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How we winter the original boss of the winter hill gang. He saved whiteies life when Bulger was being hunted all over Southy.

He broke her to cease fire in the gang war whitey was losing badly.

And how did whitey repay how he winter he became an informant for the FBI a snitch.

He ratted winter and the rest of their summerville crew into prison.

Howie and whitey were born five months apart in 1929.

But as howie spent much of the 80s and 90s languishing in state and federal prisons after being set up by his so called partner.

Whitey with the help of crooked cops on his payroll and assorted corrupt politicians became a millionaire in the rackets many times over.

Now though at the age of 90 winter is a free man and his treacherous cocaine dealing associate whitey is dead.

He was sentenced to death last year in the federal prison system where both howie and whitey spent so many decades.

I think that the government had him transferred up there probably wanted to get rid of him. I don't know but they never sure to put him in a place like that where he's got known rat.

And they put him in a place where he's exposed to. They have a special place where they put them in every prison.

They don't mingle with the general population.

So it was very suspicious. Let me put it that way. I felt bad for his family.

I'm out of luck. They were the ones that suffered by all his actions.

This is the story of howie winter. But this is also the story of Ellen Braña.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx behind every powerful man is a woman and this story is no exception.

Ellen, Teresa Braña, you have my consent to you the story recording.

After 16 years the FBI finally has its man.

The tip of that investigate is to a Santa Monica apartment. It was whitey and his girlfriend.

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