James “Whitey” Bulger’s ex-girlfriend was hit with a fresh indictment Monday – this time she’s accused of failing to provide information on anyone who helped harbor the Massachusetts mobster as he was on the lam for 16 years. Already imprisoned on counts of conspiracy to harbor a fugitive and identity fraud, Greig could have more jail time put on her eight-year sentence if convicted of the charge made against her Tuesday.
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Greig, 64, has refused to testify before a grand jury since December 2014.
Greig’s attorney has said in the past that Bulger was the love of Greig’s life, even though Bulger took another woman, Teresa Stanley, with him when he left Boston in 1994.
Bulger is serving a life sentence for his role in 11 murders while running the Boston Irish mob known as the Winter Hill Gang for two decades.
McCusker questioned the fairness of punishing Greig more harshly than some of Bulger’s underworld associates who were given short prison terms for murder in exchange for cooperating with the government.
Bulger, once an Federal Bureau of Investigation informant, fled Boston in 1995 and was on the run for 16 years.
Greig is expected to be transported from a federal penitentiary in Minnesota to Boston to be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Boston on the new charge, said Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz. No date has been set.
Greig, a former dental hygienist who grew up in Bulger’s neighborhood of South Boston, began dating the notorious gangster in the mid-1970s and joined him on the run early in 1995.
When authorities searched their Santa Monica apartment, they found more than $800,000 in cash and 30 weapons, most hidden in holes cut into the walls. The jury at Bulger’s trial issued a “no finding” in Davis’ death. The charge of criminal contempt carries no fixed maximum penalty.
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Her lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment. To date the families have not received any of that money. She helped him escape police capture by taking him to medical appointments and picking up his prescriptions under the ruse that she was his wife.
