a criminal was my goal in life. It just seemed natural - there was a lot of money to be had if you spent the time planning the jobs right. The more I hung with the Mullens, the easier it was to go out on jobs. I'd simply ask if they needed another guy. Upon reaching adulthood, Nee enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. Criminal career Not long after coming home from Vietnam, his brother Peter Nee was gunned down by Kevin Daily outside a bar. Months later, Nee found the man who killed his brother. He waited outside his house late one night. He approached Daily, shooting him several times with a pistol blowing out his right lung, then he kicked him in the face and spat on him. Kevin Daily survived the attack and Patrick Nee was arrested for attempted murder. Upon seeing Patrick Nee in court, he claimed Nee was not the man who shot him. Nee was released. After his return to South Boston, in October 1966, he rejoined the Mullen gang and became one of its leaders in a turf war with the Killeen Gang. He relates, in his memoirs, that his mother would henceforth regret not throwing him off the back of the immigrant ship in 1952. In 1972, South Boston gang boss Donald Killeen was shot to death by Mullen gang enforcers Jimmy Mantville and Tommy King, outside of his home, in suburban Framingham, Massachusetts. The leadership of the Killeen faction then devolved to James J. "Whitey" Bulger. However, Bulger and the Killeens fled the city after the murder of their boss, fearing they would be next. Instead of killing Bulger, however, Nee arranged for the dispute to be mediated by Howie Winter and Patriarca crime family captain Joseph Russo. After a meeting at Chandler's restaurant, in the South End, Boston, the two gangs joined forces, with Winter as the overall boss. According to Nee, Nobody talked fault, although at first it was tense while we ran down the 'who killed who' list. Whitey was a defeated warrior looking to keep as much honor as possible. He knew the Mullens had courageous, fierce men willing to die for theirs, and he was perceptive. Deep down, Whitey knew that he couldn't take over for the Killeens without cutting the Mullens in on their bookmaking and loansharking. Tommy [King] and I felt victorious, but we