Mob Hitman (Who Flipped) Accused Of Rape In The Epstein Files

A person claiming to be a victim of Jeffrey Epstein has accused former mob associate Johnny Martorano—a Patriarca family- and Winter Hill Gang-affiliated hitman who has admitted to killing 20 people and who testified in the trial of James Whitey Bulger, among others—of rape.

Johnny Martorano.

This is according to a report that highlighted the allegation, which had been sent by email to two federal judges and was discussed last August by Federal prosecutors in New York, the Justice Department’s Friday release of around 3.5 million Jeffrey Epstein files has revealed.

“John Martorano was the man who raped me and took a picture of me naked and said ‘let's take a picture for Clarence Thomas,’” the individual wrote. (Yes, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is also caught up in this. The victim also accused Thomas of sexually assaulting her, when she was a child. "This is also in my CIA file because a few people have asked me if I remembered, but I couldn't remember much of my childhood because I was drugged so much," the email read.)

Martorano was the killer who killers called on to get the job done, according to testimony from the 2008 trial of former FBI agent John Connolly, Whitey Bulger and Stephen (The Rifleman) Flemmi’s long-time protector/handler. 

Martorano was considered the "chief executioner" for the Winter Hill Gang.

Martorano cut a deal with law enforcement officials in 1999.  He served 12 years and two months in prison after agreeing to testify against Bulger, his former boss. 

Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr wrote a book with Martorano called Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano.

Aside from his father Luigi, who brought him into organized crime, Martorano’s other mob mentor was Flemmi. (Martorano also testified against him.)  

Martorano’s first hit was reportedly on 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 disgust about the term “hit man.”  

MARTORANO: The hitman.  That sounds like to me somebody getting a paid contract.  You couldn’t pay me to kill anybody. 

KROFT: But a lot of people would say you’re a serial killer.

MARTORANO: I might be a vigilante but not a serial killer. Serial killers you have to stop them. They’ll never stop.  And they enjoy it.  I never enjoyed it.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma in May 1981, Martorano shot World Jai Alai owner, Roger Wheeler, in the head. Wheeler had discovered a skimming operation taking place under his own roof connected to Bulger. 

Another hit was covered in a 2013 published report by Phillip Martin: “On a cold night in January, Flemmi got into a bar fight in the South End with an African American.  Flemmi lost.  He dispatched Martorano, who eventually tracked Herbert Smith to Dorchester. Martorano using a 38-caliber snub nose revolver put a bullet in Smith, but he also killed Smith’s passengers:  17 year old Douglas Barrett and 19 year old Elizabeth Dickson. After news of the murders leaked out, Martorano was a given a new nickname by fellow gangsters.  Sickle Cell Anemia, a sometimes fatal disease that strikes African Americans.”

In 1979, Flemmi and Bulger got wind of an impending indictment related to a horse race-fixing scheme involving other Winter Hill Gang members. Alerted by associates, Martorano took off for Florida, evading the impending legal troubles.

Over the next 16 years, he lived as a fugitive, continually called upon to participate in criminal activities such as the murders of Roger Wheeler and John Callahan. However, Martorano’s life on the run came to an end in 1995 when he was apprehended on a racketeering indictment. Martorano opted for a significant legal pivot and, in 1999, agreed to a deal.

Martorano reportedly has expressed remorse for only one of his victims: Elizabeth Dickson, who was 19.

Martorano reportedly has been leading a quiet life in Milford County, Massachusetts.