Winter Hill Gang

Rating: 9/10 (14 October 2006)

While watching this movie I got the Idea that it could be based on the real life story of Whitey Bolger as well as what someone else wrote (maybe that's where they got the original idea). If you know the story of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston and yes they were southies, then I highly recommend the Movie. In the late Seventies a gang calling itself the Winter Hill Gang were murdering at will and trying to take over the city of Boston's underworld. Led by Whitey Bolger they used every means at their disposal including the legal system to hide what they were doing. Whitey finally fell when he went into business with two out of state investors. On his orders they were killed separately in Okalhoma and Florida. Investigators from the FBI tied the two murders together and upon further investigation found a suspect mole in their organization in Boston. It touched off a scandal in the FBI and the Federal Witness Protection program because Whitey was using it to protect himself. Whitey then disappeared and has not been heard from since.