Jimmy Coonan - The Westies - Full Biography

James Coonan was born in 1947 to a middle class family in the Irish slum of Hell's Kitchen, New York. Both of his parents were accountants. Coonan's father was extorted by Michael "Mickey" Spillane's Irish Mob, which ruled Hell's Kitchen at the time. Hiis mother who was half German had a very open affair with Spillane which destroyed Coonan's fathers reputation. Coonan also had an older brother John Jr. and Eddie. Coonan at the age of eighteen years old once fired a machine gun from the top of a Hell's Kitchen tenement, he was aiming at Mickey Spillane and a number of his top men.


Coonan at the young age of eighteen instead of trying to excel in the legitimate world, decided on a criminal career earning himself a reputation on the other side of the tracks and taking on the Spillane gang in a bid for supremacy, seeing that as a way to exact some revenge for his father. He recruited some of the most violent and ruthless members of the Hell's Kitchen younger criminal element. He was able to recruit his older brother John Coonan, Jr. along with Edward Coonan as well as Edward Sullivan an upper East Side mobster who already had two felonies on his rap sheet, William "Billie" Beattie, Richard "Mugsy" Ritter, William "the Indian" Bokun, John "Johnny" Halo, Richard "Richie" Ryan and Tommy Hess. Later to follow would be Edward "Eddie the Butcher" Cummiskey, Thomas "Tommy" Collins and the most famous member of Coonan's crew Francis "Mickey" Featherstone.

Kenny Shannon agreed to a plea bargain of 20 years in 1990, he was released on parole in February of 2001, Kevin Kelly was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment in 1990, he's scheduled to be released in September of 2011, if he's released on parole, John Halo was acquitted on all charges, Jimmy McElroy was sentenced to 10 to 60 years imprisonment, he was released in November of 1993 after a little over five years in prison, Edna Coonan was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, she was released in August of 1998, Billy Bokun was sentenced to 25 years, he was released in March of 2001, Jackie Coonan died of AIDS before the trial was finished, a disease which he caught from IV Needles, because of his heroin habit, Jimmy was sentenced to 75 years, he is up for release in November of 2036, if he lives to be 89 years of age.

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