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The New Westies in the 1990s and a murder??
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Anyone wanna comment on this??
Any opinions or comments regarding these articles about things you don’t really hear at about regarding the Westies in the 90s post Coonan and post Bosko, who after he left the country was running strip clubs and casinos in Serbia
Any opinions or comments regarding these articles about things you don’t really hear at about regarding the Westies in the 90s post Coonan and post Bosko, who after he left the country was running strip clubs and casinos in Serbia
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Would love to but i aint goin through the paywall
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A daring undercover cop who penetrated the mob’s top echelon at the Javits Convention Center is telling his story for the first time providing an explosive look at how crime and corruption fills every corner of the glass palace on the Hudson.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, Detective James Mullan Jr., a decorated 15-year veteran of the police force who spent three years on this secret operation, said the Javits Center “was where all the big money was being made.
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The mob, he said, “was running scams on everything.
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He described:
How mob-tied union officials put membership in the union up for sale.
To earn the privilege of working in Local 829 of the Exposition Employes, the allegedly mobbed-up union that controls 500 high-paying jobs at the center, a worker would have to purchase a “membership book” at rates ranging from $13,000 to $22,000 from top officials of Local 829.
Once in the union, they could make up to $100,000 a year working at the center.
How union bosses placed ghost employes on the payroll forcing exhibition companies to pay up to 20 workers who don’t show up for the job.
The massive featherbedding of Javits work rosters orchestrated by Expo union officials adds up to more than $1 million annually and ends in the pockets of union leaders and Genovese crime family bosses.
And it helps make Javits the most expensive exhibition hall in the nation, driving business from the city.
How Javits employes devised bogus slip-and-fall cases, using corrupt lawyers to sue the center.
How mob associates who directed corrupt operations at the center also sold guns and drugs, including Uzis and 9-mm. weapons, at West Side bars. And how they ran loan-sharking operations that preyed on Javits employes.
The Javits Center is under fire from every direction. Gov. Pataki has demanded that the board of directors step down, the state Senate tomorrow will begin hearings on corruption, and the center’s unions are being probed by federal and local authorities.
Mullan’s undercover exploits are expected to result in up to 40 indictments by the Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office.
Now 38, Mullan was a veteran of mob undercover operations when he began his mission in November 1991.
His original target was the New Westies, the remnants of a murderous gang believed to have been crippled by convictions of virtually all its leaders in the 1980s.
Calling himself “J.C
and posing as a drug-using hustler, Mullan used his Queens-Irish accent, boyish looks and knowledge of underworld scams to charm the crooks who fell into his path.
“I walked into a bar in Hell’s Kitchen looking to buy grass. I scored a nickel bag off a little guy, he introduced me to someone else, and it kept going,” Mullan said.
“The big break came when I met James McCann Jr.,” he said. McCann, along with his father, James Sr., had risen to the top of the New Westies, according to Mullan, and ran loansharking out of another West Side bar.
When Mullan expressed an interest in buying guns, the McCanns helped him find sellers. Among them was Jimmy McElroy Jr., the son of a former Westies enforcer serving 60 years for racketeering, murder and kidnaping.
“Jimmy was a main source for guns,” Mullan said.
“I bought tons of guns. Nine millimeters, Uzis .
38s.
”
Starting in 1993, McCann Sr. asked Mullan to serve as his driver a coveted mob position.
It was then that McCann first told Mullan about the Javits Center scams that union officials tied to the Westies and the Genovese crime family routinely salted payrolls of center exhibitors with phantom workers.
Membership in the Expos union is so prized that mobsters put a price on it. Although the cost can range up to $22,000 per union “book,” Mullan was allowed to buy one for a bargain $13,000.
“James McCann Sr. brought me to the Javits Center and introduced me to [Expos shop steward Steven] (Beansie) Dellacava,” Mullan said. “He said, ‘Put this guy to work.
Everybody at Javits thought I was a big shot because I was chauffeuring McCann around,” Mullan said.
Mullan also got special treatment on the job because of his association with the hoods who ran the daily shape when workers are given assignments according to seniority. Mullan was allowed to leap over others with far more seniority.
Besides the featherbedding, he said, Dellacava and union official Paul Coscia took bonuses from exhibition companies and a cut from Christmas and vacation checks.
Mullan said the two union officials regularly placed up to half-dozen no-show names on the payroll of small jobs, and up to 20 for big exhibitions such as auto or boat shows.
“It was hundreds of thousands of dollars. Paulie [Coscia] was good for about $150,000 a year, Beansie got double that,” Mullan said. But the biggest portion of every deal was raked off for the mob bosses in the Westies and the Genovese crime family.
According to Mullan, Coscia served as the liaison to Genovese “street boss” Liborio (Barney) Bellomo. “Beansie was out on parole, so he couldn’t risk being seen talking to anyone, so Paulie does the communicating,” said Mullan.
Javits also offered ripe pickings for mob thieves.
“An Expo worker named Ned, a relative of McCann’s, was in charge of security, said Mullan. “The exhibitors’ merchandise is all supposed to be locked up, but the same guys had access to it.
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Mullan said that when a well-connected worker was once caught stealing motorboat engines a boat show, he was kicked out of the center only to be sneaked back in under another worker’s name.
Mullan encountered another scam when he injured his hand in a nonwork-related incident. McCann directed him to Coscia, who told him to see an Expo workers foreman named Frank on the loading dock.
“Frank set up a piece of lumber on the stairs and got some people around as witnesses. Everybody was laughing, including a Javits security guard,” Mullan said.
He was then instructed to seek out a corrupt Brooklyn lawyer. “They told me about a bunch of cases they had done, all phonies,” Mullan said.
A lawsuit seeking $1 million damages was filed. But the mobsters hoped for a $100,000 settlement, Mullan said. “They said the money would go one third to Beansie, one third to Paulie and one third to me,” Mullan said.
Mullan later was forced to drop the suit because the DA’s office didn’t want him to perjure himself, he said. “They started getting suspicious of me then,” the detective said.
Their suspicions were further aroused, Mullan said, when the DA’s insisted he target a corrupt cop seeking to buy guns. Finally, Mullan said, he ran into friends while hanging with gangster pals. Inadvertently, the friends gave him up, Mullan said. He was pulled from the operation.
Originally Published: March 15, 1995 at 12:00 AM EST
In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, Detective James Mullan Jr., a decorated 15-year veteran of the police force who spent three years on this secret operation, said the Javits Center “was where all the big money was being made.
”
The mob, he said, “was running scams on everything.
”
He described:
How mob-tied union officials put membership in the union up for sale.
To earn the privilege of working in Local 829 of the Exposition Employes, the allegedly mobbed-up union that controls 500 high-paying jobs at the center, a worker would have to purchase a “membership book” at rates ranging from $13,000 to $22,000 from top officials of Local 829.
Once in the union, they could make up to $100,000 a year working at the center.
How union bosses placed ghost employes on the payroll forcing exhibition companies to pay up to 20 workers who don’t show up for the job.
The massive featherbedding of Javits work rosters orchestrated by Expo union officials adds up to more than $1 million annually and ends in the pockets of union leaders and Genovese crime family bosses.
And it helps make Javits the most expensive exhibition hall in the nation, driving business from the city.
How Javits employes devised bogus slip-and-fall cases, using corrupt lawyers to sue the center.
How mob associates who directed corrupt operations at the center also sold guns and drugs, including Uzis and 9-mm. weapons, at West Side bars. And how they ran loan-sharking operations that preyed on Javits employes.
The Javits Center is under fire from every direction. Gov. Pataki has demanded that the board of directors step down, the state Senate tomorrow will begin hearings on corruption, and the center’s unions are being probed by federal and local authorities.
Mullan’s undercover exploits are expected to result in up to 40 indictments by the Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office.
Now 38, Mullan was a veteran of mob undercover operations when he began his mission in November 1991.
His original target was the New Westies, the remnants of a murderous gang believed to have been crippled by convictions of virtually all its leaders in the 1980s.
Calling himself “J.C
and posing as a drug-using hustler, Mullan used his Queens-Irish accent, boyish looks and knowledge of underworld scams to charm the crooks who fell into his path.
“I walked into a bar in Hell’s Kitchen looking to buy grass. I scored a nickel bag off a little guy, he introduced me to someone else, and it kept going,” Mullan said.
“The big break came when I met James McCann Jr.,” he said. McCann, along with his father, James Sr., had risen to the top of the New Westies, according to Mullan, and ran loansharking out of another West Side bar.
When Mullan expressed an interest in buying guns, the McCanns helped him find sellers. Among them was Jimmy McElroy Jr., the son of a former Westies enforcer serving 60 years for racketeering, murder and kidnaping.
“Jimmy was a main source for guns,” Mullan said.
“I bought tons of guns. Nine millimeters, Uzis .
38s.
”
Starting in 1993, McCann Sr. asked Mullan to serve as his driver a coveted mob position.
It was then that McCann first told Mullan about the Javits Center scams that union officials tied to the Westies and the Genovese crime family routinely salted payrolls of center exhibitors with phantom workers.
Membership in the Expos union is so prized that mobsters put a price on it. Although the cost can range up to $22,000 per union “book,” Mullan was allowed to buy one for a bargain $13,000.
“James McCann Sr. brought me to the Javits Center and introduced me to [Expos shop steward Steven] (Beansie) Dellacava,” Mullan said. “He said, ‘Put this guy to work.
Everybody at Javits thought I was a big shot because I was chauffeuring McCann around,” Mullan said.
Mullan also got special treatment on the job because of his association with the hoods who ran the daily shape when workers are given assignments according to seniority. Mullan was allowed to leap over others with far more seniority.
Besides the featherbedding, he said, Dellacava and union official Paul Coscia took bonuses from exhibition companies and a cut from Christmas and vacation checks.
Mullan said the two union officials regularly placed up to half-dozen no-show names on the payroll of small jobs, and up to 20 for big exhibitions such as auto or boat shows.
“It was hundreds of thousands of dollars. Paulie [Coscia] was good for about $150,000 a year, Beansie got double that,” Mullan said. But the biggest portion of every deal was raked off for the mob bosses in the Westies and the Genovese crime family.
According to Mullan, Coscia served as the liaison to Genovese “street boss” Liborio (Barney) Bellomo. “Beansie was out on parole, so he couldn’t risk being seen talking to anyone, so Paulie does the communicating,” said Mullan.
Javits also offered ripe pickings for mob thieves.
“An Expo worker named Ned, a relative of McCann’s, was in charge of security, said Mullan. “The exhibitors’ merchandise is all supposed to be locked up, but the same guys had access to it.
”
Mullan said that when a well-connected worker was once caught stealing motorboat engines a boat show, he was kicked out of the center only to be sneaked back in under another worker’s name.
Mullan encountered another scam when he injured his hand in a nonwork-related incident. McCann directed him to Coscia, who told him to see an Expo workers foreman named Frank on the loading dock.
“Frank set up a piece of lumber on the stairs and got some people around as witnesses. Everybody was laughing, including a Javits security guard,” Mullan said.
He was then instructed to seek out a corrupt Brooklyn lawyer. “They told me about a bunch of cases they had done, all phonies,” Mullan said.
A lawsuit seeking $1 million damages was filed. But the mobsters hoped for a $100,000 settlement, Mullan said. “They said the money would go one third to Beansie, one third to Paulie and one third to me,” Mullan said.
Mullan later was forced to drop the suit because the DA’s office didn’t want him to perjure himself, he said. “They started getting suspicious of me then,” the detective said.
Their suspicions were further aroused, Mullan said, when the DA’s insisted he target a corrupt cop seeking to buy guns. Finally, Mullan said, he ran into friends while hanging with gangster pals. Inadvertently, the friends gave him up, Mullan said. He was pulled from the operation.
Originally Published: March 15, 1995 at 12:00 AM EST
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A 51-year-old convicted killer has admitted to another murder — the 1986 Staten Island shooting death of his girlfriend, authorities said yesterday.
John Moe — already doing life for rubbing out a Jacob Javits Center official — was pulled from an upstate federal prison Monday and charged with killing Janet Martinez.
The 20-year-old’s body was found in April 1987 in a drainage ditch in a remote section of Staten Island’s Charlestown section.
Authorities said Moe in December 1986 drove Martinez from her Bronx home to Staten Island, where he shot her twice because she wanted to break up with him.
“I was with Janet and I shot her in the head twice,” Moe said during a recent police interrogation, according to the criminal complaint filed against him.
Moe had been interviewed in the wake of Martinez’s murder but did not make any admissions then, authorities said.
Moe pleaded guilty at his arraignment yesterday on murder charges.
Authorities said Moe was sentenced in 1993 to life in prison following his conviction in the 1991 murder of Roger Aimi, an electrical foreman at the Jacob Javits Center.
Moe had been hired by the infamous Westies gang, which for years dominated Manhattan’s West Side, authorities said.
Martinez attended City College and was a student teacher at Mabel Dean Bacon Vocational HS in Manhattan.
John Moe — already doing life for rubbing out a Jacob Javits Center official — was pulled from an upstate federal prison Monday and charged with killing Janet Martinez.
The 20-year-old’s body was found in April 1987 in a drainage ditch in a remote section of Staten Island’s Charlestown section.
Authorities said Moe in December 1986 drove Martinez from her Bronx home to Staten Island, where he shot her twice because she wanted to break up with him.
“I was with Janet and I shot her in the head twice,” Moe said during a recent police interrogation, according to the criminal complaint filed against him.
Moe had been interviewed in the wake of Martinez’s murder but did not make any admissions then, authorities said.
Moe pleaded guilty at his arraignment yesterday on murder charges.
Authorities said Moe was sentenced in 1993 to life in prison following his conviction in the 1991 murder of Roger Aimi, an electrical foreman at the Jacob Javits Center.
Moe had been hired by the infamous Westies gang, which for years dominated Manhattan’s West Side, authorities said.
Martinez attended City College and was a student teacher at Mabel Dean Bacon Vocational HS in Manhattan.
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Very interesting. Article claims James McCann Jr and James McCann Sr were the bosses of the Westies in the early 90s. Also talked about Jame McElroy Jr. Were the McCanns mentioned in TJ English’s book? I’m not recalling.
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Patrickgold wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:33 pm Very interesting. Article claims James McCann Jr and James McCann Sr were the bosses of the Westies in the early 90s. Also talked about Jame McElroy Jr. Were the McCanns mentioned in TJ English’s book? I’m not recalling.
No he wasn’t mentioned and I don’t believe Buddy Leahe or James Cahill who were also members of the Westies. Most of the crew members and operation were talked about in TJ English but but not the entire crew or rackets in there totality especially as it related to the construction industry and the Jacob Javitz Center. Shit even the guy who succeeded Coonan before McCann, Bosko Radonavick was barely mentioned, though Bosko was well known and meeting regularly with John Gotti
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Thanks for the info. John and Brian Bentley are also Westies that were never mentioned in his book.7digits wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 11:42 pmPatrickgold wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:33 pm Very interesting. Article claims James McCann Jr and James McCann Sr were the bosses of the Westies in the early 90s. Also talked about Jame McElroy Jr. Were the McCanns mentioned in TJ English’s book? I’m not recalling.
No he wasn’t mentioned and I don’t believe Buddy Leahe or James Cahill who were also members of the Westies. Most of the crew members and operation were talked about in TJ English but but not the entire crew or rackets in there totality especially as it related to the construction industry and the Jacob Javitz Center. Shit even the guy who succeeded Coonan before McCann, Bosko Radonavick was barely mentioned, though Bosko was well known and meeting regularly with John Gotti
Are the McCanns still alive?
Radonavick always interested me. Very little inside details about him actually running the Westies. Are there federal documents stating he was actual boss or only newspaper articles?
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McCann Jnr died in 2019. Here's something on Instagram about him....Patrickgold wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:01 amThanks for the info. John and Brian Bentley are also Westies that were never mentioned in his book.7digits wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 11:42 pmPatrickgold wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:33 pm Very interesting. Article claims James McCann Jr and James McCann Sr were the bosses of the Westies in the early 90s. Also talked about Jame McElroy Jr. Were the McCanns mentioned in TJ English’s book? I’m not recalling.
No he wasn’t mentioned and I don’t believe Buddy Leahe or James Cahill who were also members of the Westies. Most of the crew members and operation were talked about in TJ English but but not the entire crew or rackets in there totality especially as it related to the construction industry and the Jacob Javitz Center. Shit even the guy who succeeded Coonan before McCann, Bosko Radonavick was barely mentioned, though Bosko was well known and meeting regularly with John Gotti
Are the McCanns still alive?
Radonavick always interested me. Very little inside details about him actually running the Westies. Are there federal documents stating he was actual boss or only newspaper articles?
https://www.instagram.com/ny_mobsters_f ... R4aSbihIh/
"A Lucchese family associate, son of James J McCann SR, father of James McCann the 3rd. Canarsie tough guy and know as “gentleman Jim” for his good looks and sharp attire, customs suits and his cars.
He gained his reputation for being great with his hands. Nicolas Corozzo, Gambino family captain put the word out during a dispute to his crew to watch out for Jimmy that he always carried a 22 on him at all times, and wasn’t afraid to use it, later on Corozzo and McCann became friendly. He was also involved in the car bomb wars with the Gambinos back in the 80s in Canarsie, attributed to the Gaspipe Casso and John Gotti disputes.
Him and his father were known for having control in the unions in NYC. He was close to Amuso and “Gaspipe” Casso, he was absolutely one the toughest Lucchese family associates in the streets of Canarsie"
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Are you sure that is him? It says he was a Lucchese associate and Genovese? Thought the Javitts center was Genovese territory. Also, it says he’s from Brooklyn and not Hells Kitchen
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You might be right. This guy's dad, McCann Snr was a top Lucchese associate, very close to Amuso. I guess it's possible that these McCanns may have gotten involved with the Westies at some point but as there is no evidence it's most likely a coincidence that they had the same names. Unless anybody else knows other wise.....
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Patrickgold wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:01 amThanks for the info. John and Brian Bentley are also Westies that were never mentioned in his book.7digits wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 11:42 pmPatrickgold wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:33 pm Very interesting. Article claims James McCann Jr and James McCann Sr were the bosses of the Westies in the early 90s. Also talked about Jame McElroy Jr. Were the McCanns mentioned in TJ English’s book? I’m not recalling.
No he wasn’t mentioned and I don’t believe Buddy Leahe or James Cahill who were also members of the Westies. Most of the crew members and operation were talked about in TJ English but but not the entire crew or rackets in there totality especially as it related to the construction industry and the Jacob Javitz Center. Shit even the guy who succeeded Coonan before McCann, Bosko Radonavick was barely mentioned, though Bosko was well known and meeting regularly with John Gotti
Are the McCanns still alive?
Radonavick always interested me. Very little inside details about him actually running the Westies. Are there federal documents stating he was actual boss or only newspaper articles?
People that were around bosko and also Gravano all stated he was the boss of the Westies also Mickey Scars did as well. Scars said all these guys were Westies as were people like Mickey Bowers and others who were in the ILA and don’t get talked about much but were major Irish organized crime figures who also worked w the mob in the 90s during his heyday.
I can’t recommend Scars Patreon enough, the recent Joey Merlino video on YouTube from him has been on patron for months though I don’t agree with what he said cause as John Pennisi has said the life has evolved over the last 23 years and bosses aren’t murdered anymore they are shelved and New York has always had to approve of the boss of Philly and give there moral support to him
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Interesting. Thanks for explaining. Do we have a list of Westies that are still alive?7digits wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:03 pmPatrickgold wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:01 amThanks for the info. John and Brian Bentley are also Westies that were never mentioned in his book.7digits wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 11:42 pmPatrickgold wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:33 pm Very interesting. Article claims James McCann Jr and James McCann Sr were the bosses of the Westies in the early 90s. Also talked about Jame McElroy Jr. Were the McCanns mentioned in TJ English’s book? I’m not recalling.
No he wasn’t mentioned and I don’t believe Buddy Leahe or James Cahill who were also members of the Westies. Most of the crew members and operation were talked about in TJ English but but not the entire crew or rackets in there totality especially as it related to the construction industry and the Jacob Javitz Center. Shit even the guy who succeeded Coonan before McCann, Bosko Radonavick was barely mentioned, though Bosko was well known and meeting regularly with John Gotti
Are the McCanns still alive?
Radonavick always interested me. Very little inside details about him actually running the Westies. Are there federal documents stating he was actual boss or only newspaper articles?
People that were around bosko and also Gravano all stated he was the boss of the Westies also Mickey Scars did as well. Scars said all these guys were Westies as were people like Mickey Bowers and others who were in the ILA and don’t get talked about much but were major Irish organized crime figures who also worked w the mob in the 90s during his heyday.
I can’t recommend Scars Patreon enough, the recent Joey Merlino video on YouTube from him has been on patron for months though I don’t agree with what he said cause as John Pennisi has said the life has evolved over the last 23 years and bosses aren’t murdered anymore they are shelved and New York has always had to approve of the boss of Philly and give there moral support to him
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Just found this on the internet. It’s a podcast where Billy Beattie is interviewed. Haven’t finished it yet but it’s very interesting. Beattie died shortly after. The Westies podcast is six parts
https://laterdays.libsyn.com/the-westie ... arly-years
https://laterdays.libsyn.com/the-westie ... arly-years