Inmates accused of killing Whitey Bulger in prison agree to plea deals: 3 facts from gangster's FBI files

The inmates accused of killing one of America's most notorious gangsters in prison in 2018 reached plea deals this week, according to federal court filings.

James "Whitey" Bulger was killed in his cell by three inmates who knew the infamous mobster was being transferred to U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, one of the most violent federal prisons in the country, prosecutors have said.

Bulger, who was 89 at the time, was alive less than 12 hours before Fotios "Freddy" Geas, a Mafia hit man, along with Paul J.