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Winter Hill Gang
American organized crime gang
Winter Hill Gang
The Winter Hill Gang was a federation of Irish-American organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. The organization itself derives its name from the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, north of Boston. The Winter Hill Gang was given its name in the 1970s by journalists at the Boston Herald. The gang formed in Somerville under the leadership of Howard "Howie" Winter and James "Buddy" McLean. 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, were of Italian-American descent. After vanquishing the McLaughlin Gang of Charlestown, then absorbing the remnants of the Mullen and Killeen gangs of South Boston following a series of Irish gang wars, the Winter Hill Gang was most influential from 1965, under the rule of McLean and Winter, to the 1979 takeover led by James "Whitey" Bulger. Twenty-one...
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