BOSTON (AP) — Three men, including a Mafia hitman, have been charged in the killing of notorious Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger in a West Virginia prison.
The charges against Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero & Sean McKinnon come nearly 4 years after Bulger’s killing, which raised questions about why the known “snitch” was placed in the general population. The men were charged with conspiracy to commit first degree murder.
Bulger was beaten to death at USP Hazelton in October 2018 hours after he was transferred from a prison in Florida, where he had been serving a life sentence for 11 murders & other crimes. Prosecutors allege Geas & DeCologero struck Bulger in the head multiple times.
The Justice Department has also charged Geas & DeCologero with aiding & abetting first degree murder, along with assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Geas faces a separate charge for murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence & McKinnon is charged separately with making false statements to a federal agent.
Bulger, who ran the largely Irish mob in Boston in the 1970s & ’80s, served as an FBI informant who ratted on his gang’s main rivals, the Mafia.
Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 after his FBI handler, John Connolly Jr., warned him he was about to be indicted. With a $2 million reward on his head, Bulger became one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” criminals.
After more than 16 years on the run, Bulger was captured Santa Monica, with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig.
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