Paul Castellano, who was the Godfather of the Gambinos, requested a meeting in an Italian restaurant with the leader of the Westies, Jimmy Coonan, in an attempt to reel in the gang’s worst excesses.

Federal inmates who committed their offenses before Nov. 1, 1987, can’t seek compassionate release, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Wednesday.

James “Jimmy Mac” McElroy was serving a 60-year sentence for racketeering in ... “Jimmy [Coonan] said they wanted someone whacked,” McElroy testified, ...

Coonan came to mind when the OPP announced they had made an arrest in the 2010 dismemberment murder of Bolton contractor Morris Conte. The 45-year-old was last heard from in Caledon on May 21, 2010.

The tome, published two decades ago, centers on the rise to power of the Westies gang during the 1970s and ’80s in the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan. The Irish-American gang led by Jimmy ...

Bosko Radonjic, the colorful Slavic gangster and John Gotti henchman who once helmed the legendary Westies crime syndicate, has died. He was 67. The Yugo, as he was known, daringly defected to West… ...