The Winter Hill Gang is a loose confederation of Boston, Massachusetts-area organized crime figures, predominantly Irish-American with a small Italian-American faction. It derives its name from the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts north of Boston. Its members have included notorious Boston gangsters Howie Winter ("Howie"), James McLean ("Buddy"), James J. Bulger ("Whitey"), and hitman Stephen Flemmi ("The Rifleman").

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  • The Winter Hill Gang is a loose confederation of Boston, Massachusetts-area organized crime figures, predominantly Irish-American with a small Italian-American faction. It derives its name from the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts north of Boston. Its members have included notorious Boston gangsters Howie Winter ("Howie"), James McLean ("Buddy"), James J. Bulger ("Whitey"), and hitman Stephen Flemmi ("The Rifleman"). They were most influential from 1965 under the rule of McLean and Winter until the takeover led by Bulger in 1979. The Winter Hill Gang was given its name in the 1970s by journalists at The Boston Herald, although the name was hardly ever openly used as a reference to them. While Winter Hill Gang members are alleged to have been involved with most typical organized-crime-related activities, they are perhaps most known for fixing horse races in the north-eastern United States. Twenty-one members and associates, including Winter, were indicted by federal prosecutors in 1979.
  • La Winter Hill Gang è stata una confederazione criminale di Boston, composta da malfattori di origini irlandesi ed, alcuni, italiane. Il nome della banda (che tradotto vuol dire Banda della Collina Invernale) prese spunto da alcune formazioni collinari situate a Somerville, a nord del Massachusetts. Tra i membri principali che hanno capeggiato questa banda vi erano: Howard "Howie" Winter, James "Buddy" McLean, James "Whitey" Bulger e Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi.
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  • The Winter Hill Gang
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  • 1950s-2003
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  • The Winter Hill Gang is a loose confederation of Boston, Massachusetts-area organized crime figures, predominantly Irish-American with a small Italian-American faction. It derives its name from the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts north of Boston. Its members have included notorious Boston gangsters Howie Winter ("Howie"), James McLean ("Buddy"), James J. Bulger ("Whitey"), and hitman Stephen Flemmi ("The Rifleman").
  • La Winter Hill Gang è stata una confederazione criminale di Boston, composta da malfattori di origini irlandesi ed, alcuni, italiane. Il nome della banda (che tradotto vuol dire Banda della Collina Invernale) prese spunto da alcune formazioni collinari situate a Somerville, a nord del Massachusetts. Tra i membri principali che hanno capeggiato questa banda vi erano: Howard "Howie" Winter, James "Buddy" McLean, James "Whitey" Bulger e Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi.
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