Joel Weinstock (1906-) was a Jewish-American lawyer and drug trafficker who lived in New York City and played a central role in the "French Connection" drug trafficking conspiracy of the 1970s. He and Lucchese crime family caporegime Salvatore Boca teamed up to buy $32 million (around $224 million in 2022) in heroin from French drug trafficker Alain Charnier in 1971, and, while he was arrested by the NYPD after the drug deal was crashed, he was released after his case was dismissed for "lack of proper evidence".