Kevin O'Neill (born 1948) is an American
South Boston
South Boston (colloquially known as Southie) is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay (Boston Harbor), Dorchester Bay. It has under ...
former bar owner and former associate of notorious
Winter Hill Gang
The Winter Hill Gang was a loose confederation of American organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts area. It was generally considered an Irish mob organization, with most gang members and the leadership consisting predominantly of ...
boss
Whitey Bulger.
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 of Somerville, Massachus ...
.
On September 30, 2004, O'Neil was sentenced to a year in prison for racketeering, extortion and money laundering.
[Winter Hill Associate Kevin P. O'Neil Sentenced](_blank)
Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a Federal law enforcement in the United States, United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating illicit Illegal drug trade, drug trafficking a ...
(September 30, 2004)
References
1948 births
Living people
20th-century American criminals
American gangsters of Irish descent
American male criminals
American people convicted of money laundering
American prisoners and detainees
Drinking establishment owners
Gangsters from Boston
People convicted of racketeering
People from Quincy, Massachusetts
People from South Boston
Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government
Winter Hill Gang
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