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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

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Convicted mob hitman&comma; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Fotios &&num;8216&semi;Freddy&&num;8217&semi; Geas&comma; 51&comma; is suspected of instigating the killing of Whitey Bulger<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Geas is serving a life sentence after he was ratted out for the 2003 killing of mob boss &&num;8216&semi;Big Al&&num;8217&semi; Bruno and another <&sol;strong>associate&comma; Gary D Westerman<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>A private investigator said &&num;8216&semi;Freddy hated rats&&num;8217&semi; and suspects Geas would have killed Bulger because of his role as an FBI informant <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The 89-year-old notorious mob boss was killed in prison overnight on Tuesday after he was<&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong> reportedly beaten with a lock in a sock and had his eyes partly gouged&comma; tongue slashed  <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Bulger who was at the top of the FBI&&num;8217&semi;s most wanted for 16 years until his 2011 arres<&sol;span><&sol;strong><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">t&comma; boasted that he was about to dish on FBI informant program&comma; implicating highly placed personnel&comma; sources said<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Geas has not disputed his role in the killings&comma; local media claims&comma; and has refused to identify his accomplices<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"> The suspect has exhausted all chances of appeal in his case<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img-group artSplitter">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"splitLeft">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-301179" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Fotios-Freddy-Geas-left-is-suspected-of-killing-of-James-Whitey-Bulger-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fotios 'Freddy' Geas&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; is suspected of killing of James 'Whitey' Bulger &lbrack;right&rsqb; 1" width&equals;"703" height&equals;"488" &sol;>Fotios &&num;8216&semi;Freddy&&num;8217&semi; Geas&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb; is suspected of leading the group of three inmates who killed mob boss James &&num;8216&semi;Whitey&&num;8217&semi; Bulger &lbrack;right&rsqb; Tuesday in a federal prison in West Virginia<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon">&NewLine;<p>According to a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bostonglobe&period;com&sol;metro&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;30&sol;freddy-geas-suspected-killer-whitey-bulger-didn-like-informants&sol;McRR1z3xV6005dS3H6rTiL&sol;story&period;html&quest;s&lowbar;campaign&equals;bostonglobe&percnt;3Asocialflow&percnt;3Atwitter" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Boston Globe<&sol;a> report&comma; the convicted killer with an open disdain for informants&comma; Geas is viewed as a person-of-interest in the killing of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger&period; Geas’&comma; 51&comma; connection to the October 30 killing at the U&period;S&period; Federal Prison in Hazelton&comma; West Virginia&comma; &period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Incidentally&comma; Freddy Geas is serving life and has exhausted all of his appeals in his case&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wheelchair-bound Bulger was moved to the prison in West Virginia on the morning of October 30&period; That same day&comma; a homicide was reported inside the maximum security facility&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The 89-yer-old former Boston crime boss serving several life sentences&comma; was set upon by inmates inside of his cell&period; Around 8 a&period;m&period; Tuesday&comma; Bulger was attacked with a padlock in a sock and some kind of shiv&period; Inmates could be seen attempting to clean up the blood with a bucket and mop after the killing&period; The assailants allegedly attempted to gouge out one of Bulger’s eyes and to rip out his tongue&comma; but failed&period; When Bulger was found by officers&comma; he had dents in his head&period; He was pronounced dead at the scene&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A Mafia hitman and career criminal is suspected of leading the fatal attack on notorious Boston mob boss James &&num;8216&semi;Whitey&&num;8217&semi; Bulger&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Reason&colon; Fotios &&num;8216&semi;Freddy&&num;8217&semi; Geas&comma; hates informants&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Freddy Geas&comma; 51&comma; 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&comma; in West Virginia on Tuesday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At least two men including Geas are being investigated for the attack after being caught on CCTV entering Bulger&&num;8217&semi;s cell around 6am  on Tuesday&period; Two hours later&comma; Bulger was found dead&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Geas&comma; who is in the pen after he was ratted on for the murders of former Genovese crime family mob boss Adolfo &&num;8216&semi;Big Al&&num;8217&semi; Bruno and associate Gary D Westerman in 2003 &&num;8216&semi;hated rats&comma;&&num;8217&semi; private investigator Ted McDonough said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h5 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-301156" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;James-Whitey-Bulger-2-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"James Whitey Bulger 2" width&equals;"667" height&equals;"868" &sol;><strong>After his capture in Santa Monica&comma; Calif&comma; in 2011&comma; James &OpenCurlyQuote;Whitey’ Bulger&comma; &lbrack;in orange reg uniform&rsqb;&comma; is escorted from a U&period;S&period; Coast Guard helicopter to a waiting vehicle at an airport in Plymouth&comma; Mass&period; The 89-year-old lasted five years in jail before he was killed<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>James Whitey Bulger had cut a sweet deal to serve as an FBI informant as far back as 1975&comma; giving him virtual impunity to commit any crime he wanted &&num;8211&semi; except murder &&num;8211&semi; for decades&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Whitey&comma; the former head of south Boston&&num;8217&semi;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&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Freddy hated guys who abused women&period; Whitey was a rat who killed women&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s probably that simple&comma;&&num;8217&semi; McDonough&comma; who became friendly with Geas while working for him as an investigator&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bulger was found dead by guards on Tuesday morning at USP Hazelton&comma; a high-security federal prison in Bruceton Mills&comma; West Virginia&period; He was 89&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He had just been moved to Hazelton Monday from a prison in Florida after a stint in a transfer facility in Oklahoma City&comma; for reasons yet to be clarified&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bulger was in general population when three inmates rolled his wheelchair to a corner out of view of surveillance cameras&comma; beat him in the head with a lock wrapped in a sock&comma; and attempted to gouge his eyes out with a shiv&comma; according to reports&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Law enforcement sources said Whitey had been talking about outing people in the top echelon of the controversial FBI informant program&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The sources said he hadn&&num;8217&semi;t even been processed at the West Virginia facility when he was killed&period; Sources said someone who knew Bulger was being transferred put the word out &&num;8211&semi; the killer&lbrack;s&rsqb; had to know he was coming&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img-group floatRHS">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-301178" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Fotios-Freddy-Geas-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fotios 'Freddy' Geas 2&period;JPG" width&equals;"594" height&equals;"736" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Jailhouse murder suspect&colon; Life serving mafia hitman Fotios Freddy Geas  &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; &&num;8216&semi;hated rats&&num;8217&semi;&period;  Sources said Geas&comma; would have killed Bulger because of his role as an informant<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-301191" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;James-Whitey-Bulger-13&period;jpg" alt&equals;"James Whitey Bulger 13&period;JPG" width&equals;"687" height&equals;"652" &sol;><strong>Whitey Bulger &lbrack;L-R&rsqb; ruled the South Boston underworld for 30 years with an iron fist<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div>A private investigator said &&num;8216&semi;Freddy hated rats&&num;8217&semi; and suspects Geas&comma; would have killed Bulger because of his role as an informant<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Geas has not disputed his role in the killings&comma; local media claims&comma; and has refused to identify his accomplices&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The lawyer who represented him when he was jailed for murder said he was not surprised that Geas was refusing to cooperate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;He wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t rat on anybody&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said attorney David Hoose&period; &&num;8216&semi;And he had no respect for anyone who did&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Geas was also no stranger to extreme violence&period; When he killed Westerman in 2003&comma; he shot the mobster twice in the head&comma; but somehow he survived&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When Westerham broke free of Geas and his brother Ty and tried to flee&comma; the pair dragged him back to the pit they had dug and beat him to death with shovels&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Afterward&comma; Geas praised his brother for completing some &&num;8216&semi;good teamwork&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In Big Al&&num;8217&semi;s case&comma; Geas did not execute the hit himself&comma; but hired another hitman to carry out the murder for him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He was caught after both the hitman &&num;8211&semi; a former cellmate named Frankie Roche &&num;8211&semi; and the man who ordered the killing&comma; Mafia boss Anthony Arillotta&comma; turned on him and agreed to testify&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"splitLeft">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-301184" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Adolfo-Big-Al-Bruno-left-and-Gary-D-Westerman-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Adolfo 'Big Al' Bruno &lbrack;left&rsqb; and Gary D Westerman &lbrack;right&rsqb; 1&period;JPG" width&equals;"789" height&equals;"543" &sol;><&sol;strong><strong>Fotios &&num;8216&semi;Freddy&&num;8217&semi; Geas<&sol;strong><strong>&&num;8216&semi; victims&colon; Jailhouse killer Freddy is serving a life sentence for the murders of former Genovese crime family mob boss Adolfo &&num;8216&semi;Big Al&&num;8217&semi; Bruno &lbrack;left&rsqb; and associate Gary D Westerman &lbrack;right&rsqb; in 2003<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>Prison officials have not said who else may have been involved in Bulger&&num;8217&semi;s murder&comma; but mobster Paul Weadick&comma; 63&comma; was sent to Hazelton this summer after his murder conviction alongside Francis &&num;8216&semi;Cadillac Frank&&num;8217&semi; Salemme &&num;8211&semi; Bulger&&num;8217&semi;s co-defendant in a sweeping federal racketeering indictment in 1999&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Salamme and Weadick were convicted in June of the 1993 murder of Steven DiSarro&comma; a nightclub owner in South Boston&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bulger&&num;8217&semi;s right-hand man&comma; Stephen &&num;8216&semi;The Rifleman&&num;8217&semi; Flemmi&comma; was the star witness in the prosecution of Salamme and Weadick &&num;8211&semi; though Flemmi also testified against Bulger himself in 2013&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Salamme&comma; 85&comma; is currently incarcerated in Brooklyn MDC&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-301167" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Stephen-The-Rifleman-Flemmi-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Stephen 'The Rifleman' Flemmi 1" width&equals;"739" height&equals;"501" &sol;><strong>Bulger lieutenant Stephen &&num;8216&semi;The Rifleman&&num;8217&semi; Flemmi is seen testifying in 1998 to how FBI agents recruited him as an informant and protected him from being indicted for 25 years<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-301165" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Paul-Weadick-63-left-and-Francis-Cadillac-Frank-Salemme-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Paul Weadick&comma; 63&comma; &lpar;left&rpar; and Francis 'Cadillac Frank' Salemme &lpar;right&rpar; 1" width&equals;"734" height&equals;"384" &sol;><strong>Bulger’ co-tenants at Hazelton&colon; Boston mobster Paul Weadick&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; was sent to Hazelton this summer after his murder conviction alongside Francis &OpenCurlyQuote;Cadillac Frank’ Salemme &lbrack;right&rsqb; who was Bulger’s codefendant in a federal racketeering indictment in 1999&period; Bulger&&num;8217&semi;s former right-hand man Stephen &&num;8216&semi;The Rifleman&&num;8217&semi; Flemmi was a star witness against both men<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon">It has also been suggested that  Bulger was set to open up to someone on Congressman Lynch&&num;8217&semi;s team&comma; investigating possible abuses in the FBI informant program with claims of abuses involving highly placed feds&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bulger was one of the FBI&&num;8217&semi;s most wanted fugitives for 16 years until his 2011 arrest in Santa Monica&comma; California&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His 2013 trial&comma; which featured 72 witnesses and 840 exhibits&comma; produced chilling testimony worthy of a pulp novel&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It heard harrowing tales of teeth being pulled from the mouths of murder victims to foil identification and the strangulation of a mobster&&num;8217&semi;s girlfriend who &&num;8216&semi;knew too much&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-301162" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;USP-Hazelton-in-West-Virginia-where-James-Whitey-Bulger-was-killed&period;jpg" alt&equals;"USP Hazelton in West Virginia where James Whitey Bulger was killed" width&equals;"812" height&equals;"426" &sol;><strong>Bulger was just a day old at USP Hazelton in West Virginia when he was murdered&comma; allegedly by three other inmates on Tuesday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"mol-d1724cb0-dccf-11e8-83d3-8118bcc8fa97" class&equals;"floatRHS mol-factbox news art-ins" data-version&equals;"2" data-permabox-url&equals;"&sol;news&sol;fb-6336429&sol;GENOVESE-CLAN-KNOWN-ROLLS-ROYCE-ORGANISED-CRIME&period;html">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ins cleared mol-factbox-body">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement Tuesday&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Life-saving measures were initiated immediately by responding staff&period; Mr&period; Bulger was subsequently pronounced dead by the Preston County Medical Examiner&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Bureau said that no other staff or inmates were injured and that an investigation was underway&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a statement&comma; Bulger&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer J&period;W&period; Carney Jr blasted the prison system over the mobster&&num;8217&semi;s death&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;He was sentenced to life in prison&comma; but as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons&comma; that sentence has been changed to the death penalty&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the statement read&period;&&num;8217&semi;This facility is severely understaffed&comma;&&num;8217&semi; according to the president of the prison officers union&period;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the past seven months&comma; there have been three homicides at Hazelton &&num;8211&semi; dubbed Misery Mountain &&num;8211&semi; with the officers&&num;8217&semi; union blaming chronic under-staffing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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