Ex-Mafia Hitman Being Investigated For Hit on Mob Boss Whitey Bulger

Whitey Bulger was targeted for a mob hit according sources at the USP Hazelton Prison in West Virginia tell TMZ. According to the report, four men entered Bulger's cell and attacked the notorious mob boss shortly after 6 a.m. when was transferred there on Tuesday. 

The killers brutally beat Bulger with a lock in a sock and tried to gouge his eyes out using a shiv. The group of four men also attempted to cut out Bulger's tongue, a common punishment dispensed by the mob after someone 'rats' on their colleagues. 

Surveillance video caught the killers entering Bulger's cell and exiting a few minutes later with their clothes bloodied. The four men then went back to their cells where they changed out of their bloody clothing and went back to Bulger's cell with a mop and bucket intent on cleaning up the mess. 

The actual attack was not caught on video. Bulger's body was discovered just after 8 a.m.

Sources tell TMZ that prison officials believe the attack on Bulger was a mob retaliation because Bulger was considered a rat and informant who helped put away several other members of the mob. The New York Post reports that ex-Mafia hitman, Fotios "Freddy" Geas, is being eyed as the prime suspect for Bulger's death. Geas is currently serving out a life sentence at Hazelton for the 2003 murder of mob-boss Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno and his associate, Gary Westerman. 

Bulger once acted as the leader of the Winter Hill gang and was convicted in 2013 of participating in at least 11 murders in locations spanning across the country including Massachusetts, Florida and Oklahoma. 

Bulger was captured in Santa Monica, California in 2011 after spending some 16-years on the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was arrested with his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, who pleaded guilty in 2012 to identity fraud and harboring a fugitive. Greig is currently serving her sentenced at a federal women's prison in Minnesota. 


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