Occupation Mobster Name Howie Winter | Children Howie Winter Jr. | |
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Full Name Howard Thomas Winter Born March 17, 1929 (age 95) ( 1929-03-17 ) West Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||
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Howard Thomas "Howie" Winter (born March 17, 1929) is an American mobster. He was the second boss of the infamous Winter Hill Gang.
Contents
- Citizen somerville an introduction to howie winter
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- Early life
- Irish Mob
- Later life
- References
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Early life
Winter was born in 1929 of German and Irish ancestry, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, but raised in nearby Somerville.
Irish Mob
Winter was the right-hand man to the originator of the gang Buddy McLean and took over the rackets when McLean was killed during the Irish Mob Wars in 1966. In 1979 Winter and members of the Winter Hill Gang were arrested and indicted on federal "horse race fixing" charges. James "Whitey" Bulger then replaced Winter as boss of the gang. Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi were on the original indictment, but FBI agents John Morris and the later disgraced John Connolly convinced federal prosecutor Jeremiah O'Sullivan to remove Bulger and Flemmi from the indictment because they were informants.
Winter was released from prison in 1987. In 1993, he was caught dealing cocaine. When the FBI informed him that Bulger had been an informant all those years and offered Winter a deal if he would inform on Bulger, Winter refused the deal telling the FBI he was no "rat", despite facing another decade behind bars, which he would serve, being released from prison in July 2002.
Later life
Following his release from prison, Winter worked out of his home in Millbury as a property manager. In 2012, Winter was arrested on charges of extorting money from two people. He was released on bail and the trial is still pending.