Afrigather CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — An inmate is ready to be sentenced within the deadly bludgeoning of infamous Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger after making a take care of prosecutors to vary his plea from not responsible.
Massachusetts gangster Paul J. DeCologero is scheduled to look Thursday in U.S. District Court docket in northern West Virginia.
Prosecutors mentioned DeCologero and inmate Fotios “Freddy” Geas used a lock hooked up to a belt to repeatedly hit Bulger within the head hours after he arrived at a troubled West Virginia jail from one other lockup in Florida in October 2018. An inmate advised a grand jury that DeCologero mentioned to him that Bulger was a “snitch” they usually deliberate to kill him as quickly as he got here into their unit at United States Penitentiary, Hazelton.
DeCologero and Geas had been charged with homicide and conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide, which carries as much as a life sentence. Final yr the Justice Division mentioned it could not search the demise sentence for the pair.
It’s unclear from court docket filings how DeCologero will plead, however the court docket scheduled the sentencing for a similar listening to. Geas faces an analogous listening to on Sept. 6.
One other inmate who acted as a lookout, Sean McKinnon, pleaded responsible in June to mendacity to FBI particular brokers about his function. McKinnon was given no further jail time and was returned to Florida to complete his supervised launch.
Bulger, who ran the largely Irish mob in Boston within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s, grew to become one of many nation’s most wished fugitives after fleeing Boston in 1994. He was captured at age 81 after greater than 16 years on the run and convicted in 2013 in a string of 11 killings and dozens of different gangland crimes.
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