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Three men have been charged for the fatal 2018 beating of famous mobster James “Whitey” Bulger.
Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 55, and Paul “Pauly” J. DeCologero, 48, and Sean McKinnon, 36, were charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder on Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West VirginiaannouncedThursday.
Geas and DeCologero have also had been charged with aiding and abetting first-degree murder, along with assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
Bulger was 89.
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Geas is still an inmate at USP Hazelton, however, DeCologero is at another federal prison.
McKinnon was previously freed on a supervised release and was arrested Thursday, officials said.
Geas — a mafia killer who “hated rats,” a private investigator who knew himtoldBoston Globe— wassuspectedin the slaying shortly after Bulger’s death, theAssociated Press, theGlobeand theNew York Timesreported.
TheGlobereported that, according to their sources, Geas did not deny involvement.
TheTimesdescribed Bulger’s killing as carefully planned, out of view of security cameras, and committed with a padlock stuffed into a sock.
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“They apparently tuned him up to the point where he was unrecognizable,” one law enforcement official told the paper.
Two inmates, including Geas, were put in solitary confinement after Bulger’s death, theTimesreported, citing prison documents and prison employees. Geas is serving a life sentence for two murders — including the 2003 killing of mafia head Adolpho “Big Al” Bruno in Springfield, Massachusetts, theGlobereported.
Bulger wasconvicted in 2013of 31 federal criminal counts including participating in drug dealing, extortion and murder. He was also convicted of committing or ordering the murders of 11 people during the 1970s and ’80s. He was serving two life sentences at the time of his death.
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For nearly three decades, Bulger served as the head of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang. He fled Massachusetts in 1994 after an FBI agent warned him he was about to be indicted. (Bulger had been an FBI informant.)
Bulger spent more than 15 years on the run, but authorities caught up with him in 2011, apprehending him in Santa Monica, California.
ActorJohnny Deppportrayed Bulger in the 2015 filmBlack Mass.
source: people.com
