Yaeh Howie didn't testify and I thinks still around he got probation on the last case. The one he was trying get back a loan saying he's with the north end not winter hill. The thing with the pat nee he got off cause the gun wasn't a functional machine gun or some bull shit at the end of the day he's a known killer not as old as the rest of the Bulger crew. Black mass movie review dumb bad screenplay great customs depp real good but it went on alot of bullshit to make the movie more about whitey but forget that Steve flemmi and his brother and crew were killing guys left an right in the 60tys when whitey wasn't even a hickup. And Steve was inclement back to 62 or so.