George Kaufman ran garages where "the boys" hung out--Whitey, Stevie Flemmi, Frank Salemme, etc. He was the go-between to Howie Winter when he was in Leavenworth and stored the Winter Hill's arsenal in his Brookline home. George died in 1996 of natural causes after his indictment with Whitey and Stevie.

The late George Kaufman, armorer to the Winter Hill Gang. He died of natural causes.

George Kaufman, one-time keeper of the Winter Hill arsenal. Whitey thought you could never have too many guns. And you could never move them often enough. And Weeks stuck to that plan even after Whitey went on the lam in 1994. Here, at the trial of Stevie Flemmi’s crooked-cop brother Michael, Weeks went into some detail about the arsenal, and how it was moved around after George Kaufman decided to sell his house in Brookline in 1985.