John Martorano Part 4-John and the crew establish Winter Hill as an underworld force, John goes on the lamb

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Send us a text John, Whitey and Stevie Flemmi corral independent bookmakers and life was good on Winter Hill in Somerville, Ma. The crew soon turned to race fixing and the money poured in. Gerry Angelo had advised a burgeoning Winter Hill to avoid that exact race fixer, a degenerate gambler. Ignoring Gerry's advice would cost John Martorano sixteen years he spent on the lamb, avoiding the indictment. World Jai Alai was also a massive stream of revenue for the Hill, a sale of the business insp...

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