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‘Freddy hated rats’: Convicted mob hitman, Fotios ‘Freddy’ Geas, 51, ‘led the deadly attack on Whitey Bulger, 89, because he didn’t like FBI informants’ – prison authorities

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Convicted mob hitman, Fotios ‘Freddy’ Geas, 51, is suspected of instigating the killing of Whitey Bulger
Geas is serving a life sentence after he was ratted out for the 2003 killing of mob boss ‘Big Al’ Bruno and another associate, Gary D Westerman
A private investigator said ‘Freddy hated rats’ and suspects Geas would have killed Bulger because of his role as an FBI informant 
The 89-year-old notorious mob boss was killed in prison overnight on Tuesday after he was reportedly beaten with a lock in a sock and had his eyes partly gouged, tongue slashed 
Bulger who was at the top of the FBI’s most wanted for 16 years until his 2011 arrest, boasted that he was about to dish on FBI informant program, implicating highly placed personnel, sources said
Geas has not disputed his role in the killings, local media claims, and has refused to identify his accomplices
The suspect has exhausted all chances of appeal in his case
Fotios 'Freddy' Geas, [left], is suspected of killing of James 'Whitey' Bulger [right] 1Fotios ‘Freddy’ Geas, [left] is suspected of leading the group of three inmates who killed mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger [right] Tuesday in a federal prison in West Virginia

According to a Boston Globe report, the convicted killer with an open disdain for informants, Geas is viewed as a person-of-interest in the killing of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. Geas’, 51, connection to the October 30 killing at the U.S. Federal Prison in Hazelton, West Virginia, .
Incidentally, Freddy Geas is serving life and has exhausted all of his appeals in his case.
Wheelchair-bound Bulger was moved to the prison in West Virginia on the morning of October 30. That same day, a homicide was reported inside the maximum security facility.
The 89-yer-old former Boston crime boss serving several life sentences, was set upon by inmates inside of his cell. Around 8 a.m. Tuesday, Bulger was attacked with a padlock in a sock and some kind of shiv. Inmates could be seen attempting to clean up the blood with a bucket and mop after the killing. The assailants allegedly attempted to gouge out one of Bulger’s eyes and to rip out his tongue, but failed. When Bulger was found by officers, he had dents in his head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A Mafia hitman and career criminal is suspected of leading the fatal attack on notorious Boston mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger.
Reason: Fotios ‘Freddy’ Geas, hates informants.
Freddy Geas, 51, is under investigation for allegedly instigating a group of men to beat wheelchair-bound Bulger to death with a lock wrapped in a sock and partially gouge his eyes inside a maximum security prison, in West Virginia on Tuesday.
At least two men including Geas are being investigated for the attack after being caught on CCTV entering Bulger’s cell around 6am  on Tuesday. Two hours later, Bulger was found dead.
Geas, who is in the pen after he was ratted on for the murders of former Genovese crime family mob boss Adolfo ‘Big Al’ Bruno and associate Gary D Westerman in 2003 ‘hated rats,’ private investigator Ted McDonough said.

James Whitey Bulger 2After his capture in Santa Monica, Calif, in 2011, James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, [in orange reg uniform], is escorted from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to a waiting vehicle at an airport in Plymouth, Mass. The 89-year-old lasted five years in jail before he was killed

James Whitey Bulger had cut a sweet deal to serve as an FBI informant as far back as 1975, giving him virtual impunity to commit any crime he wanted – except murder – for decades.
Whitey, the former head of south Boston’s Winter Hill Gang was convicted in 2013 of killing at least 11 people and was serving two life sentences at the time of his death.
‘Freddy hated guys who abused women. Whitey was a rat who killed women. It’s probably that simple,’ McDonough, who became friendly with Geas while working for him as an investigator.
Bulger was found dead by guards on Tuesday morning at USP Hazelton, a high-security federal prison in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. He was 89.
He had just been moved to Hazelton Monday from a prison in Florida after a stint in a transfer facility in Oklahoma City, for reasons yet to be clarified.
Bulger was in general population when three inmates rolled his wheelchair to a corner out of view of surveillance cameras, beat him in the head with a lock wrapped in a sock, and attempted to gouge his eyes out with a shiv, according to reports.
Law enforcement sources said Whitey had been talking about outing people in the top echelon of the controversial FBI informant program.
The sources said he hadn’t even been processed at the West Virginia facility when he was killed. Sources said someone who knew Bulger was being transferred put the word out – the killer[s] had to know he was coming.

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Jailhouse murder suspect: Life serving mafia hitman Fotios Freddy Geas  [photo], ‘hated rats’.  Sources said Geas, would have killed Bulger because of his role as an informant
James Whitey Bulger 13.JPGWhitey Bulger [L-R] ruled the South Boston underworld for 30 years with an iron fist
A private investigator said ‘Freddy hated rats’ and suspects Geas, would have killed Bulger because of his role as an informant

Geas has not disputed his role in the killings, local media claims, and has refused to identify his accomplices.
The lawyer who represented him when he was jailed for murder said he was not surprised that Geas was refusing to cooperate.
‘He wouldn’t rat on anybody,’ said attorney David Hoose. ‘And he had no respect for anyone who did.’
Geas was also no stranger to extreme violence. When he killed Westerman in 2003, he shot the mobster twice in the head, but somehow he survived.
When Westerham broke free of Geas and his brother Ty and tried to flee, the pair dragged him back to the pit they had dug and beat him to death with shovels.
Afterward, Geas praised his brother for completing some ‘good teamwork’.
In Big Al’s case, Geas did not execute the hit himself, but hired another hitman to carry out the murder for him.
He was caught after both the hitman – a former cellmate named Frankie Roche – and the man who ordered the killing, Mafia boss Anthony Arillotta, turned on him and agreed to testify.

Adolfo 'Big Al' Bruno [left] and Gary D Westerman [right] 1.JPGFotios ‘Freddy’ Geas‘ victims: Jailhouse killer Freddy is serving a life sentence for the murders of former Genovese crime family mob boss Adolfo ‘Big Al’ Bruno [left] and associate Gary D Westerman [right] in 2003
Prison officials have not said who else may have been involved in Bulger’s murder, but mobster Paul Weadick, 63, was sent to Hazelton this summer after his murder conviction alongside Francis ‘Cadillac Frank’ Salemme – Bulger’s co-defendant in a sweeping federal racketeering indictment in 1999.
Salamme and Weadick were convicted in June of the 1993 murder of Steven DiSarro, a nightclub owner in South Boston.
Bulger’s right-hand man, Stephen ‘The Rifleman’ Flemmi, was the star witness in the prosecution of Salamme and Weadick – though Flemmi also testified against Bulger himself in 2013.
Salamme, 85, is currently incarcerated in Brooklyn MDC.
Stephen 'The Rifleman' Flemmi 1Bulger lieutenant Stephen ‘The Rifleman’ Flemmi is seen testifying in 1998 to how FBI agents recruited him as an informant and protected him from being indicted for 25 years
Paul Weadick, 63, (left) and Francis 'Cadillac Frank' Salemme (right) 1Bulger’ co-tenants at Hazelton: Boston mobster Paul Weadick, [left], was sent to Hazelton this summer after his murder conviction alongside Francis ‘Cadillac Frank’ Salemme [right] who was Bulger’s codefendant in a federal racketeering indictment in 1999. Bulger’s former right-hand man Stephen ‘The Rifleman’ Flemmi was a star witness against both men
It has also been suggested that  Bulger was set to open up to someone on Congressman Lynch’s team, investigating possible abuses in the FBI informant program with claims of abuses involving highly placed feds.
Bulger was one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives for 16 years until his 2011 arrest in Santa Monica, California.
His 2013 trial, which featured 72 witnesses and 840 exhibits, produced chilling testimony worthy of a pulp novel.
It heard harrowing tales of teeth being pulled from the mouths of murder victims to foil identification and the strangulation of a mobster’s girlfriend who ‘knew too much.’
USP Hazelton in West Virginia where James Whitey Bulger was killedBulger was just a day old at USP Hazelton in West Virginia when he was murdered, allegedly by three other inmates on Tuesday

The Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement Tuesday: ‘Life-saving measures were initiated immediately by responding staff. Mr. Bulger was subsequently pronounced dead by the Preston County Medical Examiner.’
The Bureau said that no other staff or inmates were injured and that an investigation was underway.
In a statement, Bulger’s lawyer J.W. Carney Jr blasted the prison system over the mobster’s death.
‘He was sentenced to life in prison, but as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence has been changed to the death penalty,’ the statement read.’This facility is severely understaffed,’ according to the president of the prison officers union..
In the past seven months, there have been three homicides at Hazelton – dubbed Misery Mountain – with the officers’ union blaming chronic under-staffing.

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