A person claiming to be a victim of Jeffrey Epstein has accused Johnny Martorano – a hit man affiliated with the Patriarca family and the Winter Hill Gang who has admitted to killing 20 people and who testified at the trial of James (Whitey) Bulger, among others – of rape.
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It is according to a report which highlighted The allegation, which was emailed to two federal judges and discussed last August by federal prosecutors in New York, revealed the Justice Department's release Friday of approximately 3.5 million Jeffrey Epstein records.
“John Martorano is the man who raped me and took a naked picture of me and said 'let's take a picture for Clarence Thomas,'” the individual wrote. Yes, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is involved in this case. The same victim accused Thomas for sexually assaulting her, when she was a child: “It's also in my CIA file because a few people asked me if I remembered it, but I didn't remember much from my childhood because I was so drugged.” (Read the FBI file here (pdf); The accuser also alleges that numerous other people, including Steve Bannon, committed other heinous crimes against her. We haven't seen any mainstream media coverage on this..)
Martorano was considered the “chief executioner” of the Winter Hill Gangaccording to testimony from the 2008 trial of John Connolly, former FBI agentWhitey Bulger and Stephen (The Rifleman) Flemmi, the long-time protector/manager.
The hitter reached a deal with law enforcement in 1999. He served 12 years and two months in prison after agreeing to testify against Bulgerhis former boss.
Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr wrote a book with Martorano called Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano.
Besides his father Luigi, who led him into organized crime, Martorano's other mentor was Flemmi.. (Martorano also testified against him.)
Martorano's first hit would have been an associate of the Patriarca crime family who was (allegedly) planning to testify in a murder case.
In 2007, he was granted early release and the government provided him with $20,000 in cash.
In 2008, he did a television interview with Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes in which he discussed his feelings about the term “hitman”, saying that hitmen are not the same as serial killers.
MARTORANO: The Hitman (the name of Howie Carr's book about him). That sounds to me like someone getting a paid contract. You couldn't pay me to kill someone.
KROFT: But a lot of people would say you're a serial killer.
MARTORANO: I may be a vigilante but not a serial killer. Serial killers, you must stop them. They will never stop. And they take advantage of it. I never liked that.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, in May 1981, Martorano shot World Jai Alai owner Roger Wheeler in the head. Wheeler had uncovered a skimming operation going on under his own roof and linked to Bulger.
Another hit was covered in a 2013 report published by Phillip Martin: “On a cold January night, Flemmi got into a fight in a South End bar with an African-American. Flemmi lost. He dispatched Martorano, who eventually tracked down Herbert Smith in Dorchester. Martorano, using a .38-caliber snub-nose revolver, shot Smith, but he also killed Smith's passengers: Douglas Barrett, 17, and Elizabeth Dickson, 19. After news of the deaths leaked murders, Martorano was given the new nickname by other gangsters Sickle cell anemia, a sometimes fatal disease that strikes African Americans.
In 1979, Flemmi and Bulger learned of an impending indictment related to a horse race fixing scheme. involving other Winter Hill Gang members. Alerted by his associates, Martorano flew to Florida and escaped the raid.
For the next 16 years, he lived as a fugitive, continually called upon to eliminate blacklisted individuals, including Roger Wheeler and John Callahan. Martorano finally paid the price in 1995 when he was arrested on racketeering charges. In 1999, he chose to get a get-out-of-jail-free card by agreeing to testify.
Martorano expressed remorse for only one of his victims: Elizabeth Dickson, who was 19 when Martorano killed her while caring for Herbert Smith in Dorchester for Flemmi.
Martorano is said to be living a quiet life in Milford County, Massachusetts.
