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The White Hand Gang was a collection of various Irish American gangs on the New York City, Brooklyn, and Red Hook waterfronts from the early 1900s to 1925 who organized against the growing influence of Italian gangsters.
Name Portrait Life Years active Notes References Edmund "Eddie" Boyle No image available: 1965– 1983–2003 Gambino crime family associate [1] [2] [3] James J. "Whitey" Bulger: 1929–2018 1952–1995 Legendary Boston mobster and former leader of the Winter Hill Gang: Elmer "Trigger" Burke: No image available: 1919–1958 1941–1956
The Irish Mob War is the name given to conflicts throughout the 1960s between the two dominant Irish-American organized crime gangs in Massachusetts: the Charlestown Mob in Boston, led by brothers Bernard and Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin, and the Winter Hill Gang of Somerville (just north of Boston) headed by James "Buddy" McLean and his ...
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The Westies were a New York City-based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing.They were partnered with the Italian-American Mafia and operated out of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
Known as "Peg Leg" Lonergan, he succeeded Bill Lovett as leader of the White Hand Gang. Feuding with Frankie Yale over control of the Brooklyn waterfront, he and five of his lieutenants were killed at the Adonis Social Club under mysterious circumstances. [1] [4] Bill Lovett: 1894–1923 Labor racketeer and war hero known as "Wild Bill" Lovett.
The Five Points, Manhattan is a location that was associated with gang activities from the early 19th century. [1] In the late 1920s, Al Capone was the leader of the Chicago Outfit [2] The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club was founded in 1948 and is considered a criminal gang by American law enforcement agencies, particularly for their involvement in drug-related activities and violent crimes.
White Hand (Serbia), a secret military organization in the early 1900s; White Hand Gang, anti-Italian Irish gangs in New York in the early 1900s; White Hand Campaign, an campaign for a worldwide legal ban of child corporal punishment; White Hand Society, an organization formed by Italian-Americans to combat Black Hand criminality in Chicago