McKinnon meanwhile is charged with making false statements to a federal agent. Geas is also facing a separate charge for murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence. Geas and DeCologero are accused of striking Bulger in the head multiple times and causing his death, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia announced.Īs well as the conspiracy to murder charge, Geas and DeCologero are also charged with aiding and abetting first degree murder and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Bulger was 89 years old and in a wheelchair at the time. He was found by prison guards wrapped in blankets and posed to appear as if he were sleeping. It was the morning of 30 October 2018 when Bulger – who had arrived at the federal prison just 12 hours earlier – was beaten to death with a heavy padlock inside a sock. He then became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives when – following a tip-off from an FBI insider – he went on the run for 16 years.įor more than a decade the Irish mafia boss topped the FBI’s Most Wanted list, coming second only to Al-Qaeda leader and the man behind 9/11 Osama Bin Laden.īut now, US authorities are pursuing justice for his own murder.įotios “Freddy” Geas, 55, Paul “Pauly” DeCologero, 48, and Sean McKinnon, 36, were indicted this week on charges of conspiracy to commit first degree murder.Īll three were behind bars with Bulger at the US Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia when he was savagely beaten beyond all recognition almost four years ago. 3 years after Bulger's killing: No charges, still questions.Three men charged with beating gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger to death.Whitey Bulger’s family loses attempt to sue over prison transfer that saw him beaten to death.
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