by Ivan » Fri Sep 06, 2024 2:04 pm
Is Geas out of Supermax now? I thought he was in there, but BOP has him (back?) in Hazelton.
Here's the article.
CLARKSBURG, W. Va. — A former Mafia enforcer pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Friday for killing notorious South Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger at a federal prison in West Virginia in 2018 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Under a plea agreement, Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 57, of Springfield, Mass., pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter and an assault charge. In exchange the government dropped murder charges that carried a mandatory life sentence.
The hefty sentence is largely symbolic, as Geas is is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the 2003 murders of Springfield mob boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno and an associate.
The government previously dropped murder charges against two other inmates who were indicted along with Geas two years ago, and they pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
Bulger was 89 and in failing health when he was killed inside his cell at US Penitentiary Hazelton on the morning of Oct. 30, 2018, less than 12 hours after he was transferred to the prison under questionable circumstances and placed in general population.
Bulger, who spent 16 years on the run before his capture in 2011, was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for killing 11 people while running a sprawling criminal enterprise from the 1970s to the 1990s. He was publicly identified in the late 1990s as a longtime FBI informant who provided information against local Mafiosi, yet was placed in the same unit as Geas and other organized crime figures from Massachusetts.
In August 2022, Geas and two other inmates, Paul J. DeCologero, 50, of Lowell, and Sean McKinnon, 38, who was born in Waltham and raised in Vermont, were indicted on charges that they plotted Bulger’s murder. They had been scheduled to stand trial in December, but all three reached plea agreements with the government.
DeCologero admitted he served as the “lookout” while Geas attacked Bulger and was sentenced in August to 51 months in prison after pleading guilty to an assault charge. He was ordered to serve that sentence on top of a 25-year sentence he is serving for a racketeering conviction in Boston.
McKinnon pleaded guilty in June to lying to the FBI when he denied knowing Geas and DeCologero were involved in Bulger’s slaying. He was sentenced to time served — the 22 months he spent in prison since his 2022 indictment — and was released.
Is Geas out of Supermax now? I thought he was in there, but BOP has him (back?) in Hazelton.
Here's the article.
CLARKSBURG, W. Va. — A former Mafia enforcer pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Friday for killing notorious South Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger at a federal prison in West Virginia in 2018 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Under a plea agreement, Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 57, of Springfield, Mass., pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter and an assault charge. In exchange the government dropped murder charges that carried a mandatory life sentence.
The hefty sentence is largely symbolic, as Geas is is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the 2003 murders of Springfield mob boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno and an associate.
The government previously dropped murder charges against two other inmates who were indicted along with Geas two years ago, and they pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
Bulger was 89 and in failing health when he was killed inside his cell at US Penitentiary Hazelton on the morning of Oct. 30, 2018, less than 12 hours after he was transferred to the prison under questionable circumstances and placed in general population.
Bulger, who spent 16 years on the run before his capture in 2011, was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for killing 11 people while running a sprawling criminal enterprise from the 1970s to the 1990s. He was publicly identified in the late 1990s as a longtime FBI informant who provided information against local Mafiosi, yet was placed in the same unit as Geas and other organized crime figures from Massachusetts.
In August 2022, Geas and two other inmates, Paul J. DeCologero, 50, of Lowell, and Sean McKinnon, 38, who was born in Waltham and raised in Vermont, were indicted on charges that they plotted Bulger’s murder. They had been scheduled to stand trial in December, but all three reached plea agreements with the government.
DeCologero admitted he served as the “lookout” while Geas attacked Bulger and was sentenced in August to 51 months in prison after pleading guilty to an assault charge. He was ordered to serve that sentence on top of a 25-year sentence he is serving for a racketeering conviction in Boston.
McKinnon pleaded guilty in June to lying to the FBI when he denied knowing Geas and DeCologero were involved in Bulger’s slaying. He was sentenced to time served — the 22 months he spent in prison since his 2022 indictment — and was released.