<p>New details surrounding the inmates accused of beating to death James &#8220;Whitey” Bulger have emerged Monday, alleging that prisoners knew ahead of time the notorious Boston gangster and long-time FBI informant would soon be arriving at the penitentiary.</p>
<p>Sean McKinnon, 36, has been charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and making false statements to a federal agent. According to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/call-shows-inmates-knew-whitey-bulger-was-moving-to-prison/">The Hill</a>, McKinnon told his mother during a phone call that inmates were aware of Bulger transferring to the U.S. Penitentiary Hazleton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, in October 2018.</p>
<p>According to a transcript, U.S. Assistant Attorney Hannah Norwalk said McKinnon&#8217;s mother warned her son to stay away from Bulger.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t,&#8221; McKinnon said.</p>
<p>&#8220;You get in trouble,&#8221; the mother responded.</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry. Oh, I don&#8217;t plan it,&#8221; McKinnon said.</p>
<p>McKinnon is accused of serving as the lookout while Fotios Geas, also known as &#8220;Freddy,&#8221; 55, and Paul J. DeCologero, also known as &#8220;Pauly,&#8221; 48, were allegedly pounding Bulger&#8217;s head with a padlock stuffed inside a sock 12 hours after authorities transferred him from another facility.</p>
<p>McKinnon and Geas shared a cell at the time of Bulger&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>McKinnon&#8217;s defense attorney told the judge that her client calling his mother does not indicate he was involved in any plot to kill Bulger, adding that &#8220;the entire unit was alerted&#8221; about Bulger&#8217;s transfer.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact that his roommate was a henchman has nothing to do with him,&#8221; defense attorney Christine Bird said, according to the transcript. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t select his roommate.”</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact that he knew that doesn&#8217;t really tell the Court that he was involved in the conspiracy,&#8221; Bird added.</p>
<p>The Hill reports that Norwalk told the judge that security footage shows Geas and DeCologero entering Bulger&#8217;s cell around 6 a.m. At the same time, McKinnon sat at a table that looked straight at the other two men inside the cell for about seven minutes. Authorities found Bulger dead two hours later.</p>
<p>Norwalk said that DeCologero &#8220;said as soon as they saw Bulger come into the unit, they planned to kill him,&#8221; adding that he told this inmate witness that McKinnon was the lookout.</p>
<p>Geas and DeCologero received charges of allegedly aiding and abetting first-degree murder and assault, resulting in serious bodily injury. Authorities filed a separate charge against Geas for an alleged murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence.</p>
<p>Geas remains incarcerated at the Hazleton penitentiary, while authorities have housed DeCologero within the federal prison system.</p>
<p>McKinnon was on federal supervised release at the time of the indictment, but was arrested Thursday in Florida and received a separate charge for allegedly making false statements to a federal agent.</p>
<p>Bulger, who had already been serving two life terms in person for his role in 11 murders spanning several decades, died at 89.</p>
<p>Bulger’s death has been called a security failure for the federal prison system, and with the new revelations unsealed in court Monday, it has raised additional questions about how authorities handle prison transfers — especially with one of the nation’s most prolific crime lords.</p>
<p>NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/whitey-bulger-murder-case-twist-inmates-west-virginia-prison-knew-adva-rcna44502">reports</a> that a former Bureau of Prisons investigator said he would have “raised holy hell over” Bulger’s transfer into USP Hazleton’s general population.</p>
<p>“It’s just absurd that this happened,” Vito Maraviglia, the former investigator, told NBC.</p>
<p>WCVB <a href="https://www.wcvb.com/article/prosecution-prisoners-knew-whitey-bulger-would-be-transferred-conspired-to-kill-him/40970814#">reports</a> that Bugler’s family blames the federal prison system for allowing inmates to attack an elderly man who was in a wheelchair when he arrived.</p>
<p>Hank Brennan, an attorney for Bulger&#8217;s estate, told 5 Investigates that they “didn’t need affirmation to know that the system put a hit on James Bulger.”</p>
<p>“The DOJ has hidden this confirmatory information from the public and Mr. Bulger’s family for four years but covetously spews these facts publicly when it serves its interest to deprive a person of liberty,” Brennan said in a statement, according to WCVB. “The DOJ repeatedly proves it follows no moral compass and is strictly loyal to its own self-interest.&#8221;</p>

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