Whitey Bulger walked into the mob-infested Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia with a target on his back, but insiders told The National ENQUIRER that the federal government drove the final nails into the Boston gangster’s coffin! Sources claimed that the feds needed to stop him from going public about rampant corruption inside the FBI and Department of Justice! Terrified the notorious mob informant could squeal at any time, feds arranged for Bulger’s transfer to Hazelton, where two other inmates were beaten to death just this year! Read on for details of how the feds allegedly had Whitey whacked, and click here for more true crime news….
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“He was sentenced to
life in prison, but as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence has been changed to the death penalty,” Bulger’s former defense attorney,
J.W. Carney Jr. (left), said in a statement.
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Surveillance video shows four executioners entering Bulger’s cell, and then walking out drenched in blood after bludgeoning him with a padlock stuffed inside a sock. The assassins mysteriously had two full hours to not only commit the murder — but clean up Bulger’s blood-soaked cell afterward.
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One of Bulger’s prison pals told The ENQUIRER the cost to rub out the geriatric con came at a discount. “You can get somebody killed in there for a couple hundred dollars,” said the prison snitch, adding that the job was likely “farmed out” to jailhouse gang goons.
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The top suspect is fellow Massachusetts mob hit man Fotios “Freddy” Geas. He’s serving a life sentence at Hazelton for the 2003 murder of a rival gangster and is known for his burning hatred of mob rats.
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Bulger went on the lam in 1995 after FBI contacts tipped him off about an imminent arrest. But
James "Whitey" Bulger wasn’t captured until 2011 — and criminal experts believe the feds didn’t try their hardest to find him for fear he’d expose their secrets!
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The FBI has publicly stated they’re looking at Bulger’s years as an informant as the key to his gruesome death. But investigative author Janet Uhlar (left), who served on the federal jury that convicted Bulger, suspects he was killed because he would have exposed corruption among federal investigators.
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“Going into the trial, I anticipated being disturbed by Bulger’s criminality,” said Janet, whose book “The Truth Be Damned” is a fictionalized account of how several murderers were given sweetheart deals to testify against Bulger. “What I didn’t anticipate was the depth of corruption with the Boston FBI [and] U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
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But Bulger’s brutal execution didn’t disturb his victims’ loved ones. “There’s one less scumbag on this earth,” said Patricia Donahue (left), whose husband, Michael, was gunned down by Bulger in 1982.
“He was sentenced to
life in prison, but as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence has been changed to the death penalty,” Bulger’s former defense attorney,
J.W. Carney Jr. (left), said in a statement.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Surveillance video shows four executioners entering Bulger’s cell, and then walking out drenched in blood after bludgeoning him with a padlock stuffed inside a sock. The assassins mysteriously had two full hours to not only commit the murder — but clean up Bulger’s blood-soaked cell afterward.
Photo credit: Getty Images
One of Bulger’s prison pals told The ENQUIRER the cost to rub out the geriatric con came at a discount. “You can get somebody killed in there for a couple hundred dollars,” said the prison snitch, adding that the job was likely “farmed out” to jailhouse gang goons.
Photo credit: Getty Images
The top suspect is fellow Massachusetts mob hit man Fotios “Freddy” Geas. He’s serving a life sentence at Hazelton for the 2003 murder of a rival gangster and is known for his burning hatred of mob rats.
Bulger went on the lam in 1995 after FBI contacts tipped him off about an imminent arrest. But
James "Whitey" Bulger wasn’t captured until 2011 — and criminal experts believe the feds didn’t try their hardest to find him for fear he’d expose their secrets!
The FBI has publicly stated they’re looking at Bulger’s years as an informant as the key to his gruesome death. But investigative author Janet Uhlar (left), who served on the federal jury that convicted Bulger, suspects he was killed because he would have exposed corruption among federal investigators.
“Going into the trial, I anticipated being disturbed by Bulger’s criminality,” said Janet, whose book “The Truth Be Damned” is a fictionalized account of how several murderers were given sweetheart deals to testify against Bulger. “What I didn’t anticipate was the depth of corruption with the Boston FBI [and] U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
But Bulger’s brutal execution didn’t disturb his victims’ loved ones. “There’s one less scumbag on this earth,” said Patricia Donahue (left), whose husband, Michael, was gunned down by Bulger in 1982.
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