WHITEY'S MOLL CATHERINE GREIG FLOGS HOME FOR $1

WHITEY

GREIG

MOB King pin James 'Whitey' Bulger's moll has sold her share in her family's Boston home for just $1 to her twin sister.
Catherine Greig, who went on the run with the one time leader of the Winter Hill Gang for 16-years now faces charges of harboring a fugitive.
So in a bid to protect herself from penalties imposed by the criminal or civil courts she sold the house and land in South Boston to Margaret McCusker, according to a filing with the Suffolk Registry of Deeds.
Greig also sought to protect her $343,700 home in Quincy by declaring it covered by the state's Homestead Act, the Boston Globe.
During Greig's detention hearing, her attorney, Kevin Reddington, told the judge that his client was a "kind, gentle person" who had a "loving personality."

But prosecutor's are investigating whether to bring more charges against her and Bulger for crimes allegedly committed in California.
They found cash, weapons and even a grenade recovered from the Santa Monica, California, apartment that she apparently shared with Bulger for 15 years while he was being hunted by the FBI.
Authorities also found several forms of false identifications for the pair.
Bulger, who was the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed, has pleaded not guilty to all counts against him, including his alleged role in 19 murders.
Prosecutors say Bulger was the head of a South Boston Irish gang before he fled an impending racketeering indictment in 1995.

At the same time, he was an FBI informant whose handler tipped him off about the charges. 

JAMES 'WHITEY' BULGER GETS PUBLIC DEFENDER

TOO POOR?

FORMER mob king pin James 'Whitey' Bulger is to get a public defender for his multiple murder trial, because he can't afford to pay for his own lawyer, a court ruled yesterday.
Despite being caught with more than $800,000 in cash, when his Santa Monica apartment was busted last week, the taxpayer will fund his defense.
His provisional attorney Peter Krupp, said authorities have seized all of Bulger's assets as the proceeds of illegal activity, leaving him with no way to pay for his defense.
And although prosecutors argued that his family including his brother and former Massachusetts Senate president, William Bulger could pay, he said no relatives had come forward and offered to help him financially.
A former member of the Boston underworld said: "Whitey's bound to have cash stashed away somewhere, but he's not going to make it easy for them. If they want to try him, he's going to make them pay through the nose for it."
Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler however agreed that the one time leader of Boston's notorious Winter Hill Gang couldn't afford a defense lawyer.
She said: "I find at this time that the defendant is unable to retain counsel privately."
So she appointed J.W. Carney Jr., a prominent Boston defense attorney, to represent him.
Carney has represented a long list of high-profile defendants, including John Salvi III, who was convicted of killing two people and wounding five others in a shooting rampage at two Planned Parenthood clinics in Brookline, Mass., in 1994.
He also represents Tarek Mehanna, a Sudbury man now awaiting trial in an alleged terror plot to shoot shoppers at U.S. malls, assassinate two politicians and kill American troops in Iraq.
Bulger, the former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, is accused of participating in 19 murders during his decades as one of Boston's most notorious gangsters.
Carney said it is too early to say whether he will ask for the trial to be moved out of Boston.

JAMES 'WHITEY' BULGER POSED AT OLD ALCATRAZ HOME

POSING HAPPILY

NOTORIOUS Boston mob king pin James 'Whitey' Bulger visited his former Alcatraz prison cell - just weeks after going on his 16-year-run from the FBI. 
Decked out in prison stripes he posed with his pal Theresa Stanley after touring the infamous prison where he, himself was once incarcerated from 1959 to 1963.  Speaking to the  NY Post the family friend who provided the pictures said the fugitive pair took time out from dodging the law to visit the site of Bulger's previous imprisonment almost 40 years before.
They added that the former leader of Boston's incredibly violent Winter Hill Gang and FBI informant was on the run for 16-years after an FBI tip off helped him escape.
During that time the master of evasion traveled the World, visiting London and Paris and other destinations before eventually settling in Santa Monica, Florida with his longtime 'moll' Catherine Greig.   
According to neighbors, the two did little to ever arouse suspicion, posing as two retirees holed up in a bland white 1970s apartment complex.
Now returned to Boston, he will face will a host of charges including murder and extortion.

FIRST PIC OF BOSTON MOB KINGPIN WHITEY BULGER

"WHITEY"

MR AND MRS CLAUS

MAYBE life on the lam was good for him, maybe it was the California Sunshine, but in this, his first picture since he was captured he doesn't look so bad for 81. But although he appeared smiling in court yesterday, neighbors of the man they knew as Charles Gasko claimed his health had deteriorated in recent years and he suffered from Alzheimer's disease and emphysema.

According to The Boston Herald: Two weeks ago, they posted a sign on their front door that read: Please do not knock at anytime, a neighbor said.

Januss Goodwin, 61, a retired religious worker who often visited the couple in their apartment, told the paper: "I thought it was because he was so ill that if somebody knocked it might mess up his head.

"I thought they were just nice people. Obviously, I was wrong."

She added his girlfriend, former dental hygienist Catherine Greig "always looked very pretty" but added that the couple never replaced their apartment furniture.

Bulger will now return to Boston where he will face murder charges for at least 19 people and a string of other offenses.

MOB BOSS WHITEY BULGER CAUGHT IN CALIFORNIA

DAPPER DON

THE DEPARTED

NOTORIOUS mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger has been sensationally captured after nearly 16-years on the run. 

The FBI caught up with  onetime pooh-bah of the notorious Winter Hill Gang - and inspiration for Jack Nicholson's whacked out gang chief in The Departed - living happily with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig, 60, in Santa Monica, CA. 

He was arrested without incident and it's thought he will now be returned to Boston where he is wanted for the murders of 19 men and women along with a litany of other charges. 

Bulger has been on the run for 16-years after fleeing in January 1995 when he was tipped by a former Boston FBI agent that he was about to be indicted.
Nicknamed ‘Whitey’ because of his shock of bright platinum hair, grew up in a gritty South Boston housing project and spent time in the notorious Alcatraz prison when he a youngster.  

On his release he rose to the top of the city's violent Winter Hill Gang, a largely Irish mob that ran loan-sharking, gambling and drug rackets in the city.

But what was unknown for many years, was at the same time as his reign of terror on the streets, Bulger was a top echelon FBI informant who provided information on his gang's main rival, the New England Mob. 

Using his unique position he tightened his vice like grip on the city's underworld, until the extent of his crimes and his close relationship with the G-men became clear. 

Just as the were about to swoop he was warned by John Connolly Jr, an FBI agent who had made Bulger an FBI informant 20 years earlier.

Connolly was convicted of racketeering in May 2002 for protecting Bulger and his cohort, Stephen ‘The Rifleman’ Flemmi, also an FBI informant.

He became a huge source of embarrassment for the agency as they battled a public perception that it had not tried very hard to find him.

Now it looks like he will finally face justice after a tip from the public finally revealed his whereabouts.  

It appears a high profile campaign, including a TV ad been launched during programs popular with women roughly Greig's age - pointing out that she had several plastic surgeries and regularly went to beauty salons, worked. 

Lets just hope they don't lose him again.
* CAPTURE BRINGS A SMILE TO BOSTON HERALD MAN
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