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Irish Mob. Winter was the right-hand man to the originator of the gang, James "Buddy" McLean and took over the rackets, along with Joe McDonald, when McLean was killed during the Irish Mob Wars in 1965. In 1979 Winter, McDonald and other members of the Winter Hill Gang were arrested and indicted on federal "horse race fixing" charges.
Learn about Howie Winter, the second leader of the Winter Hill Gang, who rose to power after the murder of James "Buddy" McLean. Find out how he ran a profitable horse-racing scheme and refused to testify against James "Whitey" Bulger.
Nov 14, 2020 · Howard “Howie” Winter, who led the Boston-based Irish gang in the 1960s and ’70s, passed away of a heart attack. He was also involved in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist and had a long marriage and family.
Howie Winter then assumed control of the Winter Hill Gang. One of the surviving McLaughlin brothers, nicknamed "Punchy", was shot while waiting for a bus in the West Roxbury section of Boston. A year later, in 1966, the last two associates of the McLaughlin Gang, brothers Connie and Steve Hughes were killed, allegedly by hitman Frank Salemme .
Nov 13, 2020 · Howie Winter, the longtime leader of Somerville’s Winter Hill Gang, and former partner of Whitey Bulger, has died at 91.
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Nov 13, 2020 · Howie Winter, the longtime leader of Somerville’s notorious Winter Hill Gang and a former crime partner of James “Whitey” Bulger’s, died Thursday of a heart attack at his home in Millbury ...
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Nov 14, 2020 · A legend of the Boston underworld has passed. Retired mob boss Howard “Howie” Winter passed away from a heart attack on Thursday. He was 91. Winter was an original member and onetime boss of the infamous Winter Hill Gang in Sommerville, a rag-tag bunch of hoodlums of Irish and Italian descent.
