Howie Winter

Howard Thomas "Howie" Winter (born March 17, 1929) is an American mobster. He was the second leader of the infamous Winter Hill Gang. Winter was born in 1929 of Irish and German ancestry, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, but raised in nearby Somerville. Winter was the right-hand man to the originator of the gang Buddy McLean and took over the rackets when Buddy 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 leader of the gang. Bulger and Flemmi were on the original indictment, but FBI agents John Morris and the later disgraced John Connolly convinced federal prosecutor Jeremiah...