# Howard T. Winter

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/howard-t-winter/

First-named of twenty-one defendants in the 1979 federal horse-race-fixing prosecution in Boston, United States v. Howard T. Winter et al.; the verdict transcript records the jury finding him guilty on count two, and the First Circuit affirmed his conviction in 1981. The opinions do not call him a member or leader of any group.

The records filed here concern one prosecution, for fixing horse races. None of them uses the name "Winter Hill" for a group: the 1981 direct-appeal opinion mentions the "Winter Hill area" only as a place, and the new-trial opinion records that, at the defendants' request, the trial court barred any reference to "organized crime by that name." Later federal records filed with this archive's New England material call James Bulger and Stephen Flemmi leaders of "the Winter Hill Gang"; they do not say so of Winter, and this page does not either. No role is set.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: United States v. Howard T. Winter et al., case file 79-CR-00042-MA (D. Mass.): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/135841179