Winter Hill Gang - Historical Leadership - Members

Members

  • Salvatore Sperlinga ("Sal") - Howie Winter's lieutenant and bookkeeper, killed in 1980.
  • Edward “Teddy” Deegan - Bank robber and associate of Stevie Flemmi.
  • Patrick Nee - Associate of Bulger's with close ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, arrested in 1990 by the FBI, but was released after April 2000. Now works in South Boston.
  • Anthony D'Agostino ("Tony Blue") - Buddy McLean's bodyguard, with McLean at Peppermint Lounge in Somerville when he was killed 1965.
  • Thomas Ballou, Jr. ("Tommy") - Buddy McLean's driver and bodyguard. He was killed in 1970.
  • Joseph McDonald ("Joe Mac") - An original member of the gang. McDonald was a hitman, World War II veteran and street fighter. FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List until he was arrested by the FBI before he could turn himself in. The FBI received information on his whereabouts from Whitey Bulger. He died in 1997 after being released from prison.
  • Jeffrey Dorr - known associate. Deceased 2006.
  • Alexander Federico Petricone Jr. ("Bobo") - It was Petricone's girlfriend on Labor Day weekend of 1961 that McLaughlin hit winter Hill and the Charlestown gangs. The following year Petricone moved to California and changed his name to Alex Rocco, acting in the film The Godfather as well as nearly 200 other movie and television roles from 1965 to present.
  • Russell Nicholson - He was an original member of the gang as well as a police officer. He reportedly was the driver during the 1961 gangland slaying of Bernie McLaughlin and subsequently fired by the police force shortly thereafter. He was later kidnapped and killed in retaliation by the Charlestown Gang (McLaughlin Bro's) in 1964.
  • James Simms ("Jimmy") - Released from prison in 1986, his whereabouts are unknown.
  • Mike Iavello - (narcotics) Left Boston area for Florida.
  • John Shea ("Red") - known associate and narcotics dealer for the gang.
  • Vincent Teresa - became an FBI informant against the Patriarca crime family after he was arrested in 1967. He wrote the book My Life in the Mafia, although he was never inducted into La Cosa Nostra.
  • John "Mick" Murray - Irish-American gangster and professional Bank Robber from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. Reputed to have ties with organized crime in Montreal, and the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Murray was also implicated along with South Boston gangster Pat Nee with planning a series of gun shipments to the Irish Republican Army. Plead guilty and was sentenced to nine years in federal prison on July 1, 2002 to embezzlement, extortion, racketeering and theft for shaking down a Southie bookmaker, stealing computer equipment from UPS trucks and attempting to defraud the union pension and welfare fund.
  • Jerry Perkins ("Poker Face") - became a member in 1973, he has been known to frequent slyfox with his dame, is still alive and living in south Boston.
  • Thomas J. Ballot Jr. - former bodyguard of Buddy McClean and close friend of Thomas F. Birmingham.
  • Louis Litif - was recruited by Bulger for extra muscle in the 1970s and a suspect in the 1978 Blackfriars Massacre.
  • Anthony Veranis - local boxer who was murdered by Johnny Martorano in 1966.
  • George W. Holden - professional welterweight boxer and small time criminal.
  • Timothy A. Connolly 3rd - was a soldier for Bulger until becoming an informant in 1989, owned the Corner Cafe, is half Italian-American and half Irish-American.
  • James M. Murphy - was on Boston Police Department's "Most Wanted List".
  • Paul Moore ("Polecat") - is currently a soldier.
  • Dennis Horkenbach ("Blumpkin") - known associate.
  • Ronnie Fronduto - former associate.
  • Jimmy Flynn - was a soldier who later became an actor.
  • Tommy McKinnon - known associate.
  • Edward "Eddie Mac" MacKenzie, Jr- enforcer and narcotics dealer for the gang, co-author and subject of the book: "Street Soldier: My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Irish Mob."

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