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Alanna Durkin Richer
Boston — Three men, including a mafia hitman A man has been charged with killing notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger in a West Virginia prison, the Justice Department said Thursday.
The indictments against Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero, and Sean McKinnon came nearly four years after Bulger's murder. General population instead of more protective housing. The man was charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
Bulger was beaten to USP in October 2018 hours after he was transferred from a Florida prison where he was serving a life sentence for 11 counts of murder and other crimes. and died. Prosecutors allege that Geass and De Cologero punched Bulger in the head multiple times, causing him to die.
The Department of Justice also charged Geass and De Cologero with assisting in first-degree murder and causing serious injury with assault. Geass faces a separate charge of murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence, and McKinnon faces a separate charge of lying to federal investigators.
According to law enforcement officials at the time, Geass and De Cologero were identified as suspects shortly after Bulger's death, but the investigation dragged on for years, leading to No charges were filed against them.The family told The Boston Globe that they were held in solitary confinement throughout the investigation.
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Gaes remains in Hazelton prison, while DeCologero is held at another federal prison facility. McKinnon, who prosecutors say had been released under federal oversight when the indictment was served, was arrested Thursday in Florida. Bulger was suing an unnamed employee of the prison system for failing to protect him. He was the third inmate killed in a month.
Bulger, who ran a mostly Irish mob in Boston in the 1970s and his 80s, served as an informant for the FBI and overthrew the Mafia. criticized his gang's chief rival. It's a top priority for the FBI. He later became one of the country's most wanted fugitives.
Prison Workers Union officials told his Associated Press in 2018 that sending Bulger to a troubled federal prison housing other New England gangsters would give him a "death sentence." said it was like putting down
Federal law enforcement officials told the Associated Press that disciplinary issues prompted Bulger's transfer to USP his Hazelton following Bulger's death. Officials requested anonymity because they are not authorized to release details. In February 2018, Bulger threatened an assistant superintendent of a Florida prison, saying, "Your judgment day will come."
Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 after being warned by FBI handler John Connolly Jr. that he would be prosecuted. With a $2 million bounty, Bulger is one of the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" criminals.
After more than 16 years on the run, Bulger was captured in Santa Monica, California when he was 81 years old. There he lived with his longtime girlfriend Katherine Greig in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach.
DeCologero was part of an organized crime gang headed by his uncle on the North Shore, Massachusetts, known as the "DeCologero Crew".
He was found guilty of buying heroin that was used to try to kill his teenage girl, whom his uncle wanted dead. Her heroine didn't kill her, so another man broke her neck, dismembered her, and buried her body in the woods, court records say.
Geass was a close associate of the mafia and acted as an enforcer, but was not an official "made" member as he was Greek, not Italian.
Geass and his brother were involved in several violent crimes, including the 2003 murder of Genovese crime family boss Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for doing so. Prosecutors say another mob ordered Bruno's murder because he was angry with him for talking to the FBI.
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