Correct sir. Coonan is currently incarcerated after being sentenced to 75 years in the late 1980s. In 1988, he and his wife went into a witness protection program. Several Westies owed money to Stein and were looking to escape these debts. Coonan's criminal career began to take of at the age of eighteen, when he swore to seek revenge against Mickey Spillane, the boss of Hell's Kitchen because Spillane had kidnapped and pistol whipped Coonan's father who was an accountant not involved in criminal activity. [4][5], In 1979, Coonan was tried and acquitted for the murder of Harold Whitehead, but convicted on weapons charges and sentenced to four years in federal prison. Coonan learned how to dismember murder victims from Edward Cummiskey, a fellow Westies member, prison-trained as a butcher, and he disposed of the mangled remains in the swift currents of the East River. He was released from the mental hospital 4 years later. Stein was lured to the 596 Club bar where he was shot to death. This was a method of disposing of his victims that Coonan would repeat many times. Jimmy Coonan’s criminal career started in his teens. James Coonan was born in 1946 in the Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan area of New York City. The information he and his wife Sissy provided, and the recordings they helped make, achieved this aim. He got a sweet deal in a pea bargain and was released in late 1971 and continued his war on Mickey Spillane. Coonan is very well respected. Coonan forged a strong alliance with the Gambino crime family in the late 70s, and Jimmy Coonan and his gang worked for the Gambino Crime Family as a large hit squad and enforcement squad, for almost a decade. He put the hands in bags in a freezer with the intention of using them to put those fingerprints on a gun he would use later. Required fields are marked *. Those who chose Coonan were immune from these harsh activities because Spillane’s gang was on the run and unable to retaliate. He and his gang of young Irish hoods began kidnapping, beating, and murdering Spillane loyalists. A Westie named John Bokun went to Holly’s bar and shot him. Coonan used these gang members to lure Stein to the 596 Club bar where he was shot to death. He testified against Jimmy Coonan and other gang members. Coonan's whole purpose was to restore his father's honor. Coonan joined with the Italians because Spillane had refused the Mafia’s efforts to control criminal activities in and around the Jacob Javit’s convention center. During this incarceration Featherstone was injected with Thorazine. Post Nov 12, 2008 #4 2008-11-12T17:43. Since his marriage a year ago, in 1974, he'd moved out of the neighborhood to a modest, two-story house just across the river in Keansburg, New Jersey, a quiet, lily-white middle-class suburb. A number of the Westies owed large amounts of money to Stein and were looking to escape these obligations. Morgethau said the gang began as gamblers and loansharks but have committed 28 murders, five of which have been solved. Jimmy Coonan is currently being held at Lewisburg Federal Penetentiary, he is 59 years old and is Inmate Number 13874-054 his projected release date is November 6th, 2036, he'll be like 89 or some shit if he lives that long. He instead told prosecutors that Bokun had committed the murder, and he became an informant. Coonan also hoped to pocket Stein's 'Black Book' that contained all of the information on his loanshark operation and collect on the debts for himself. [9][a], "The last few years had been good to Jimmy Coonan. [6][7] Coonan was first eligible for parole in 1998. Featherstone was convicted in early 1986 and began cooperating with the government in hopes of getting the murder conviction overturned. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here. He passed out and when he awoke, he found they had given him a circumcision. In 1980, the Secret Service put Featherstone in jail for using fake currency at a massage parlor. The gang then tipped the cops that Featherstone killed Holly. The policeman shot and killed John Bokun and the Westies blamed Holly for the death. West Bureau. After Coonan took over as boss of the Westies, he had Stein murdered to gain control of his gambling and loansharking customers. Holly was murdered in broad daylight on West 35th Street in April, 1985 by Westie member, and John's brother Billy Bokun, while wearing a wig and mustache to impersonate Featherstone, and renting a car identical to the one Featherstone was driving. This dismembering method of disposing of his victims was used by Coonan many times.
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