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Geas was the last of three inmates to plead guilty and be
sentenced after reaching deals in May to resolve charges filed
in 2022 over Bulger's death. Geas has been serving a life term
for the 2003 murders of a mob boss in Springfield,
Massachusetts, Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno, and an associate.
Geas' lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
Bulger lived a double life as one of Boston's most notorious
mobsters while also acting as a secret FBI informant. He went on
the run in 1994 after he was tipped off by his FBI handler about
a pending racketeering indictment against him and remained a
fugitive until he was captured in California in 2011.
Two years later, Bulger was convicted for 11 murders and other
offenses and sentenced to life in prison.
The 89-year-old's murder came shortly after he was transferred
from a prison in Florida to one in West Virginia.
Prosecutors said that on the morning of Oct. 30, 2018, Geas, an
associate of the Genovese crime family, and another inmate,
Massachusetts gangster Paul DeCologero, went to Bulger's cell.
Geas and Bulger got involved in a verbal altercation, and Geas
struck him in the head and assaulted him, prosecutors said. He
and DeCologero then placed Bulger’s body in his bunk bed and
covered him with bedding, prosecutors said.
Prison staff did not discover Bulger for nearly two hours. Other
inmates later reported that some men tied to the killing had
referred to Bulger as a "snitch," prosecutors said.
DeCologero last month was sentenced to 51 months in prison. A
third inmate, Geas' cell mate Sean McKinnon, was sentenced to
time served in June after pleading guilty to lying to an FBI
agent when he claimed he did not know what happened to Bulger.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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