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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 .
James Michael Coonan (born December 21, 1946) is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who served as the boss of the Westies gang, an Irish mob group based in Hell's Kitchen, from approximately 1977 to 1988. Coonan was incarcerated and began serving a 75-year prison term in 1988.
New York mobster and leader of the Westies during the 1970s and 80s Timmy Connolly 1: No image available: 1958– 1976–1995 Member of the Winter Hill Gang Eddie "The Butcher" Cummiskey: No image available: 1934–1976 -1976 New York mobster and enforcer for mobster Mickey Spillane during the 1950s and 60s.
Featherstone was convicted in March 1986 for the April 1985 murder of Michael Holly, despite being innocent of this particular murder, which was a revenge attack probably carried out by another of the Westies, Billy Bokun. [1] He was shocked at receiving his sentence of 25 years in prison, and concluded that he had been framed by his own gang. [1]
The Westies are an Irish American gang hailing from Hell's Kitchen on the West Side of Manhattan. The most prominent members have included Eddie McGrath, James Coonan, Mickey Featherstone, James McElroy, and Edward Cummiskey.
Pages in category "Westies (New York gang)" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Radonjić supervised Westie underling Brian Bentley's highly successful burglary ring using two Hispanic gang members until the arrest of Pavle Stanimirović and his group in the early 1990s. He was an associate of Vojislav Stanimirović and his son, Pavle (aka Paul Montana, aka Punch), of the YACS organization. Later investigations under ...
Growing up in Hell's Kitchen, he played hockey with many future Westies-aligned criminals at Hell's Kitchen Park and boxed at Boys & Girls Clubs of America and eventually started burglarizing commercial buildings in Lower East Side, Manhattan and cargo from warehouses in West Side, Manhattan. He was a high school drop out, like many of the ...