3 inmates who allegedly killed infamous Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in jail in 2018 are set to seem in court docket on Monday for a plea listening to and sentencing.
The listening to for Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and Sean McKinnon might be held in federal court docket in northern West Virginia. Plea offers for the 3 had been published ultimate month.
Bulger, 89, was once crushed to loss of life in his cellular hours after being transferred to a bothered West Virginia jail six years in the past.
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Fotios “Freddy” Geas and James “Whitey” Bulger. (Related Press)
Geas and DeCologero are accused of again and again hitting Bulger within the head as McKinnon was once a lookout.
DeCologero advised an inmate witness that Bulger was once a “snitch” and published a plan to kill him once he entered their unit. DeCologero additionally advised an inmate that he and Geas used a belt with a lock connected to it to overcome Bulger to loss of life.
Geas and DeCologero had been charged with homicide whilst all 3 males had been charged with conspiracy to dedicate first-degree homicide, which carries as much as a lifestyles sentence. McKinnon was once additionally charged with making false statements to a federal agent.
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James “Whitey” Bulger is escorted from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to a ready automobile at an airport in Plymouth, Mass., after attending hearings in federal court docket in Boston. (Stuart Cahill/The Boston Bring in by means of AP, Document)
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Ultimate yr, the Justice Division stated it will no longer search the loss of life penalty for Geas and DeCologero.
Bulger, who ran the in large part Irish mob in Boston within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, turned into one of the most country’s maximum sought after fugitives after fleeing the town in 1994. He was once sooner or later captured at age 81 after greater than 16 years at the run.
He was once convicted in 2013 for 11 killings and dozens of alternative gangland crimes.
The Related Press contributed to this document.
