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((Infobox Criminal organization
| name                =The Mullen Gang
| image               =
| caption             =
| founding location   =[[South Boston, Massachusetts]]
| founded by          =Unknown
| years active        =1950s-1970s
| territory           =[[South Boston, Massachusetts]]
| ethnic makeup       =[[Irish-American]]
| membership est      =40-50
| criminal activities =[[Racketeering]], [[armed robbery]], [[auto theft]], [[burglary]], [[extortion]], [[loansharking]], [[illegal gambling]], [[murder]]
| allies              =[[The Winter Hill Gang]]
| rivals              =[[The Killeen Gang]]
))
The '''Mullen Gang''' was an [[Irish-American]] gang operating in [[Boston]].((Not verified in body|date=April 2022))

==Gang members==

'''[[Paulie McGonagle]]''' (died November 1974) was a Boston [[mobster]] and onetime leader of the Mullen Gang, a [[South Boston]] [[street gang]] involved in [[burglary]], [[auto theft]], and [[armed robbery]]. During the war against [[Donald Killeen]] and his brothers, McGonagle successfully led the Mullens in a string of shootings which finally ended with Killeen's murder in 1972. After a truce was arranged with [[Whitey Bulger]] and the remnants of the Killeen organization, McGonagle remained angry about Bulger's accidental murder of his fraternal twin brother, Donald McGonagle. It is believed that this was one of the reasons for his disappearance in November 1974. His body was later excavated from a shallow grave on Boston's Tenean Beach.

'''Tommy King''' (died 1975) was a Boston mobster and member of the Mullens during their gang war against Donald Killeen and his lieutenants [[Billy O'Sullivan (mobster)|Billy O'Sullivan]] and [[James J. Bulger]] during the early 1970s. Following Killeen's murder in 1972, he became an associate of Bulger and the [[Winter Hill Gang]] after his alleged involvement in the death of Paul McGonagle. In 1975, he disappeared following an altercation with Bulger in a Southie watering hole. He was suspected of having been killed by hitman [[John Martorano]].

'''[[Patrick Nee]]''' was born to an [[Irish language|Irish]]-speaking family in [[Rosmuc]], [[Ireland]] in 1944. He was brought to the US by his parents in 1952 and became a member of the Mullen Gang at the age of 14. He fought in several turf battles before joining the [[US Marine Corps]]. He arrived in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] in 1965 and saw combat at [[Phu Bai Combat Base|Phu Bai]]. After his return to [[South Boston]] in October 1966, he rejoined the Mullens and became one of their leaders in the war against the Killeen brothers. Nee arranged the truce that ended the war by arranging a sit-down in [[South End, Boston|Boston's South End]]. After being supplanted by Bulger, he moved to [[Charlestown, Massachusetts]] and switched increasingly to smuggling arms to the [[Provisional IRA]]. He currently resides in South Boston and is the author of the memoir, ''A Criminal and an Irishman''.

==Feud with the Killeen Gang==
The Killeen brothers - [[Donald Killeen|Donald]], Kenneth, George and Edward - were an [[Irish Mob|Irish-American crime family]] which ran the [[bookmaking]] and [[loansharking]] in [[South Boston, Massachusetts]]. They used muscle to make collections, and to make examples of those  who didn’t pay in a timely fashion.

The Mullens, by contrast, were a loosely organized crew of thieves. But being in Southie, it was just a matter of time before they butted heads with the Killeens. The Mullens Gang were mostly thieves who stole from the ships that brought goods into [[Boston Harbor]] and from the warehouses where they were stored. The crew was particularly talented and opportunistic, as likely to steal a truckload of Easter hams as one of televisions. They also had strength in numbers; the [[Boston Police Department]] at one time estimated there were as many as sixty members.

In 1971, Donald Killeen's younger brother, Kenneth, bit off the nose of Mickie Dwyer, a member of the rival Mullen Gang, at The Transit, a local watering hole. [[Paulie McGonagle]], Francis (Buddy) Leonard, Thomas King, and Dennis (Buddy) Roche went to The Transit (the Killeen Gang’s main base of operations) looking to confront the Killeens who had already left the bar. The presence of the Mullens at the Killeens headquarters was viewed as a direct challenge by Donald Killeen. A gangland war soon resulted, leading to a string of slayings throughout Boston and the surrounding suburbs.

Several weeks following the Transit incident, Killeen enforcers [[Billy O'Sullivan (mobster)|Billy O'Sullivan]] and [[James J. Bulger|"Whitey" Bulger]] encountered Mullen member "Buddy" Roache, brother of future Police Commissioner [[Francis "Mickey" Roache]], in a bar on Broadway in South Boston. After a heated argument, Roache was shot and left paralyzed for life.

A short time later, Bulger and O'Sullivan killed [[Donald McGonagle]]. Donald was not a member of the Mullens and was killed by mistake. His brother, Paulie McGonagle vowed revenge and according to [[Patrick Nee]] personally murdered O’Sullivan near his house at Savin Hill at just past midnight on the morning of March 28, 1971.<ref>"Dorchester Father of 6 Chased Down, Fatally Shot Near Home," by John Cullen, The Boston Globe, March 29, 1971.</ref>

The killing of O’Sullivan revitalized the Mullens and the Killeens quickly found themselves outgunned and outmaneuvered.

On May 13, 1972, South Boston mob boss Donald Killeen was shot to death by Mullen gang enforcer Jimmy Mantville outside his home in suburban [[Framingham]], [[Massachusetts]]. The leadership of the Killeen faction then devolved on Bulger, who was in hiding on [[Cape Cod]]. Rather than murdering Bulger as some Mullens, including Paulie McGonagle desired, Patrick Nee arranged for their dispute to be mediated by [[Howie Winter]], the godfather of the Irish-American [[Winter Hill Gang]] of [[Somerville, Massachusetts|Somerville]] and [[Joseph Russo]] of the [[Patriarca crime family]]. After a sit-down at Chandler's restaurant in the [[South End, Boston]], the two gangs joined forces with Winter as overall boss.

By 1973 Bulger was in control of the rackets in South Boston. He began to use his influence to remove opposition, by persuading Winter to sanction the murders of those rivals whom he viewed as having stepped out of line. These included former Mullens Spike O'Toole and Paulie McGonagle, who was murdered by Bulger and buried in a shallow grave in Boston's [[Tenean Beach]]. It is also alleged that Bulger had direct involvement in the murders of Eddie Connors in January 1975 and Mullens Tommy King and Buddy Leonard in November 1975.

==Further reading==
*English, T.J. ''Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster''. New York: [[HarperCollins]], 2005. ((ISBN|0-06-059002-5))
*Lehr, Dick and Gerard O'Neill. ''Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the Boston FBI and a Devil's Deal''. New York: Public Affairs, 2000. ((ISBN|1-891620-40-1))
*Patrick Nee, ''A Criminal and an Irishman'', 2006.

==See also==
*[[Charlestown Mob]]
*[[Winter Hill Gang#Irish Gang War|Boston Irish Gang War]]

==References==
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((Organized crime groups in the United States))

[[Category:Gangs in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Irish-American organized crime groups]]
[[Category:Irish-American culture in Boston]]

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