Whitey Bulger murder: 3 charged with killing gangster in prison in 2018
Three people have been charged in the 2018 prison killing of the notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, federal authorities said Thursday.
Three people have been charged in the 2018 prison killing of the notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, federal authorities said Thursday.
Fotios Geas, 55; Paul J. DeCologero, 48; and Sean McKinnon, 36, were charged Wednesday with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern West Virginia said in a statement.
A prison guard found Bulger's body in his cell at 8:21 a.m. Oct. 30, 2018, at U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, less than 12 hours after he arrived in a transfer from a federal penitentiary in Florida.
Fotios "Freddy" Geas appears in court in the Al Bruno murder case in Springfield, Mass., in April 2009.Don Treeger / The Republican via AP fileSean McKinnon.Family photoProsecutors accused Geas and DeCologero fatally striking Bulger in the head multiple times.
Geas and DeCologero were also charged with aiding and abetting first-degree murder and assault resulting in serious bodily injury, the statement said. McKinnon was accused of making false statements to a federal agent, it said.
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