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Mobster "Whitey" Bulger Gets Whacked:  Notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was killed in federal prison Tuesday according to multiple sources, although federal authorities are not yet calling it a murder.  Laurel Sweet and Joe Dwinell of the Associated Press report that Bulger was found dead in his cell one day after his transfer to a maximum security prison in West Virginia.  Bulger was convicted in 2013 of involvement in 11 murders in Massachusetts, Florida and Oklahoma.  In 2011 Bulger was arrested in Santa Moncia where he had been living under an assumed name in a rent-controlled apartment for 18 years.  As the former boss of the lucrative and violent Winter Hill Gang, Bulger cemented his crew's position as the most powerful in Boston by secretly serving as an informant for the FBI from the mid-1970s through the '90s. The deal protected him from prosecution while he gleaned key information about sting operations and rival gangsters.The New York Post is reporting that Bulger was killed by mob hitman Fotios "Freddy" Geas.  Geas has an open hatred for "rats" -- making Bulger a prime target.  According to an unnamed law enforcement source, because he whacked Bulger, Geas is  "a rich man now. He'll run any prison he's in."

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