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

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Three inmates accused of killing Whitey Bulger agreed to plea deals this week, according to federal court filings.

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.

FBI tracked Bulger and ‘five different hoodlum groups in the Boston area’ for loan-sharking since the early '70s A 300-page report, which was released by the FBI in 2021, first mentions Whitey Bulger by name as part of a December 1974 law enforcement sting into loansharking in and around Boston.

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