December 21, 1946 - James Coonan
As boss of the Westies, Coonan presided over one of the most violent street gangs in New York City during the late 1970s and 1980s, operating out of Hell's Kitchen at a time when the neighborhood's criminal landscape was particularly brutal. His organization's willingness to carry out contract killings eventually drew the attention of the Gambino crime family, with whom the Westies maintained a working alliance. That partnership, and the violence underlying it, ultimately provided federal prosecutors with the foundation for the racketeering case that ended with his 75-year sentence.
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James Michael Coonan (born December 21, 1946) is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who served as the boss of the Westies gang, an Irish mob group based in Hell's Kitchen, from approximately 1977 to 1988. Coonan was incarcerated and began serving a 75-year prison term in 1988.
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