CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — A federal judge added 25-years to the prison sentence of a former Mafia hitman in connection with the prison beating death of notorious mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger in 2018.
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.
Prosecutors said Geas used a lock attached to a belt to beat Bulger to death just hours after he arrived at U.S. Penitentiary, Hazelton in Oct. of 2018.
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.