Contract killer receives 25 years in US prison for murder of “Whitey” Bulger

– A former Mafia hitman already serving a life sentence was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for the 2018 killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in his prison cell.

Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 57, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh in Clarksburg, West Virginia, after agreeing to a deal in which he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in exchange for dropping a charge of aggravated murder, which would have carried a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Geas was the last of three inmates to plead guilty and be sentenced after agreements were reached in May to settle charges filed in Bulger's death in 2022. Geas is serving a life sentence for the 2003 murders of a Springfield, Massachusetts, mob boss, Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno, and an accomplice.

Geas's lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.

Bulger led a double life as one of Boston's most notorious mobsters while also acting as a secret FBI informant. He fled in 1994 after receiving a tip from his FBI handler about an impending organized crime charge against him, and remained on the run until he was captured in California in 2011.

Two years later, Bulger was found guilty of eleven murders and other crimes and sentenced to life in prison.

The 89-year-old was murdered shortly after being transferred from a prison in Florida to a prison in West Virginia.

Prosecutors said that on the morning of Oct. 30, 2018, Geas, a member of the Genovese crime family, and another inmate, Massachusetts mobster Paul DeCologero, went to Bulger's cell.

Geas and Bulger got into a verbal argument, and Geas hit him in the head and attacked him, prosecutors said. He and DeCologero then placed Bulger's body in his bunk bed and covered him with bedding, prosecutors said.

Prison staff did not discover Bulger until nearly two hours later. Other inmates later reported that some men connected to the murder had called Bulger an “informer,” prosecutors said.

DeCologero was sentenced to 51 months in prison last month. A third inmate, Geas' cellmate Sean McKinnon, was sentenced to prison in June after pleading guilty to lying to an FBI agent when he claimed he did not know what happened to Bulger.

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