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Bookmark or Share- Winter Hill Gang - WikipediaThe Winter Hill Gang was a loose confederation of organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts, US, area. It was generally considered an Irish Mob organization, with most gang members and the leadership consisting predominantly of Irish-Americans, though some notable members, such as Johnny Martorano, are of Italian-American descent. [1]
- The History of the Winter Hill Gang - American Mafia HistoryThe Winter Hill Gang has a past marked by violence and internal conflicts, from its inception with Buddy McLean and Howie Winter to the notorious leadership of Whitey Bulger that gripped Boston’s criminal landscape with bloodshed and deception for years to come.
- Whitey Bulger - WikipediaJames Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (/ ˈ b ʌ l dʒ ər / ⓘ; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish Mob group in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston.
- Winter Hill Gang | American crime syndicate | Britannica…as head of the Boston-area Winter Hill Gang, was a leading figure in organized crime from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. For more than a decade, until his capture in June 2011, he was listed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as one of its 10 most-wanted fugitives.
- Whitey Bulger - The Mob MuseumIn 1979, the boss and deputy of the Winter Hill Gang, as it became known, were arrested for fixing horse races, and Bulger took over the gang’s leadership. What few knew at the time was that Bulger had been an FBI informant since at least 1974.
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