 He became a close ally of powerful organized crime figures such as Joe Adonis, Albert Anastasia, and Meyer Lansky.Eddie McGrath was forced to abscond from New York after Dunn and Sheridan were executed for the murder of a hiring stevedore named Andy Hintz in 1949, and the investigation of waterfront criminal activity subsequently began to escalate.He left New York in the early 1950s and was living in Miami in 1970, when mobster Hugh Mulligan was reported to be McGrath's "on-premises manager."