Patrick Joseph Nee was born on December 22,1944 and is an Irish-American former mobster and Irish republican sympathizer.
25 Facts About Patrick Nee
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Patrick Nee's father emigrated to the US in 1952 and for a year worked as a laborer.
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Patrick Nee got a house together for his family and sent his wife the passage money a year later.
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Patrick Nee became a member of the Mullen Gang at the age of 14 and fought in several turf battles.
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Not long after coming home from Vietnam, his brother Peter Patrick Nee was gunned down by Kevin Daily outside a bar.
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Months later, Patrick Nee found the man who killed his brother.
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Patrick Nee approached Daily, shooting him several times with a pistol blowing out his right lung, then he kicked him in the face and spat on him.
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Kevin Daily survived the attack and Patrick Nee was arrested for attempted murder.
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Patrick Nee relates, in his memoirs, that his mother would henceforth regret not throwing him off the back of the immigrant ship in 1952.
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Patrick Nee knew the Mullens had courageous, fierce men willing to die for theirs, and he was perceptive.
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Patrick Nee responded by relocating to Charlestown, Massachusetts and concentrating his energy on raising money and smuggling guns to the Provisional IRA.
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Patrick Nee has written that Bulger frequently urged him to cut his links to the IRA, saying that it was too great a risk for not enough profit.
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On July 26,1983, Patrick Nee participated in the homicide of Arthur "Bucky" Barrett with his criminal associates at Patrick Nee's family's house at 799 East Third Street in South Boston.
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The US Attorneys' willingness to ignore Patrick Nee's involvement in Barrett's murder has fueled speculation that Patrick Nee is a protected federal informant.
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Patrick Nee remained an occasional associate throughout the years and masterminded a 1984 attempt to smuggle seven tons of AK-47 assault rifles to the Provisional IRA.
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In January 1984, Patrick Nee made a four-day trip to Europe with Joseph Murray and John McIntyre, meeting in Amsterdam with Michael Browne, the skipper of the Fenit-based fishing vessel the Marita Ann, before briefly visiting County Kerry and Belfast.
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Patrick Nee admitted to bringing McIntyre to the South Boston house where Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and Kevin Weeks were waiting for him.
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On November 30,1984, Patrick Nee picked up McIntyre from a bar and lured him to his house with a case of beer and a promise of a party.
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Patrick Nee fled Boston after being informed by Bulger that federal agents were looking for him.
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Patrick Nee put together a crew of his own and began planning Armored car robberies to raise money for the IRA.
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Patrick Nee was arrested by the FBI during an armored car robbery in Abington, Massachusetts on January 13,1990; he was masked and in possession of another machine gun, which again carried a mandatory life sentence.
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Patrick Nee was sentenced to 37 years in federal prison but released on April 25,2000.
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At that time, Wyshak and Kelly learned from Flemmi that Patrick Nee had participated in another homicide in January 1985.
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Patrick Nee was strangled to death and buried in Nee's cellar, alongside Barrett and McIntyre.
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Wyshak and Kelly learned Patrick Nee had participated in burying another murder victim, Deborah Davis, in 1981.