James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville,Massachusetts,a city directly northwest of Boston. On December 23,1994,Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler,John Connolly,tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Bulger remained at large for sixteen years. After his 2011 arrest,federal prosecutors tried Bulger for nineteen murders based on grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former criminal associates.
Edward Joseph King was an American politician who served as the 66th Governor of Massachusetts from 1979 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party until 1985,he then became a member of the Republican Party. Elected in the 1978 Massachusetts gubernatorial election,he lost the Democratic primary of the 1982 election to his predecessor Michael Dukakis.
Francis Patrick Salemme,sometimes spelled Salemmi,also known as "Cadillac Frank" and "Julian Daniel Selig",was an American mobster from Boston,Massachusetts who became a hitman and eventually the boss of the Patriarca crime family of New England before turning government witness.
Joseph Barboza Jr.,nicknamed "the Animal",was an American mobster and notorious mob hitman for the Patriarca crime family of New England during the 1960s. A prominent enforcer and contract killer in Boston's underworld,Barboza became a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant in 1967 and later entered the Witness Protection Program. He was a star witness in the trial of six men convicted in the 1965 murder of Edward Deegan;four of the accused were sentenced to death and another two were sentenced to life imprisonment. It later emerged that Barboza had helped frame the six defendants in a case of wrongful conviction for the Deegan killing,which was allegedly actually committed by Barboza and Vincent Flemmi. He was shot dead in San Francisco in 1976 after his whereabouts became known to Patriarca underboss Gennaro Angiulo.
John Joseph Connolly Jr. is an American former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering,obstruction of justice,and murder charges stemming from his relationship with James "Whitey" Bulger,Steve Flemmi,and the Winter Hill Gang.
Ilario was an American mobster who was a member of the Patriarca crime family of New England. Zannino was said to be the third-highest-ranking figure in the Boston faction of the Patriarca family,rising to the position of consigliere. He was a paternal nephew or a paternal first cousin of Boston Patriarca family mobster Phillip Zannino.
The Patriarca crime family,also known as the New England Mafia,the Boston Mafia,the Providence Mafia or The Office,is an Italian-American Mafia family operating in New England. It has two distinct factions,one based in Providence,Rhode Island,and the other in Boston,Massachusetts. The family is currently led by Carmen "The Cheese Man" Dinunzio,who is part of the Boston faction. The family is primarily active in Massachusetts,Rhode Island and Connecticut,with other territory throughout New England.
Angelo "Sonny" Mercurio was an Italian-American mobster and a member of the Patriarca crime family who became an FBI informant that recorded for the first time a mafia induction ceremony. This recording led to the incarceration of family boss Raymond Patriarca,Jr. and several other high ranking mafioso. It also became a source of embarrassment for the organization. Subsequently after incarceration Mercurio was entered into the Witness Protection Program.
Robert F. Carrozza also known as "Bobby Russo",is an Italian-American mobster from East Boston,Massachusetts,who led a bloody internal rebellion against the leadership of the Providence-based Patriarca crime family.
Vincent M. Ferrara,also known as "The Animal",is an Italian-American mobster from Boston,Massachusetts of the New England-based Patriarca crime family.
Enrico "Henry" Tameleo,also known as "The Referee",was an American mobster from Boston,Massachusetts and underboss in the New England–based Patriarca crime family and was also a member of the New York–based Bonanno crime family of La Cosa Nostra from 1952 to 1968.
Colm Felix Connolly is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. He formerly served as United States Attorney for the District of Delaware.
Timothy A. Connolly III,aka "Timmy Connolly" and "TC",was an American former South Boston bar owner and mortgage broker,who wore a wire inside the infamous Winter Hill Gang and helped the federal government indict their two leaders,James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen Flemmi. The public was led to believe that Tim Connolly was merely a businessman and an innocent victim of one of Jim Bulger's many extortions. But in truth,Tim Connolly was secretly a "made member" of the Winter Hill gang and a high ranking lieutenant in this Bulger crime family.
The 1978 Blackfriars Massacre,also known as the Blackfriars murders,is an unsolved Irish Mob and/or Italian-American Mafia massacre that occurred on June 28,1978,in the Blackfriars Pub in Downtown Boston,Massachusetts. Four criminals known to the police and a former Channel 7 Boston television investigative news anchorman,Jack Kelly,were killed,allegedly over the sale of cocaine.
Ellen Judith Huvelle is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She has overseen several significant cases. In a case decided in May 2001,Huvelle "upheld federal regulations that restrict the sale of consumers' names,Social Security numbers,dates of birth,addresses and phone numbers." Later that year,Huvelle heard requests by family members of Vince Foster seeking access to pictures of his body taken after his death. In November 2005,she accepted the guilty plea in the high-profile prosecution of lobbyist Michael Scanlon. Huvelle assumed senior status on June 3,2014.
Douglas Preston Woodlock is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut,Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating,Woodlock was a lawyer in private practice at the law firm of Goodwin,Procter &Hoar,and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Appointed to the federal bench in 1986,Woodlock presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He assumed senior status in 2015.
Denise Jefferson Casper is an American attorney serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She used to be the Deputy District Attorney for the Middlesex District Attorney's Office in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Casper is the first black female judge to serve on the federal bench in Massachusetts. Casper is also notable for presiding over the criminal trial of Whitey Bulger.
Daniel Henry Coakley was an American Democratic politician and attorney from Massachusetts. He was a key figure in early 20th century Boston politics,as an ally District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier and as an on-again-off-again ally to Mayor James Michael Curley. As an attorney,he took part in numerous badger game extortion schemes and was disbarred in 1922 for deceit,malpractice,and gross misconduct.
The murder of Edward Charles "Teddy" Deegan occurred on March 12,1965. Deegan was shot and killed in an alley next to an office building in Chelsea,Massachusetts at approximately 9:30 p.m.. In 1967 police charged six men with Deegan's murder,and at trial,the prosecution's primary witness was Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal informant Joseph Barboza. On July 31,1968,the court convicted Louis Greco,Henry Tameleo,Ronald Cassesso and Peter Limone of Deegan's murder,and sentenced them to the death penalty. Joseph Salvati and Roy French were sentenced to life imprisonment as accessories to Deegan's murder. In 1997 Salvati's sentence was commuted by Governor William Weld,and in January 2001,a judge overturned Peter Limone and Joe Salvati's convictions after uncovered FBI documents proved their innocence. In 2004,Judge Nancy Gertner ruled that federal lawsuits by the families of Louis Greco,Henry Tameleo,Peter Limone and Joseph Salvati had permission to be filed against the United States Government,and in 2007 a landmark decision ordered the United States Government to pay $101.7 million to the accused and their families for wrongful conviction. The use of FBI informants for the wrongful conviction of four innocent men is noteworthy because it unveiled the corrupt activities that occurred in the FBI during the 1960s.
The Campbell brothers was an American criminal duo that were active in Boston,Massachusetts for several decades during the mid-20th century. The duo consisted of two brothers:Arnold S. Campbell and Alvin R. Campbell Sr. The Campbell brothers were regarded to have associations with the Winter Hill Gang. The Campbells' criminal activities were primarily located in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. The Campbell brothers were each plaintiffs in the 1963 United States Supreme Court case Campbell v. United States,which related to their criminal trial for a 1957 bank robbery. In the early 1980s,authorities claimed that Alvin Campbell was the,"leading black organized crime figure in New England".
