Whitey Bulger

A former Mafia hitman was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger.

An inmate is set to be sentenced in the fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger after making a deal with prosecutors to change his plea from not guilty. Massachusetts gangster Paul J. DeCologero is scheduled to appear Thursday in U.S. District Court in northern West Virginia. Prosecutors said DeCologero and inmate Fotios “Freddy” Geas used a...

Federal prosecutors say they will not pursue the death penalty against two men charged with the prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. Prosecutors said in a court filing on Wednesday that in the event Fotios “Freddy” Geas, a former Mafia hitman, and Paul J. DeCologero, a Massachusetts gangster, are convicted of first-degree murder in Bulger’s beating, they...