A mafia hit a man who hated the "rats" suspected of killing Whitey Bulger: an official

BOSTON – A mafia man suspected of hating "rats" is suspected in the badbadination of the former head of the Boston Judicial Police and long-time FBI informant, James " Whitey "Bulger, found dead a few hours after being transferred to a West Virginia jail, said Wednesday a former investigator informed about the case.

The former official said that Fotios "Freddy" Geas and at least one other detainee would be involved in the murder of Bulger. The long-time investigator was not allowed to discuss the issue and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Authorities did not reveal the cause of death.

Among the many questions left unanswered after Bulger's death on Tuesday: why was he transferred to prison? And why was a frail 89-year-old man like Bulger – a known "snitch" – placed in the general population rather than in more protective dwellings?

Lawyer Hank Brennan said that Bulger had been injured in his hip and was in a wheelchair when he was attacked. Brennan represented Bulger at his 2013 trial.

Geas, 51, and his brother were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for their role in several violent crimes, including the 2003 badbadination of Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno, a genovese head of the family. murdered in a Springfield, Mbadachusetts, parking lot.

Private detective Ted McDonough, who knew Geas, told the Boston Globe: "Freddy hated rats."

"Freddy hated guys who abused women.Whitey was a rat who killed women.It's probably that simple," McDonough told the newspaper, who first reported that Geas was suspected .

It was not clear if Geas has a lawyer. Several other lawyers who have represented him over the years have not immediately responded to a request for comment.

An FBI spokesperson in Pittsburgh declined to comment on Geas. Federal officials only said that they were investigating the death of a homicide.

"What I do not understand is why the Federal Bureau of Prisons would transfer a very large publicity detainee, known as a spy, to the general population of a high security prison," he said. said Cameron Lindsay, former federal prison warden. now works as a security consultant in prison. "You must be smarter than that."

He added, "If I were the guardian of Hazelton, I would never have, never let it into my general population.It is too risky."

Bulger's death is the third murder committed in the last six months in prison. Union officials have expressed concern over dozens of vacancies. Two detainees were killed in clashes with other prisoners in September and April.

Last week, five congressional members wrote to the Attorney General's sessions about what they saw as a chronic understaff at USP Hazelton and in other federal prisons.

Bulger led the Irish band in South Boston for decades and became an FBI informant who provided information about the New England Mafia, his band's main rival, at a time when the destruction of the Italian mob was a top priority for the office.

Bulger became a fugitive and evaded authorities for 16 years before being captured in 2011. He was sentenced in 2013 for 11 murders of the underworld and a long list of other crimes and was sentenced to his death. life behind bars.

He had just arrived Monday at USP Hazelton, a high security prison located in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. He had previously stayed in a Florida jail with a stopover at a transfer center in Oklahoma City. The officials of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and his lawyer refused to say why he had been displaced.

Bulger's lawyer, JW Carney Jr., blamed his death on prison officials, saying Bulger "was sentenced to life in prison, but that, as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the sentence was changed to death sentence".

Prison officials did not comment on Carney's remarks.

The Geas brothers were not members of the mafia because they were Greek and not Italian. But they were close collaborators of the crowd and acted as applicators.

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Journalists Eric Tucker and Mike Balsamo of Washington and John Raby of Charleston, West Virginia, contributed to this report.