Posted on 08/02/2024 3:22:50 PM PDT by Libloather
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - An inmate was sentenced to more than four years Thursday for his role in the 2018 fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in a troubled West Virginia federal prison.
Massachusetts gangster Paul J. DeCologero was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to an assault charge. He could have faced up to 10 years in prison. DeCologero was already serving a 25-year sentence handed down in 2006 after he was convicted of buying heroin used to try to kill a teenage girl.
Prosecutors initially had said DeCologero and inmate Fotios "Freddy" Geas used a lock attached to a belt to repeatedly hit the 89-year-old Bulger in the head hours after he arrived at USP Hazelton from another lockup in Florida. But on Thursday, both prosecutors and the defense said DeCologero only served as a lookout and had not physically assaulted Bulger.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh said the sentence was "fair, just and appropriate" and "strikes the balance the court is trying to seek."
DeCologero, 50, declined to speak when given the opportunity to address the court. Defense attorney Patrick Nash began by conveying an apology from DeCologero to Bulger's family as well as the inmate's own relatives.
Nash described DeCologero as the victim of an "abusive and neglectful" upbringing.
"Paul has had an incredibly difficult life," Nash said. "As a result of that, Paul is a person who is easily led. Anyone who shows him attention, he's easily led."
An uncle eventually took in DeCologero and made him part of a criminal organization, Nash said.
In Bulger's killing, "Paul was involved," Nash said. "He is guilty. But his role was limited."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Flower declined to comment after the sentencing.
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Mueller and Comey.
FBI Boston field office.
5.56mm
Retiree of IBM Research. We don’t DO iPhones.
Really, it wouldn’t be the same if I wasn’t driving. Loved listening to Howie and to Rush in the car. Nostalgia.
Howie is available as a podcase on iHeart
Thank you.
Bulger was beaten to death by a convict swinging a sock filled with padlocks.
It was a DOJ hit... similar to Epstein’s... once you have served your competency quotient, times up!
OUCH!
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They say they’ve been there for 70 years, so it’s still the same and pizza LOOKS the same.
Enrico’s is gone.
#15 Howie Carr: Happy 90th birthday to Stephen ‘The Rifleman’ Flemmi, Boston’s most prolific serial killer
https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/06/09/howie-carr-happy-90th-birthday-to-stephen-the-rifleman-flemmi-bostons-most-prolific-serial-killer/
Yeah, most likely killed to shut him up, but I don’t think anyone is mourning. Would have been interesting to learn his secrets though.
You’re friends with Howie?
My contact with him was limited to getting a personally autographed book at a bookstore!
And,at the trial he and I chatted briefly during the recesses.
They should have given him an extra helping of meat loaf in the prison cafeteria.
Well, Whitey disappeared from the Feds and even the Mafia that was likely looking for him.
Don't forget, Whitey killed rival mobsters then turned informant against the mob and they never forget.
This was simply a revenge killing.
It might have been very interesting to learn Whitey’s secrets. How many other FBI members colluded with Whitey and killed citizens? How many FBI are still out there killing and destroying lives? It’s not just the Boston office. Rumor has it some are in DC and even in rural Pennsylvania.
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