In connection to the murder of James Whitey Bulger, a notorious Boston Irish mob boss, three inmates were indicted.
Fotios Geos (55), Paul J. DeCologero (48), and Sean McKinnon (36) have been charged by the US Department of Justice for conspiring to murder Bulgar in 2018 in West Virginia.
Geas, also known as “Freddy”, and DeCologero known as “Pauly” are accused in multiple head strikes that led to Bulger’s untimely death. He was being held at US Penitentiary Hazelton (Bruton Mills), West Virginia.
Geas is also facing a charge of murdering a federal prisoner serving a life sentence.
McKinnon is also being accused of falsifying statements to a Federal Agent.
Fotios Geos (right), and Paul DeCologero, (left), are charged with striking James Bulger multiple times in the head, ultimately leading to Bulger’s death at US Penitentiary Hazelton, Bruceton Mills. West Virginia.
Sean McKinnon (36), is accused of conspiring to commit the first degree murder, just like Geas or DeCologero. Also, he has been charged with making false statements about a federal agent.
Pictured is James “Whitey” Bulger’s 2011 muughshot. When he was sentenced to life in 2018, the Boston mobster, James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, died in prison.
According to investigators, Geas and DeCologero brutally attacked the wheelchair-bound Bulger, beat him with a lock in a sock, tried to gouge out the mobster’s eyes with a shiv and attempted to cut out his tongue.
Twelve hours later, prison officers discovered his body wrapped in sheets.
Geas, as per the DOJ’s report, is currently held at USP Hazelton while DeCologero continues to be housed in federal prisons.
McKinnon is a man with no mob ties, but is currently in eight year prison for gun theft.
McKinnon was released last year from prison after two years of solitary confinement, despite not being charged previously.
At the time of indictment, he was taken into custody in Florida.
Bugler (89) was left with an inexplicable padlock inside his sock and was shot to death at Hazelton federal jail, West Virginia.
Officials said the gangster was hardly recognizable following the brutal attack
Bulger, who was on the run for sixteen years, was an important figure in Boston’s underground before being captured by Catherine Greig and taken to Santa Monica.
Bulger was a terroriser of Boston, Massachusetts, from the 1970s to the 1990s, with his campaign of murder and extortion.
Details of his capture and subsequent death in jail are laid bare in a recent book, Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss, by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge.
This revealed that Bulger was determined despite being surrounded by multiple weapons-wielding feds in his garage apartment complex.
With the assistance of Josh Bond (manager of Princess Eugenia Apartments), FBI agents finally managed to capture Bulger. Bulger had been hiding in these apartments.
Bulger was at that time one of FBI’s most wanted criminals. He was sentenced for 11 gangland murders.
Catherine Greig was his 70-year-old girlfriend. He had been in federal prison for nine years, helping him to evade capture over 16 years.
The walls of the apartment, which was rent-controlled by the couple contained more than $822,000 in cash and thirty guns.
Whitey Bulger: Crimes and Life of a Mob Kingpin
Sept. 3, 1929:James Bulger was the son of Irish immigrants who grew up in Boston’s Dorchester neighbourhood. He is the second child of six. He is the second of six children. His platinum-blonde hair earned him the nickname “Whitey.”
1956:Whitey Bulger gets a federal sentence for bank robbery. He is suspected of planning an escape plan from one prison and is transferred to Alcatraz.
1960: Bulger is the younger brother of William Connolly, who was elected to the House of Representatives. John Connolly (a South Boston friend and childhood acquaintance) is involved in the campaign.
1965:Bulger is released and returns home to Boston. He is made the top local underling by Howie Winter who heads the Winter Hill Gang.
1970: William Bulger has been elected to the Senate of the State.
1975:Bulger made a deal for protection with Connolly (now a Boston FBI agent) in return for information about the Italian Mafia.
1978:William Bulger takes over as president of state Senate
1981: Roger Wheeler is the owner of World Jai Alai. Bulger ran a gambling business from it. Bulger gets his money in the car park of the country club in Tulsa.
Bulger as seen in 1994. Bulger disappeared shortly before his 1995 indictment for racketeering.
1982:Bulger and Stephen Flemmi, aka ‘The Rifleman,’ gun down an ex-henchman on broad daylight in South Boston to silence them over Wheeler’s murder. Connolly reports to the FBI that the victim was a rival gangster.
July 1982 Flemmi, Bulger and John Callahan order a hit against the former president World Jai Alai.
January 1995 Bulger vanishes just before he is indicted on racketeering allegations.
1997: According to court order, Bulger has been admitted by the FBI as a top echelon informant. This led to a federal investigation into corrupt connections between Bulger and its mob informants.
June 22, 2011:Bulger, along with Catherine Grieg, is taken into custody in Santa Monica, CA.
August 12, 2013, 12:00Bulger has been found guilty of numerous racketeering offenses, including 11 murders.
Nov 13 2013: Bulger (aged 84) is sentenced for two consecutive life sentences, plus five additional years. Bulger, aged 84, is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus five years. Bulger says that they are all made worse because it was all about money.
Oct. 30, 2018:Bulger was found dead at USP Hazelton, just hours after being transferred from West Virginia to the federal prison.