# Sam Fleisher

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/sam-fleisher/

Brother and co-defendant of Harry Fleisher in a 1936 internal revenue conspiracy case from Detroit; held at Alcatraz as No. 327 from 1936 to 1937, and listed in a 1948 FBI Miami memorandum among men said to be members of the Detroit Purple Gang.

The birth date is the one on the Alcatraz page (4/28/08). The death date is from the National Archives catalog description of the page, which gives 18 January 1960 in Miami; it is catalog data, not an entry on the page. No role or family is set: the 1948 memorandum reports what the Miami office was told, and the Alcatraz committee's remark that he was "allegedly one of the 'Purple Gang'" is staff opinion.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: Alcatraz warden's notebook page, No. 327: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735228
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Sam Fleisher, No. 327, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236735228), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735228