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The Westies: Inside New Yorks Irish Mob Free Ebook FREETHE WESTIES: INSIDE NEW YORKS IRISH MOB EBOOK T. J. English | 544 pages | 14 Jul 2008 | Transworld Publishers Ltd | 9780553819564 | English | London, United Kingdom :Customer reviews: The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob One day in the s, this Irish American gang nearly The Westies: Inside New Yorks Irish Mob gangland history by wiping out the entire New York Mafia. Read More: The top Irish mobster movies. As the meeting began, the Italians began to question the Irish mobsters about an Italian loan shark who had been murdered. The leader of Westies denied any involvement, even though this was an outright lie. The Gambino Boss, seemingly happy with this response, then suggested that the Westies should come under the protection of the Italian Mob but under the condition that they stop acting like cowboys. Coonan, seeing an opportunity to increase his profits and power, decided to make the deal. In return, the Westies would fall under the protection of the Mafia and would also get a slice of Mafia business. Relieved that The Westies: Inside New Yorks Irish Mob had gone well, the mobsters settled in for some dinner. As the two sides began to enjoy their meals and wines, Coonan became lost in conversation until he suddenly looked at his watch and realized that it was past the time for his hit squad to enter into the restaurant and massacre everyone inside of it. The panicked leader of the Westies quickly excused himself and began to walk out of the restaurant fearing with every step that the building would suddenly blow up into an inferno of grenades and gunfire. Once Coonan was outside, he rushed to the place where his Westies gang was assembled and found them drinking whiskey with guns and grenades at the ready. When the Irish mobster asked where they had been, he was told that his hit squad had decided to wait a few more minutes and have another whiskey just in case. 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How the Irish Mob nearly wiped out the Italian Mafia in NYC When Coonan was a young man, Mickey Spillanea well-known mobster who frequently employed the kidnap-for-ransom racket of local merchants to their families, had kidnapped, pistol-whipped and severely beaten Coonan's father John, a local accountant. English has credited this event in several The Westies: Inside New Yorks Irish Mob as Coonan's motivating factor in the takeover of the Westies. ByCoonan and Featherstone were engaged in taking over Spillane's territory, culminating in the shooting of Spillane, for which Featherstone was arrested and acquitted, and the death of Stein. InCoonan was tried and acquitted for the murder of Harold Whitehead, but convicted on weapons charges and sentenced to four years in federal prison. After his release he resumed power, but in was convicted of racketeering under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act RICO and sentenced to 75 years in prison with the judge's recommendation of denying parole. He and his wife Edna b. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American gangster. Main article: Westies. Since his marriage a year ago, inhe'd moved out of the neighborhood to a modest, two-story house just across the river in Keansburg, New Jersey, a quiet, lily-white middle-class suburb. The house in Hazlet, New Jersey is the last small cottage at the end of a dead end street. Edna put out a family memorial, about their family being chained together in hell in the afterlife. Instead of a cross, she hid an inverted pentagram in a flower engraved into the stone. Harper Collins. Open Road Media. The New York Times. Retrieved Justia Law. Sussex Publishers, LLC. Accessed August 29, Macmillan Publishers Gambino crime family. Gotti Richard V. Gallo John Gambino John A. John Alite Frank Abbandando Jr. Ozone Park Boys. The Westies: Inside New Yorks Irish Mob crew Baltimore Crew. Kefauver Committee — Valachi hearings Castellammarese War — Lucchese family Genovese family Bonanno The Westies: Inside New Yorks Irish Mob Colombo family Westies. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles with hCards. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Nederlands Edit links. Active Ozone Park Boys. James Coonan - Wikipedia Written by T. Narrated by James Anderson Foster. Upload Sign In Join. Find your next favorite audiobook Become a member today and listen free for 30 days Start your free 30 days. Home Audiobooks Organized Crime. Play Sample. Create a List. Download to App. English Narrated by James Anderson Foster. Ratings: Rating: 4. Length: 13 hours. In the mids, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window. Under their reign, Hell's Kitchen becomes a place where death literally rains from the sky. But when Mickey goes down for a murder he didn't commit, he suspects his friend has sold him out. He returns the favor, breaking the underworld's code of silence and testifying against his gang in open court. From one of the writers behind NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street comes an incredible true story of what it means to survive in the world of organized crime, where murder is commonplace. Related Authors. English is one of the best writers of true crime reporting that is a leap above the usual cheap paperbacks full of gory pictures that you see at the grocery store. His books are well-written, well-researched, and as much about the context of the crime or organized crime group that he is writing about. The Westies is his first book. In it you can see him working through all the things that will make his later books so fascinating. While he's written most about organized crime, he's continuing to expand his repertoire into further fields. Since Whitey Bulger was captured I've been wanting to go back and read this one - it was very hard to find when I discovered English and the one copy I did find was, shall we say, extremely used - ultimately the copy was so filthy it made it hard The Westies: Inside New Yorks Irish Mob want to read it. I was very happy to see that the book had been published in a Kindle format and really dug into things this time. The Westies is about a group of semi-organized criminals who operated out of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York now called Clinton. They grew up in an atmosphere were crime was a way of life and they became one of the most notorious gangs in history. For twenty years they ruled with an iron fist - dismembering, murdering, selling drugs, robbing, loansharking - the list goes on and on. They terrified the Italian mob so much that they made an alliance with The Westies in order to try to tamp down the violence that caused a lot of unwanted attention. The Westies were a phenomenon of their changing time - the world they grew up in and into was a different place than the world of their parents. Much of their extreme brutality can be explained by the quote above along with exposure to the Vietnam War and their use and abuse of cocaine along with many other drugs. They were brought down by Mickey Featherstone, a long-time member and right-hand man to James "Jimmy" The Westies: Inside New Yorks Irish Mob, the nominal leader of the crew. Featherstone is a complicated figure and the tale of his association with the Westies is a fascinating one.
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