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Freddy Geas, eyed in ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s killing, ‘hated rats’

When private investigator Ted McDonough heard that Freddy Geas was suspected by authorities of taking part in the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger, he knew immediately why Geas might have done it.

“Freddy hated rats,” said McDonough, using the slang for criminal informants. McDonough had become friendly with Geas while working for him as an investigator.

“Freddy hated guys who abused women. Whitey was a rat who killed women. It’s probably that simple,” McDonough said.

Fotios “Freddy” Geas — Mafia hitman, career criminal, prison lifer — did not like informants, and was almost certainly well aware of the fact that Bulger had led a charmed life for a long time as an informant for the FBI.

People with knowledge of the investigation said that Bulger had requested to be housed in general population at the federal prison in Hazelton, W. Va., where he had just been transferred from a federal prison in Florida after a brief stop in Oklahoma.

Geas is serving a life sentence at the prison in Hazelton for his role in the assassination of Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno, the onetime head of the Mafia in Springfield, after both the man who ordered him to kill Bruno and the hitman he dispatched to do the murder turned on him and testified against him.

People familiar with the investigation suggest that Bulger was murdered by more than one of his fellow inmates, and that Geas didn’t dispute his role in the killing.

David Hoose, the lawyer who initially represented Geas in the Mafia killings, said he was not surprised to hear that Geas didn’t dispute his role in Bulger’s killing and refused to identify a possible accomplice.

“He wouldn’t rat on anybody,” Hoose said, “and he had no respect for anyone who would.”

 
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Tom Servo said:
Giants great Willie McCovey passed away at age 80.
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Rest in peace Stretch

ETA:  I didn't live here when they played for the Giants but my perception as a long-time fan is while Mays was revered, McCovey was loved.  Mays came with the club from NY but McCovey came up during the Giants' second year in SF.

Mac always spoke with a smile in his voice.  I'm glad I got to see his final appearance at the ballpark last month when he awarded the annual Willie Mac Award for the most inspirational Giant of the year to reliever Will Smith.

He was a tremendous hitter before his legs gave out.  His stats suffer a bit because his prime years came during the era of pitchers' dominance in the late 60s.  512 HRs is still an impressive tally, especially with half of his games in the dismal confines of the Stick.  He's top 20 on the all time list now but was #7 at the time of his retirement.

 
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Eephus said:
Rest in peace Stretch

ETA:  I didn't live here when they played for the Giants but my perception as a long-time fan is while Mays was revered, McCovey was loved.  Mays came with the club from NY but McCovey came up during the Giants' second year in SF.

Mac always spoke with a smile in his voice.  I'm glad I got to see his final appearance at the ballpark last month when he awarded the annual Willie Mac Award for the most inspirational Giant of the year to reliever Will Smith.

He was a tremendous hitter before his legs gave out.  His stats suffer a bit because his prime years came during the era of pitchers' dominance in the late 60s.  512 HRs is still an impressive tally, especially with half of his games in the dismal confines of the Stick.  He's top 20 on the all time list now but was #7 at the time of his retirement.
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https://images.psacard.com/s3/cu-psa/cardfacts/1966-topps-550-willie-mccovey-33143.jpg?h=1000&format=png&s.roundcorners=10

 
Tom Servo said:
Giants great Willie McCovey passed away at age 80.
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Just as i'd like to see pitch counts for baseball's old 50s & 60s rubber arms like Don Drysdale & Bob Veale, I would love to see some exit velocity #s on McCovey. Though a Sox fan first, i followed the Giants as closely as possible as a kid because Willie Mays was my deity. The thing i remember hearing most about the younger Willie is that pitchers were literally afraid to pitch to him and even the most lackadaisical first baseman like **** Stuart or Mike Epstein (1B was where DHs played before DH) would pay deadly attention in the field when McCovey was at bat. His low liners were as hot as his biggest bashes and could actually be lethal. Mays, McCovey, Rice (and now li'l Mookie) were the quickest bats i ever seen and i can just see Stretch playing cloud2cloud fungo for eternity. RIP -

 
wikkidpissah said:
Just as i'd like to see pitch counts for baseball's old 50s & 60s rubber arms like Don Drysdale & Bob Veale, I would love to see some exit velocity #s on McCovey. Though a Sox fan first, i followed the Giants as closely as possible as a kid because Willie Mays was my deity. The thing i remember hearing most about the younger Willie is that pitchers were literally afraid to pitch to him and even the most lackadaisical first baseman like **** Stuart or Mike Epstein (1B was where DHs played before DH) would pay deadly attention in the field when McCovey was at bat. His low liners were as hot as his biggest bashes and could actually be lethal. Mays, McCovey, Rice (and now li'l Mookie) were the quickest bats i ever seen and i can just see Stretch playing cloud2cloud fungo for eternity. RIP -
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as crushing as Kingman, but a much better hitter.  

 
Sinn Fein said:
Freddy Geas, eyed in ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s killing, ‘hated rats’

When private investigator Ted McDonough heard that Freddy Geas was suspected by authorities of taking part in the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger, he knew immediately why Geas might have done it.

“Freddy hated rats,” said McDonough, using the slang for criminal informants. McDonough had become friendly with Geas while working for him as an investigator.

“Freddy hated guys who abused women. Whitey was a rat who killed women. It’s probably that simple,” McDonough said.

Fotios “Freddy” Geas — Mafia hitman, career criminal, prison lifer — did not like informants, and was almost certainly well aware of the fact that Bulger had led a charmed life for a long time as an informant for the FBI.

People with knowledge of the investigation said that Bulger had requested to be housed in general population at the federal prison in Hazelton, W. Va., where he had just been transferred from a federal prison in Florida after a brief stop in Oklahoma.

Geas is serving a life sentence at the prison in Hazelton for his role in the assassination of Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno, the onetime head of the Mafia in Springfield, after both the man who ordered him to kill Bruno and the hitman he dispatched to do the murder turned on him and testified against him.

People familiar with the investigation suggest that Bulger was murdered by more than one of his fellow inmates, and that Geas didn’t dispute his role in the killing.

David Hoose, the lawyer who initially represented Geas in the Mafia killings, said he was not surprised to hear that Geas didn’t dispute his role in Bulger’s killing and refused to identify a possible accomplice.

“He wouldn’t rat on anybody,” Hoose said, “and he had no respect for anyone who would.”
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got some true rat treatment as they even tried to cut his tongue out. 

 
wikkidpissah said:
Just as i'd like to see pitch counts for baseball's old 50s & 60s rubber arms like Don Drysdale & Bob Veale, I would love to see some exit velocity #s on McCovey. Though a Sox fan first, i followed the Giants as closely as possible as a kid because Willie Mays was my deity. The thing i remember hearing most about the younger Willie is that pitchers were literally afraid to pitch to him and even the most lackadaisical first baseman like **** Stuart or Mike Epstein (1B was where DHs played before DH) would pay deadly attention in the field when McCovey was at bat. His low liners were as hot as his biggest bashes and could actually be lethal. Mays, McCovey, Rice (and now li'l Mookie) were the quickest bats i ever seen and i can just see Stretch playing cloud2cloud fungo for eternity. RIP -
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I remember Mays saying once that if he hit a sure double, he make it a single. Otherwise they would just walk McCovey

 
gopherit said:
One of the top 5 Giants of all time.  RIP.
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It's a tough call between Stretch, Hubbell and Marichal for #5.  Amos Rusie has more career WAR than any of those three but that's largely a factor of him throwing 500 IP seasons.

I don't trust defensive WAR for old-timers too much because the underlying data is pretty sparse.  If you zero out McCovey's negative defensive wins, he slots in above the three pitchers but is still well behind Mays, Bonds, Ott and Matty as all-time Giants.   Ott and Eddie Collins are probably the two most underrated 20th century greats.

 
Eephus said:
It's a tough call between Stretch, Hubbell and Marichal for #5.  Amos Rusie has more career WAR than any of those three but that's largely a factor of him throwing 500 IP seasons.

I don't trust defensive WAR for old-timers too much because the underlying data is pretty sparse.  If you zero out McCovey's negative defensive wins, he slots in above the three pitchers but is still well behind Mays, Bonds, Ott and Matty as all-time Giants.   Ott and Eddie Collins are probably the two most underrated 20th century greats.
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Stretch & Marichal in, Frankenstein clear-ly out. 

 
Eephus said:
It's a tough call between Stretch, Hubbell and Marichal for #5.  Amos Rusie has more career WAR than any of those three but that's largely a factor of him throwing 500 IP seasons.

I don't trust defensive WAR for old-timers too much because the underlying data is pretty sparse.  If you zero out McCovey's negative defensive wins, he slots in above the three pitchers but is still well behind Mays, Bonds, Ott and Matty as all-time Giants.   Ott and Eddie Collins are probably the two most underrated 20th century greats.
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Don't have a problem at all on this list.  Mays, Bonds and Ott are definitely the top three all-time Giants.

 
rockaction said:
He retired, I think, and not due to ratings. 

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/04/reasons-why-craig-ferguson-leaving-cbs
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When he claims he didn't want Letterman's gig, even though his contract had that very prize as a big part of it, then I'm not buying that for a minute.  

He peaked in 2007 with an average of 2 million viewers.  Then went downhill from there, falling to 1.35 mil in 2014.  Meanwhile Seth Meyers was at 2 mil at the same time.

It was nice of the CBS to let him say he was "retiring" or whatever, instead of firing him.

 
Rodrigo Duterte said:
When he claims he didn't want Letterman's gig, even though his contract had that very prize as a big part of it, then I'm not buying that for a minute.  

He peaked in 2007 with an average of 2 million viewers.  Then went downhill from there, falling to 1.35 mil in 2014.  Meanwhile Seth Meyers was at 2 mil at the same time.

It was nice of the CBS to let him say he was "retiring" or whatever, instead of firing him.
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Okay, I don't really care. At all. It was just a response to an iFriend.  

 
Rodrigo Duterte said:
Then why is it gone?
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He was wildly inventive for several years, bringing pantomine & puppets into his opens, great sketches (his Prince Charles bits & Murder She Wrotes literally had me rolling) and was the most natural interviewer of any latenite host i've seen. Then, about five years in, Ferguson responded to years of frustrations over budget (the pantomimes were originally his response to the network refusing to allow him a band) by building a gay robot skeleton sidekick with whom he spent his last few years riffing back & forth, to the exclusion of most of the sketch work & stuff  til deciding to give it up when Letterman did.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
He was wildly inventive for several years, bringing pantomine & puppets into his opens, great sketches (his Prince Charles bits & Murder She Wrotes literally had me rolling) and was the most natural interviewer of any latenite host i've seen. Then, about five years in, Ferguson responded to years of frustrations over budget (the pantomimes were originally his response to the network refusing to allow him a band) by building a gay robot skeleton sidekick with whom he spent his last few years riffing back & forth, to the exclusion of most of the sketch work & stuff  til deciding to give it up when Letterman did.
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He’s was awesome and the women guests often threw themselves at him. Fun to watch. 

RIP Craig Ferguson.

 
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RIP David Pearson.  One of NASCAR's greats from its Golden Age if the 60s and 70s.  The Silver Fox doesn't have impressive career wins or championship records because he didn't run all the races back then.  But he was a force to be reckoned with wherever he raced

 
Eephus said:
RIP David Pearson.  One of NASCAR's greats from its Golden Age if the 60s and 70s.  The Silver Fox doesn't have impressive career wins or championship records because he didn't run all the races back then.  But he was a force to be reckoned with wherever he raced
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RIP Silver Fox :drive:

 
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