The Winter Hill Gang was a loose confederation of American organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

…as head of the Boston-area Winter Hill Gang, was a leading figure in organized crime from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. For more than a decade, until his capture in June 2011, he was listed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as one of its 10 most-wanted fugitives.

2024年9月12日 · The Winter Hill Gang has a past marked by violence and internal conflicts, from its inception with Buddy McLean and Howie Winter to the notorious leadership of Whitey Bulger that gripped Boston’s criminal landscape with bloodshed and deception for years to come.

James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (/ ˈ b ʌ l dʒ ər / ⓘ; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish Mob group based in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, northwest of Boston.

Kevin Weeks (born March 21, 1956) is an American former mobster and longtime friend and mob lieutenant to Whitey Bulger, the infamous boss of the Winter Hill Gang, a crime family based in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts.

2024年5月5日 · Born in Weymouth, Mass., in September 1971 to a “s–t-faced” mother and a father he never met, he was first exposed to the country’s most powerful Irish American mob, the Winter Hill Gang, when...

The Winter Hill Gang operated out of Somerville in the 1960s and 1970s. Also known as the Winter Hill Mafia, it was one of Massachusetts' most notorious organized crime groups. The Winter Hill Gang was considered the top Irish Mob syndicate on the East Coast.

In 1979, the boss and deputy of the Winter Hill Gang, as it became known, were arrested for fixing horse races, and Bulger took over the gang’s leadership. What few knew at the time was that Bulger had been an FBI informant since at least 1974.

2024年4月23日 · Boss of Boston's Winter Hill Gang in the 1970s and '80s, Whitey Bulger perpetrated untold murders before being brutally killed himself by a fellow prison inmate in 2018. From violent Boston mob boss to MKUltra test subject, Whitey Bulger's life is the stuff of legend.

2024年2月1日 · The Lancaster Street Garage, a parking garage at 131 Lancaster Street (near North Station and the present-day TD Garden), was once known as the “West End headquarters” of “Whitey” Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish organized crime ring in Boston.