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 Fugitive accused mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger is expected to return to Boston -- the city he is accused of terrorizing for decades and fleeing in 1995 -- in the next few days after waiving extradition in a California courtroom on Thursday. 
 
 FBI agents arrested the 81-year-old Bulger and longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig, 60, in Santa Monica, Calif., late Wednesday after receiving a tip and setting up surveillance. The pair had been on the run since 1995. 
 
 Mona Edwards 
 
 The FBI says agents found $800,000 in cash during a search of Bulger's Santa Monica apartment following his arrest. 
 
 In a Los Angeles federal courtroom on Thursday, NewsCenter 5's Jack Harper reported that Bulger gave a thumbs-up as he walked into the court, and appeared relaxed and jovial and was even chatting and joking with other defendants in the courtroom before his hearing. 
 
 Bulger recognized members of the media who had flown in from Boston and mocked them as they took notes, Harper said. 
 
 Greig, however, appeared more stoic. The two were seated about 10 feet apart in the courtroom. 
 
 Harper said Bulger's demeanor changed when the magistrate entered the courtroom. Bulger answered the magistrate's questions sternly and directly, and readily admitted he was indeed the man the FBI has been searching for worldwide for 16 years. 
 
 When asked if he understood the charges he was facing, Bulger said he had not had a chance to read the list, but said he was familiar with the charges. 
 
 Bulger filed an affidavit confirming how he will pay for a lawyer, and it was sealed by the court. 
 
 Mona Edwards 
 
 Newly-unsealed court documents detail some of the early travels of Bulger and Greig following Bulger's 1995 indictment. 
 
 In an affidavit dated April 25, 1997, then-FBI Special Agent Charles Gianturco writes that Bulger and Greig spent time in New York on Long Island and in Grand Isle, La., in 1995 and 1996. 
 
 According to the affidavit, Bulger and Greig checked into a hotel under the names "Mr. and Mrs. Tom Baxter" in the fall of 1995, and that Bulger had also used that name when he befriended a man in neighboring Selden told him he was a merchant seaman. 
 
 The FBI said that they would not release booking photos of the pair, but a law enforcement source provided WCVB-TV with a copy Thursday afternoon. In the picture, Bulger had a full beard and mustache, glasses and was bald except for hair on the sides. He was wearing a white undershirt, a white buttoned shirt with no collar and a white hooded sweatshirt. 
 
 In the picture, Bulger has a big grin on his face. 
 
 Greig has white hair pulled back in what appears to be a ponytail, and was wearing a pink V-neck shirt. She was not smiling in the picture. 
 
 The pair had lived in the same Santa Monica apartment for 15 years and paid the rent in cash, according to property managers. 
 
 The property managers, who asked their names not be used because they didn't want additional attention from the media, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the couple, who they knew as Charles and Carol Gasko, moved in around 1996. 
 
 The managers said the pair always paid their $1,145 a month rent on time. 
 
 Federal agents arrested Bulger without incident at the modest three-story Princess Eugenia apartment complex just blocks from the Pacific Ocean on Santa Monica Beach on Wednesday night. 
 
 On Thursday, FBI agents hauled ammunition and bags labeled as containing weapons out of the apartment. 
 
 One clear plastic bag removed Thursday morning contained boxes of .357 Magnum bullets, and another bag was labeled miscellaneous firearms and accessories. 
 
 Numerous other pieces of evidence in paper bags were also carried out and placed in a law enforcement truck. 
 
 Bulger's arrest caps an international search for the storied South Boston mobster with a $2 million bounty on his head who fled the city in 1995. Bulger skipped town just as he was about to indicted on charges ranging from murder and conspiracy to commit murder, to narcotics distribution, extortion and money laundering. 
 
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 With a crime career dating back to the 1950s, Bulger was wanted in connection with 19 murders, and is a suspect in dozens more. He served for decades as the head of the "Winter Hill" crime gang, which specialized in drug dealing, gambling and loan sharking, federal prosecutors said. 
 
 Former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted of racketeering in May 2002 after federal prosecutors said he tipped Bulger to the impending indictments, triggering Bulger's flight. 
 
 Bulger's arrest came on the heels of a newly launched FBI campaign focusing on Greig, 60, who is facing charges of harboring a fugitive after living life on the run with Bulger for years. 
 
 Steven Martinez, FBI's assistant director in charge in Los Angeles, said the arrest followed a tip that stemmed from the campaign, which asked the public, particularly women, to be on the lookout for Greig, stressing that she frequented hair salons and had a love for animals. 
 
 Bulger, nicknamed "Whitey" for a shock of white hair but known to his close associates only as "Jimmy," grew up in South Boston's tough housing projects during the Depression and first served time in Alcatraz for bank robbery in 1956. 
 
 While his younger brother, William, was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature, later serving as the powerful Senate president for years, Whitey returned to Boston in 1965 and quickly became a top lieutenant under Somerville gangster Howie Winter, boss of the Winter Hill gang. 
 
 His associate, gangster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, became an informant in the mid-1960s for Boston FBI agents who were targeting the New England Mafia. Flemmi eventually connected with Winter and Bulger in the early 1970s and, prosecutors said, Bulger also ended up cutting a deal with former FBI agent Connolly, a boyhood friend from South Boston, providing information on the Mafia in exchange for protection. 
 
 In the late 1970s, the FBI indicted more than 20 people, including Winter, in a horse-race-fixing scheme, opening the door for Bulger to seize control of Winter's crime operation. 
 
 Bulger did end up helping the FBI bring down Mafia crime boss Gennaro Angiulo, but under the protection of the FBI, prosecutors said, Bulger's crime operation then began a lawless killing spree in the early 1980s that spiraled out of control, triggering the slayings of two World Jai Alai officials, Roger Wheeler and John Callahan, over gambling operations. 
 
 With federal officials about to indict him in connection with those cases, Bulger fled in 1995, taking his girlfriend with him. For years, agents searched the world over for the pair, following up on leads that had Bulger spotted anywhere from Italy to London and Mexico. He eventually became one of the agency's sought after criminals, second only to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. 
 
 Time and again, Bulger eluded capture, leading skeptics to speculate that the FBI did not really want to apprehend him because of all he knew about the agency and its use of criminal informants. 
 
 In 2003, frustrated federal officials investigating the Bulger crime case blasted the agency for using Bulger and his associates as informants. They called the Bulger story "one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement." 
 
 If convicted on all the counts pending against him, Bulger could be sentenced to life in prison. Greig could be imprisoned for at least five years. 
 
 Copyright 2011 by TheBostonChannel.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ||||| Gangland serial slayer James "Whitey" Bulger is back on the move. 
 
 The 89-year-old notorious South Boston mob boss convicted of being complicit in 11 murders in Massachusetts, Florida and Oklahoma has been relocated again by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to its high-security penitentiary USP Hazelton in West Virginia, according to the BOP's inmate locator. 
 
 The facility houses 1,277 maximum-security inmates and is located in Bruceton Mills. 
 
 It is unclear why Bulger, who is serving life, is suddenly being moved around. Though his health issues have been well documented, Hazelton is not a federal medical center for inmates requiring long-term care. 
 
 The Herald reported last week he had been relocated from a penitentiary in Florida to one in Oklahoma, which often serves as a temporary stop for inmates in transit. 
 
 Bulger's dark life story has inspired several films, including "The Departed," which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2006. 
 
 He was convicted in U.S. District Court in South Boston in 2013. 
 
 He and girlfriend Catherine Greig were captured in 2011 while living in Santa Monica, Calif. 
 
 Greig, 67, remains incarcerated at a federal women's prison in Minnesota. She is scheduled to be released on Sept. 29, 2020. 
 
 Greig pleaded guilty in 2012 to identity fraud and harboring the fugitive Bulger. She pleaded guilty to criminal contempt in 2016 for refusing to cooperate with authorities against him. 
 
 Greig is serving an eight-year sentence. ||||| For one of the FBI's most wanted men, legendary Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger appeared to live an open, somewhat routine life a few blocks from the beach in Santa Monica. 
 
 John Weiskopf, 63, who lives across the street from where Bulger, 81, was staying, recalled seeing the man, who turned out to be the famed crime boss, and his girlfriend in the neighborhood. 
 
 "They've been here a while," said Weiskopf, a screenwriter, film producer and novelist. "I would see them out here walking their dog. They were very unassuming." 
 
 Photos: The hunt for James "Whitey" Bulger 
 
 The FBI had been seeking Bulger since he fled Boston in 1994 as he was being sought in connection with at least 19 murders and other charges. He and longtime companion Catherine Greig, 60, were taken into custody after authorities received a tip, the FBI said. 
 
 Bulger and Greig are scheduled to appear in federal court in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday. 
 
 Authorities seized weapons and a large amount of cash inside their apartment, sources told the Los Angeles Times. 
 
 It's unclear how long they lived on 3rd Street in Santa Monica, but if they were hiding, they were doing so in plain sight of neighbors. 
 
 "The seemed normal," said an attorney who lived in the Princess Eugenia complex, where Bulger and Greig had an apartment on the third floor. ||||| Federal prosecutors have for months unsuccessfully pressured James “Whitey” Bulger’s girlfriend, Catherine Greig, to testify before a grand jury investigating whether other people helped the notorious South Boston gangster during his 16 years as a fugitive. 
 
 On Tuesday, the government upped the stakes for Greig, 64, by obtaining a new indictment charging her with criminal contempt, which could keep her in prison for many more years if she is convicted. 
 
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 The new charge comes after Greig refused to testify before the grand jury, despite being found in civil contempt last December and warned that for every day she stayed quiet, another day would be tagged onto the eight-year sentence she is already serving for helping Bulger evade capture. 
 
 “Catherine Greig has yet again failed to do the right thing,” Joseph R. Bonavolonta, the acting head of the FBI’s Boston office, said in a statement Tuesday. “Her refusal to testify has hindered the FBI’s efforts to seek justice for the victims of [Bulger’s] crimes.” 
 
 Greig’s attorney accused the government of vindictiveness and harassment for bringing the new charge. He and Greig’s sister said it’s wrong for the government to try to punish Greig more severely than some of Bulger’s underworld associates who were involved in brutal murders, but were granted leniency in exchange for cooperating with authorities. 
 
 “She knows nothing,” Greig’s twin sister, Margaret McCusker of South Boston, said during a brief telephone interview Tuesday. “There is no reason for her to talk to anybody because she doesn’t know anything.” 
 
 McCusker questioned the fairness of bringing a new charge against her sister, referring to plea deals that allowed one Bulger associate to walk free after serving only 12 years for 20 murders, and another to serve only five years in prison for being an accessory to five murders. 
 
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 “My sister may eventually be spending as much time in prison for being with someone she loved as his associates who killed and/or buried people,” McCusker said. “That’s nuts.” 
 
 However, the widow of one of Bulger’s victims said she was happy the government was increasing pressure on Greig in an effort to track Bulger’s hidden assets and determine whether others helped the gangster elude a worldwide manhunt while he was a longtime fixture on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. 
 
 “I would like her to tell all,” said Patricia Donahue, whose husband, Michael, was shot to death by Bulger in 1982 while giving a ride home to a friend being targeted by Bulger. “Tell exactly what went on when they were on the run. Where is his money?” 
 
 Globe Staff File Whitey Bulger and Catherine Greig walked together with her two poodles in 1988. 
 
 Attorney Kevin Reddington, who represents Greig, said her only crime was living with Bulger while he was a fugitive. He said she has repeatedly been brought back from a federal prison in Minnesota to appear before the grand jury in Boston even though she has said she has no information and will not testify. 
 
 “She has great respect for the court, but she does have contempt for the federal government for using its power to vindictive ends,” Reddington said. “She will not be a tool of the government’s efforts to further harass people, whether family or friends.” 
 
 US Attorney Carmen Ortiz said in a statement Tuesday the new indictment seeks to hold Greig accountable for refusing to comply with a judge’s order to testify. 
 
 “The grand jury is entitled to her testimony and flouting a federal court’s order has substantial consequences,” Ortiz said. 
 
 No date has been set for Greig’s arraignment on the new charge in federal court in Boston. 
 
 The one-count indictment says that US District Judge Denise J. Casper, who presided over Bulger’s 2013 racketeering trial, issued an order Nov. 20, 2014, compelling Greig to testify before the grand jury “regarding an investigation into third parties who assisted and harbored” Bulger while he was a fugitive from 1995 to 2011. It alleges that Greig willfully disobeyed the order from Dec. 9, 2014, to Sept. 22, 2015. 
 
 Greig did not cite her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, according to Reddington, who said Greig refused to testify because, “if it’s not what the government wants to hear you are going to get indicted for perjury.” 
 
 Reddington said he will seek a speedy trial on the new charge and “let a jury decide whether this is vindictiveness on the part of the government or an act of criminal contempt, which I don’t believe it is.” 
 
 Bulger, a longtime FBI informant who paid bribes to agents who leaked him information, was tipped to flee by a corrupt former FBI agent just before his 1995 indictment. Greig, a former dental hygienist who grew up in South Boston and began dating Bulger in the mid-1970s, joined him on the run in early 1995 after he dropped another longtime girlfriend off at home. 
 
 Bulger and Greig were arrested in June 2011 in Santa Monica, Calif., living in a rent-controlled apartment two blocks from the beach. FBI agents found $822,000 in cash and 30 guns hidden in the walls of their apartment. 
 
 Greig pleaded guilty in June 2012 to conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, conspiracy to commit identity fraud, and identity fraud. A federal appeals court later rejected her claim that her sentence was excessive, concluding that she helped Bulger evade detection by using false identities, purchasing his medications, running daily errands, and paying their bills. She is serving her sentence at a federal penitentiary in Waseca, Minn, where she trains service dogs. 
 
 Bulger, 86, is serving a life sentence at a federal penitentiary in Florida for participating in 11 murders while operating a sprawling criminal organization from the 1970s to the 1990s. He was ordered to forfeit $25.2 million to the government and prosecutors have vowed to track his assets and split them among the families of Bulger’s victims. 
 
 In letters from jail since his capture, Bulger described his time on the run with Greig as a 16-year honeymoon and complained about her stiff sentence. 
 
 “She did what all the cops, prisons, and courts couldn’t,” Bulger wrote to his longtime friend, Richard Sunday. “Got me to live crime free 16 years — for this they should give her a medal.” 
 
 Read the Greig indictment below:
– Whitey Bulger is going home after 16 years on the lam. The 81-year-old mob fugitive appeared in court today with girlfriend Catherine Greig. Both waived their right to a hearing, meaning they will soon be transported back to Boston to face charges. Bulger, considered the model for Jack Nicholson's character in the Departed, seemed relaxed in court, reports CNN. Asked by the judge whether he had read the charges against him, Bulger said, "I got them all here. It will take me quite a while to finish these. But I know them all pretty well.” (They include multiple counts of murder; Greig is charged with harboring a fugitive.) Other developments: FBI agents found $800,000 in cash and about 30 weapons in the apartment Bulger and Greig shared quietly in Santa Monica for about 15 years, reports the Los Angeles Times. A neighbor tells the paper she thought Bulger had dementia. "They were a handsome couple, but they were kind of mysterious," another neighbor tells the AP. Boston's WCVB has a photo of a smiling Bulger.