James “Whitey” Bulger’s girlfriend Catherine Greig is facing new charges for allegedly refusing to identify anyone who may have helped the couple while they were on the run for 16 years.
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Greig is already serving an eight-year sentence for conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud.
“Catherine Greig has yet again failed to do the right thing”, Joseph R. Bonavolonta, the acting special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston field division, said in a statement. Her silence was big as prosecutors are still seeking justice for the victims of Bulger.
The indictment alleges that from December 2014 through Tuesday, Greig disobeyed an order from U.S. District Judge Denise Casper to testify before a grand jury in an investigation into “third parties who assisted and harbored” Bulger while he was a fugitive. After 17 years on the run, Bulger was found by police in 2011 in Santa Monica, California. But Depp, who sympathetically played John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies”, says he sought to find Bulger’s humanity.
After being convicted for playing a role in 11 murderers, Bulger was sentenced to life in prison. In a joint interview with Cooper, the director of “Crazy Heart” and “Out of the Furnace“, the two discussed the challenges of portraying a folk-hero criminal who has, as Cooper said, “left a real emotional scar on the city of Boston”.
Coyne said, “That’s why some would argue it seems punitive, at some point she has made her deal, the government was satisfied with it”. She could face additional jail time as a result of the new charge.
“Other than living with Mr. Bulger for that number of years, she has done nothing wrong in her life at all“. 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.
When Bulger initially fled, he took a woman he had been involved with for decades, Teresa Stanley, with him.
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His trial detailed his corrupt relationship with federal agents and prosecutors in Boston who turned a blind eye to his crimes in return for information they could use against the Italian mafia.
