Irish Gangs – The Westies – Part 5
At that point the information provided by the Featherstones resulted in the arrest of Coonan and several other Westies on state charges of murder and other crimes. Shortly afterward, federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani announced a devastating Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) indictment against Coonan and others for criminal activities going back twenty years. Featherstone testified in open court for four weeks in the trial that began in September 1987 and concluded with major convictions in 1988. Jimmy Coonan was sentenced to sixty years in prison on assorted charges. Other leading gang members were also sentenced to long prison terms, including James “Jimmy Mac” mcelroy, a top enforcer who was sentenced to 60 years, and Richard “Mugsy” Ritter, a career criminal sentenced to 40 years imprisonment on loan-sharking and drug related charges. [edit] Kevin Kelly and Kenny Shannon During the mid-to-late 1980s, while Jimmy Coonan lavished in his luxurious suburban home, and Mickey Featherstone futilely attempted to support his family by legitimate means, Kevin Kelly and his sidekick, Kenny Shannon, became the most active racketeers on the West Side. Sports, gambling, and dealing coke to young professionals on the East Side were their primary rackets. In 1988, after two years on the run, Kelly and Shannon could no longer take the heat and decided to turn themselves in to the authorities. Giuliani claimed that they were the last ruling body of the Westies …
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Raymond Steen is a faggot cocksucker.
i dont kno bout the worst but dublin certainly is bad iv got 3 letters for ppl who dont think so, IRA
they moved out the working gangsters and moved in the suited gangsters, robbing you with a pen instead of a gun.
alot a places are not safe, not just nyc.Hell’s Kitchen was a bad neighbood in the 70′s and 80′s but now it has change.
I’m from Dublin Ohio and it is a fine place for people and Families ! I love that this is about NYC and people are talkin Ireland !!! LOL
Bosko The Yugo Radonjich!!!
You make no sense. But whatever Dublin is a wonnderful place to live and is no worse than any other big city in the world. Get that through your head
your just talking shite saying what i said i live in tallaght sure victim of no crime i can tell ye that never got bullied or anything said to me unlike yourself
Dude shutup already. Its just as bad in all the other big cities. You just cant except that cus your were probly a victim of some sort of crime and think that Dublin is the worst city in the world now. Well its not
haha yea yea
thats what i said “its nothing to any other city” but were not in another city were in dublin were it is bad to people living here it doesnt matter were else is worse
How am i? I walk around dublin at night everytime i go there. Theres no more murders there than any other big city! So just shutup because you dont know what your talking bout
no sorry you are i no it happens in every other big city sure dublins nothing to the rest of them i just mean dublins a shithole and unsafe if your a certain type of person at a certain time of day or night your unsafe walking around the city im not sayin aww dublins the worse im sayin its a shithole it actually is worse then most places though
That stuf happens in every big city. not just Dublin. Your just a paranoid person
do you not read the paper there has been 3 shootings in the past 2 weeks and the rest before that there was a body found in the tallaght mountains lastnite then hits put out on a family in tallaght that were involved theyv now dissapeared grandparents and all,were have you been all you have to do is open the evening
Another case of a group not tolerating apostates. If they had just let this guy go, they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble, but it backfired in their faces.
Im from Dublin. Yeah theres alot of fights in the pubs round there but thats just cause there drunk. That happens everywhere in evry country. Where have you been?
were are you from because mostly every night there was people beatin to a pulp by thugs for nothing you couldnt walk around dublin city at night probably the nicest but not the safest nice means yank tourists doing polls saying whats nice about dublin dublin city is a shithole
thats not true. Dublin has been named nicest city in europe twice. do your research before you say stuff cus you have no idea what you’re talking about
yea you should see irelasnd now a days murder capitol of europe place is mad
‘Cos it’s a very badly researched, romantized version of events
thats for sure, i got so turned of the book time and time again, it was so bias it was sickening…
he wanted to paint a sunshine end to it. actually if he knw so much about the westies, why didnt he refer to the present day westies, ran by johnny connan (jackies son), and eddie cummiskeys son , eddie jnr….
DeMeo was never made captain.
@arsenalylknw12010 – iv read the book and i agree, it does try and paint featherstone out to be a better guy than he actually was. He was as bad as coonan for murder and violence. You get the impression the author is bias towards featherstone rather than coonan
@CarloTheGambino – which is the better book westies or murder machine?
Iv read westies but not murder machine
ok fair enough dude