FP Series #780 - Howie Winter Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/19/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
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Seven Hundred Eightieth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Howie Winter
Alleged mobster Howie Winter lost his bid to get out of prison early when a federal judge denied his argument that prosecutors and police colluded to catch him with just enough cocaine to qualify him for a mandatory 10-year sentence.

Winter is a former leader of the Winter Hill gang that spawned Whitey Bulger. Winter argued that Drug Enforcement Administration agents kept him in business long enough for him to sell more than 5 kilos -- the threshold for the minimum mandatory sentence.

The judge ruled that the 70 year old alleged gangster would have to serve out the seven years left on his sentence.

Winter ran the Winter Hill gang until 1979, when he was convicted of masterminding a multimillion dollar race-fixing scheme at East Coast tracks. He was also convicted of attempted extortion for making bars use his pinball machines. Winter was released from jail in the late 1980s and was free until convicted on the drug charges in 1993.

In June of 2012 Howie Winter (on the left in the picture), the 83-year-old former head of the notorious Winter Hill Gang, was released on $25,000 cash bail after his arraignment in Somerville District Court on charges of trying to extort money from two people.

Prosecutors say Winter and Melvin tried to extort $35,000 apiece from two men, repeatedly threatening them during a series of meetings, phone calls, and voicemails. But attorneys for the defendants offered a different scenario, saying their clients were acting to aid a lawyer who was himself being extorted by the two men that the government is now portraying as the victims.

That is one expensive, massive, over-the-top fence they built around this place. Of course the cache isn't on it, but it is magnetic.

 GPSr Accuracy 5.8'
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