any organization.

## Sources

- Federal Bureau of Investigation, History: Fur Dressers Case: https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/fur-dressers-case