Kevin O'Neill (born 1948) is an American
South Boston
South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. South Boston, colloquially known as Southie, has undergone several demographic transformati ...
former bar owner and former associate of notorious
Winter Hill Gang
The Winter Hill Gang is a loose confederation of organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. The gang members and leadership are predominantly Irish-American and Italian-American descent.
The organization itself derives its n ...
boss
Whitey Bulger
James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Bost ...
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Triple O's Lounge
Kevin O'Neill and his two brothers owned and operated Triple O's Lounge in South Boston, which served as the headquarters of Whitey Bulger's gang from the 1970s to the 1990s.
O'Neill used the bar as a front for the gang's money laundering operations. In 1999, he was arrested along with Bulger henchman,
Kevin Weeks
Kevin Weeks (born March 21, 1956) is an American former mobster and longtime friend and mob lieutenant to Whitey Bulger, the infamous boss of the Winter Hill Gang, a crime family based in the Winter Hill neighborhood in Somerville, Massachuset ...
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American gangsters of Irish descent
American gangsters
Winter Hill Gang
People from South Boston
Gangsters from Boston
1948 births
Living people
Drinking establishment owners
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