Who is killed at the beginning of E. L. Doctorow's novel Billy Bathgate (1989)?

Bo Weinberg, Dutch Schultz’s former henchman is killed at the beginning of E. L. Doctorow’s novel Billy Bathgate.

By Schultz’s orders, he is thrown off a ship with his feet encased in cement.

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