Title: Top 5 Most Notorious Gangsters from New York City | The Blanch Law Firm
Headings: Top 5 Most Notorious Gangsters from New York City
Top 5 Most Notorious Gangsters from New York City
Content: Tammany Hall refused to exert any influence to help him, and he served 10 years in Sing Sing. He briefly served in the military during WWI at the age of 42, but ultimately returned to his life of crime. He was murdered by his crime partner after they got into a fight over money. James Coonan was born the son of an accountant for famous mobsters. His life of crime started when his father was kidnapped by Michael ‘Mickey’ Spillane who ran the Hell’s Kitchen gang. To restore his honor, Coonan bought an automatic machine gun and fired at Spillane and his gang from the roof of a tenement building. He began a war between the Irish gangs and Spillane’s army. He became friends with ‘Mickey’ Featherstone and he joined his war against Spillane. Together, they joined ranks with the Gambino organization and became an incredibly powerful mob in New York racketeering circles. Eventually, Featherstone and Coonan’s relationship soured, with Featherstone turning state’s witness against Coonan who was arrested for RICO crimes going back decades.