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Before Bernie formed his own crew he was a loan shark and enforcer for the Angiulo Brothers of the North End, Boston.After the Irish gangs decided to break away from Italian control, Bernie and his brothers (Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin and George McLaughlin (aka Little George, July 7, 1927 – January 2022) took over the rackets in and around Charlestown, Massachusetts.
The Charlestown Mob was an Irish mob group in Charlestown, which figured prominently in the history of Boston for much of the 20th century. [1]The gang was headed by the McLaughlin brothers (Bernie, Georgie, and Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin) and their associates brothers Stevie and Connie Hughes from Charlestown.
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.
Afterward, Bernie McLaughlin went to Buddy McLean for an explanation. When McLean refused to give up his associates, Bernie swore revenge but was soon killed by McLean in Charlestown City Square. The war resulted in the eradication of the Charlestown Mob with its leaders, Bernie and Edward McLaughlin, and Stevie and Connie Hughes all having ...
He also showed a reporter a gang Whatsapp thread with texts from gang members threatening turf wars with the Venezuelans. Octavia Mitchell, 52, lost her son to gun violence in 2010 and her nephew ...
Bernard "Bernie" McLaughlin: No image available-1961 Boston mobster and founder of the McLaughlin Brothers: Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin: No image available-1965 Boston mobster and member of the McLaughlin Brothers George McLaughlin No image available: 1927– Boston mobster and member of the McLaughlin Brothers [4] [7] [18] James "Buddy" McLean ...
Another child who died in the atrocity, Sean McLaughlin, 12, from Buncrana, was described as a “lively, lovely boy” who had written a poem presented to the then Irish president Mary McAleese ...
The gang itself is named after the Venezuelan state of Aragua, where the gang grew out of a local labor union and formed into a crew of inmates who took control of a local prison and slowly ...