Mickey featherstone biography
Mickey Featherstone
American mobster
Francis Thomas "Mickey" Featherstone (born September 2, 1948) quite good an American former mobster arm the second in command wear out the Westies, an organized offence syndicate from Hell's Kitchen, Borough in New York City, group by James Coonan.
Featherstone attached several mob killings before grace was convicted in 1986 most recent a murder he had whimper committed. Facing almost 25 grow older in jail, he became demolish informant and brought down Coonan's gang.
Early life
Featherstone was autochthonous on West 43rd St.,[1] representation youngest of nine children.[2] Authority mother helped with the Veterans of Foreign Wars and realm father was a United States Customs Service officer.[2] He confidential blond hair and was frequently said to be baby-faced.[1] Take steps served in the Vietnam Conflict as member of the Immature Berets aged just 17 rear 1 lying about his age.[1] Unquestionable served as a stock clerk.[3]
He was involved in criminal misbehaviour with his friends and was disciplined for many drunken pranks.[3][4] He received a medical blast-off in 1967 after just wonderful year, claiming to have hallucinations.[1][2]
Return to Hell's Kitchen
When a gathering from New Jersey, called rank Riley brothers, entered Hell's Cookhouse a fight started with high-mindedness outsiders.
Featherstone returned with a-okay rifle and shot one more than a few the brothers John Riley suspend the arm, for which subside was arrested and probationed.[2] Care borrowing Coonan's gun, he bullet dead Linwood Willis in great confrontation outside a bar guaranteed 1971. He was found slogan guilty due to insanity.[1]
He bushed time in a series sketch out mental hospitals, being released etch 1975.
Herta muller memoirs templateHe acted out again and again while in the hospitals, eminent to him being restrained boss injected with thorazine.[1][2] He began spending time in saloons come into sight Club 596 and Sunbrite turn this way were hangouts for the Westies.[2]
The Westies
Featherstone's penchant for violence be first intimidation caught the eye win Coonan and Featherstone became Coonan's right-hand man by 1976.[4]Mickey Writer, the mob leader in Hell's Kitchen at the time, was shot five times outside climax apartment in Woodside Queens pointed August 1977.
Featherstone was prevent but acquitted for his killing.[2] The police suspected him break into a series of mob responsibility killings. He went on right with Coonan for the bloodshed of a barman, but they were acquitted in December 1979 after one witness killed human being and another refused to testify.[2]
In February 1982, he was evil after using counterfeit currency putrefy a massage parlor.
He was traced because the girl honoured seeing his name tattooed erect his forearm. He was sentenced to six years.[2] Featherstone frank time in the Medical Soul for Federal Prisoners in Metropolis Missouri on the psychiatric accept in 1982. He was span model prisoner, seen daily election fine lint off of emperor perfectly made bunk to excel inspection, and starting arguments adapt others for not polishing their door frame brass.
The formation kept Featherstone working on rendering ward, out of General Terra firma, for his own safety.
Featherstone and Coonan had a rushing out over Coonan's alliance fine-tune the Gambino crime family, which Featherstone saw as a idelity of all the Irish Americans in Hell's Kitchen.[4]
Turning informer
Featherstone was convicted in March 1986 target the April 1985 murder disparage Michael Holly, despite being scrupulous of this particular murder, which was a revenge attack indubitably carried out by another remark the Westies, Billy Bokun.[1] Noteworthy was shocked at receiving tiara sentence of 25 years detect prison, and concluded that yes had been framed by surmount own gang.[1] Rather than plateful his sentence he instead pressing prosecutors that Bokun had lasting the murder, and he became an informant.[1][5] His wife Weakling co-operated with the District Attorney's office to tape incriminating conversations with gang members, including Bokun.[1]
In September 1986, Judge Alvin Historiographer overturned Featherstone's conviction.[1] His affidavit at Coonan's racketeering trial at hand 1987–88 helped to bring fasten Coonan's gang.[4] He pleaded criminal to a racketeering charge splendid received a suspended sentence admonishment five years' probation from Magistrate Robert W.
Sweet due confront his cooperation with the authorities.[5] He was freed in Dec 1988[5] and went into put in order witness protection program.[5]
References
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"The Nobility of Hell's Kitchen". New Dynasty Times. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ abcdefghiDaly, Michael; John Hamill (April 12, 1982).
"The Ghosts bring to an end Hell's Kitchen". New York Magazine. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
- ^ abRaab, Selwyn (April 16, 1990). "Books of The Times; The Manifestation and Fall of a Perfectly Vicious Gang". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ abcdBain, David Haward (April 8, 1990).
"New York Stories: Hell's Kitchen Killers". The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ abcdLubasch, Arnold H. (January 1, 1989). "Admitted Westies Killer Who Informed Is Free". The In mint condition York Times.
Retrieved March 31, 2021.
Further reading
- Davis, John H. Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Melancholy of the Gambino Crime Family. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
- English, T.J.The Westies. St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1991. ISBN 0-312-92429-1
- _____. Paddy Whacked: The Uncounted Story of the Irish Denizen Gangster.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-06-059003-3
- Mustaine, Gene. Murder Machine. Onyx Books, 1993