Two witnesses saw what had happened and also got the license plate and reported it to one of their uncles who just happened to be connected. When the victim put up a fight, Maloney hit him over the head a couple times with his gun before shoving him into the back seat and taking off. On a bitter cold afternoon in December 1972, Eddie Maloney stuck a gun in Junior’s stomach and ordered him into a car. The next kidnapping wouldnt go to plan, the target was to be a Gambino Family loanshark, Jerry Capeci who wrote some books on John Gotti names this person as “Junior”. Their first kidnapping earned them $150,000, it was so successful that they carried out a further 2 – 3 kidnappings in the space of two months. Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. The gang would split into two groups, one who kidnapped the target and the other group would collect the ransom before the target was let go. Brigham and Women's/Mass General Health Care Center at Foxborough. Allegedly two brothers who were members of the Gambino Family would supply the addresses of mobsters for 10% of the ransom money. The gang’s method was to kidnap mobster’s and hold them for ransom. He joined up with, Eddie Maloney, Warren Schurman and Thomas Genovese among others. McBratney had been in trouble during his teenage years and eventually found his way into prison, convicted of armed robbery, where he would meet a lifelong friend and fellow Irishman “Crazy” Eddie Maloney.Īfter his release from prison, James McBratney continued his life of crime, gun-running, armed robbery and kidnapping. James McBratney was born in 1941 to Irish parents who had emigrated to the U.S.
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