A former mafia hitman has been sentenced for the jail killing of crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger.
Fotios “Freddy” Geas seemed in court docket on Friday after creating a take care of prosecutors to modify his plea to responsible referring to his position within the homicide of Bulger.
Geas was once sentenced to twenty-five years in jail for the killing, consistent with the Related Press. He’s already serving a separate existence sentence for his position in more than one different violent crimes.
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Fotios “Freddy” Geas seems for a court docket continuing in his protection within the Al Bruno homicide case, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Geas is being sentenced this week for his position within the killing of Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger. (Don Treeger/The Republican by way of AP)
Bulger, 89, was once killed in 2018 after arriving at U.S. Reformatory, Hazelton in West Virginia.
The Irish gangster, who held high-ranking positions within the Boston mob throughout the Seventies and Eighties, is assumed to had been marked for homicide when he changed into an FBI informant in opposition to a rival gang. The crime boss constantly denied operating with the federal company.
Bulger was once serving two existence sentences after being convicted of a large number of felony acts in 2013 — together with the killing of eleven other folks.
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James “Whitey” Bulger is pictured in a mugshot in 2011. (Bureau of Prisons/Getty Pictures)
Prosecutors declare Geas beat Bulger to loss of life with a steel lock hooked up to a belt simply hours after the crime boss arrived in West Virginia following a switch from a Florida jail.
Geas is attached to the Genovese crime circle of relatives of New York Town however isn’t a “made member” — most probably because of his loss of Italian ancestry.
Some other mobster tied to the homicide, Paul DeCologero, pleaded responsible to attack fees remaining 12 months and was once sentenced to 4 years imprisonment — a small penalty in comparison to the existence sentence he’s already serving for the tried homicide of a teenage woman.
A 3rd particular person related to Bulger’s loss of life, Sean McKinnon, pleaded responsible to mendacity to FBI brokers after prosecutors claimed he served as lookout throughout the homicide.
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This undated reserving {photograph} displays Fotios “Freddy” Geas. The mafia-affilitated hitman pleaded responsible to his position in Bulger’s homicide in a West Virginia jail in 2018.
McKinnon had already spent 22 months in jail following his indictment and was once no longer sentenced to any extra time. He was once transported again to Florida the place he may just proceed a supervised free up.
Bulger’s circle of relatives prior to now sued the FBI over what they declare was once negligence through placing the focused crime boss a few of the normal jail inhabitants as a substitute of a extra safe location.
The lawsuit was once in the long run pushed aside through a pass judgement on in January 2022.
