Three men indicted in murder of notorious Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger

Three males have been indicted in reference to the brutal killing of James “Whitey” Bulger in jail.

The 89-year-old Boston gangster was bludgeoned to dying with a padlock stuffed in a sock Oct. 30, 2018, hours after being transferred to United States Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, W.Va. — a maximum-security jail.

Fotios Geas, 55, Paul DeCologero, 48, and Sean McKinnon, 36, every had been charged Wednesday with conspiracy to commit first diploma homicide, federal prosecutors introduced.

Geas and DeCologero, each of whom are accused of hitting Bulger within the head, have additionally been charged with aiding and abetting first diploma homicide, together with assault leading to severe bodily harm. Geas moreover faces a separate cost for homicide by a federal inmate serving a life sentence and McKinnon faces a separate cost of mendacity to a federal agent.

Geas stays incarcerated at USP Hazelton. DeCologero, whereas now not at Hazelton, stays housed in a federal jail.  McKinnon, who was out on federal supervised launch on the time of the indictment, was arrested on Thursday in Florida.

Geas, a former Mafia hitman, might have been looking for revenge on behalf of Frederick Weichel, a person he befriended throughout their stint behind bars in Shirley, Massachusetts and who claimed Bulger framed him for a slaying 38 years in the past, the Boston Globe reported.

Bulger ran profitable felony rackets for Boston’s vicious Winter Hill Gang from the Nineteen Seventies via ’90s underneath the safety of crooked FBI brokers.

Bulger, the inspiration behind Jack Nicholson’s character in Martin Scorsese’s  Oscar-winning film “The Departed,” went on the run in 1995 after getting tipped that he was about to be arrested.

He spent 16 years on the lam along with his girlfriends earlier than he was arrested in California in 2011.

In 2013, he was convicted of dozens of felonies, together with participating in 11 murders, and was sentenced to 2 life sentences plus 5 years.

In Sept. 2019, the Bulger household sued the Division of Justice for $200 million, claiming it intentionally put the gangster in hurt’s approach.

“There’s merely no different clarification for the switch of somebody in his situation and inmate standing to be positioned within the common inhabitants of one of many nation’s most violent federal penitentiaries,”  household legal professional Hank Brennan advised ABC Information. The swimsuit was dismissed by a choose earlier this yr.

In Nov. 2020, Bulger’s household sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons over his homicide. The lawsuit claimed the felony was “maybe probably the most notorious and well-known inmate” since Al Capone, in line with the Boston Globe, and sued the bureau for transferring a widely known “snitch” to a West Virginia jail recognized for inmate violence. That swimsuit was additionally dismissed this January.