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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.
Doherty was born on April 6, 1928, in Charlestown. [1] He graduated from Malden Catholic High School, where he was an All-Catholic guard on the football team.He played on the Harvard freshman football team, but his football career was ended by a bout of tuberculosis which required a two-year stay at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium.
Edward J. McLaughlin (May 16, 1917 – October 20, 1965) was an American boxer and a member of "The McLaughlin Brothers" gang of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Vincent Teresa, former mobster described Edward in his biography "My Life in the Mafia" as, "Punchy was just as crazy as George... a legbreaker for the longshoreman's union (International Longshore and Warehouse Union).
Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. [1] Also called Mishawum by the Massachusett , it is located on a peninsula north of the Charles River , across from downtown Boston, and also adjoins the Mystic River and Boston Harbor waterways.
Richard Frothingham Jr. (January 31, 1812 – January 29, 1880) was a Massachusetts historian, journalist, [2] and politician. Frothingham was a proprietor and managing editor of The Boston Post. [2] He also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, [1] and as the second mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the United States.
James Joseph McLean (January 26, 1930 – October 31, 1965) was an American mobster boss, who was the original boss of the Somerville, Massachusetts-based Winter Hill Gang during the 1960s. McLean was well known throughout the Greater Boston area as an unstoppable street fighter. He accumulated injuries including several scars on his neck and ...
O'Toole and 46-year-old Joseph M. (Rockball) O'Rourke from Medford, Massachusetts were arraigned on charges in 1970 and imprisoned at the same jail while awaiting trial. O'Rourke, a powerful and loyal associate of the Charlestown Mob, was being held for his involvement in the shooting of Boston patrolman Robert Noonan.
Jonathan Stone (April 29, 1823 – November 26, 1897) was a Massachusetts politician who served on the Common Council, and as the twelfth and last mayor, of Charlestown, Massachusetts; and on the Revere, Massachusetts, Board of Selectmen.