Harry Fleischer was a Jewish mobster originally from Poland. He settled in Detroit, Michigan where he became a leader of the notorious Purple Gang. The criminal organization dominated Motor City vice beginning in the 1920s. Fleischer became a fugitive when he fled Michigan following an armed robbery conviction. In 1950 Federal Bureau of Investigation G-Men caught Fleischer with a female companion lying in the sun in Pompano Beach, Florida. Taken to Miami he was held for extradition for the murder of Michigan State Senator Warren Hooper.