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The Winter Hill Gang was a loose confederation of American organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts area. It was generally considered an Irish Mob organization, with most gang members and the leadership consisting predominantly of Irish-Americans, although some notable members, such as Stephen Flemmi and Johnny Martorano, are of Italian-American descent.
James 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 based in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, northwest of Boston.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum), a gunrunner for the Boston Irish Mob, becomes an informant; when the mob finds out, they send his friend Dillon (Peter Boyle) to kill him. Sorcerer (1977), one of the main characters is a member of an Irish gang and on the run following a botched attempt to rob an Italian Mafia crew.
Three inmates charged in the violent killing of notorious Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger while imprisoned with him in West Virginia have accepted plea agreements, court filings show ...
Bulger ran the largely Irish mob in Boston in the 1970s and ’80s. He was also an FBI informant who provided the agency with information on the main rival to his gang.
This is a list of Irish-American mobsters which includes organized crime figures of predominantly Irish-American criminal organizations or individual mobsters from the early 1900s to the present. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a mobster .
The Irish Mafia and the History of Organized Crime. ... a music club in South Boston. Suspected mob boss Frank "Cadillac" Salemme had a hidden interest" in The Channel, the Drug Enforcement ...
The 1978 Blackfriars Massacre, [1] [2] also known as the Blackfriars murders, [3] is an unsolved Irish Mob and/or Italian-American Mafia massacre that occurred on 28 June 1978, in the Blackfriars Pub in Downtown Boston, Massachusetts.