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The Irish Mob (also known as the Irish mafia or Irish organized crime) is a usually crime family –based ethnic collective of organized crime syndicates composed of primarily ethnic Irish members which operate primarily in Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and have been in existence since the early 19th century.
St. Louis organized crime figure and one time leader of Egan's Rats. Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. 1908–1932. 1924–1932. New York mobster and freelance enforcer during Prohibition. James Coonan. 1947–. 1962–1988. New York mobster and leader of the Westies during the 1970s and 80s.
Kinahan Organised Crime Group. The Kinahan Organised Crime Group (KOCG), also known as the Kinahan Cartel, is a major Irish transnational organised crime syndicate alleged to be the most powerful in Ireland and one of the largest organised crime groups in the world. [30] [31] [32] It is also established in the UK, Spain, and the United Arab ...
The Winter Hill Gang was a loose confederation of organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.It was generally considered an Irish Mob organization, with most gang members and the leadership consisting predominantly of Irish-Americans, though some notable members, such as Johnny Martorano, are of Italian-American descent.
James McElroy. Boško Radonjić. The Westies were a New York City -based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing. They were partnered with the Italian-American Mafia and operated out of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
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 . After his arrest and imprisonment in 1999, he became a cooperating witness.
This is a glossary of words related to the Mafia, primarily the Italian American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia . administration: the top-level "management" of an organized crime family -- the boss, underboss and consigliere. [1] associate: one who works with mobsters, but has not been asked to take the vow of Omertà; an almost confirmed, or made guy.
The K&A Gang, or the Northeast Philly Irish Mob, is a predominantly Irish American criminal network based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The K&A Gang was started following World War II and controlled the city's Irish-American criminal underworld for much of the late 20th century. The group was mainly a burglary ring for much of its early ...