CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — A federal judge added 25 years to the prison sentence of a former Mafia hitman in connection with the 2018 Hazelton Prison beating death of notorious mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger.
Federal prisoner Fotios “Freddy” Geas was sentenced Friday in federal court in Clarksburg after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury in connection with Bulger’s 2018 death.
Prosecutors said Geas used a lock attached to a belt to beat Bulger to death less than 12 hours after he arrived at the federal prison located in Preston County.
Geas, 57, was serving a life sentence for previous violent crimes.
Bulger was a Boston mob boss in the 1970s and ’80s and also served as an FBI informant who provided information to authorities about the organizations rival gang.
Also sentenced in the case was Pail DeCologero, a Massachusetts gangster and a third inmate, Sean McKinnon, pleaded guilty in June to lying to FBI special agents. He was given no additional prison time order to complete his supervised release program.