Did Mafia hitman murder Whitey?
A MAFIA hitman who is said to hate ‘rats’ is under suspicion in the killing of mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, a former investigator has said.
Bulger, the former Boston crime boss and longtime FBI informant, was found beaten to death in his cell and ‘unrecognisable’ hours after he was transferred to a West Virginia prison.
The official said that Fotios ‘Freddy’ Geas and at least one other inmate are believed to have been involved in Bulger’s killing.
Authorities have not disclosed the cause of death for the 89-year-old Bulger. He was found dead on Tuesday.
Geas, 51, and his brother were sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for their roles in several violent crimes, including the 2003 killing of Adolfo ‘Big Al’ Bruno, a Genovese crime family boss gunned down in a car park in Massachusetts.
Private investigator Ted McDonough, who knew Geas, told the Boston Globe: ‘Freddy hated guys who abused women. Whitey was a rat who killed women. It’s probably that simple.’
An FBI spokeswoman in Pittsburgh declined to comment on Geas. Officials said only that they are investigating the death as a homicide. Bulger’s lawyer, JW Carney Jr, blamed his death on prison officials, saying Bulger ‘was sentenced to life in prison, but as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence was changed to the death penalty’.