Winter Hill Gang

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The Winter Hill Gang

Introduction

For a long time , the streets of America had been controlled by organized crime syndicates . While some of these organized crime groups operate in depressed localities , others have legitimate business operations that they use to mask their criminal operations . The Boston-based Winter Hill Gang is one such group that has even connected with one of the most powerful government agencies to protect them from their operations

The Irish Gang War

The Winter Hill Gang became influential in the

1960s . For the most part of its history , Boston had been controlled by two major organized crime groups : the Italian Mafia and the Irish gangs . Two such Irish gangs were the Winter Hill Gang , which was then led by James Buddy ' McLean and the McLaughlin Brothers

It so happened that on Labor Day in the year 1961 , while enjoying their outing at Salisbury Beach , a drunk George McLaughlin had initiated what turned out to be a war between the two gangs . When George was apparently rejected by a girl who was with a Winter Hill man , it was rumored that he bit her breasts , from which her escort and other Winter Hill men beat George until he was unconscious and dumped him outside a local hospital George 's brother and leader of the McLaughlin Gang , Bernie , demanded McLean a few days later that the men who had beaten their brother to be surrendered to them to be punished , which McLean rejected . The McLaughlin...