Whitey Bulger's girlfriend is transferred from federal prison to halfway house on Cape Cod to finish her sentence for helping infamous mob boss
- Catherine Greig was transferred from prison in Minnesota on Wednesday
- She will spend the next year in Cap Cod halfway house prior to probation
- Was convicted of harboring fugitive for helping James 'Whitey' Bulger flee
- Bulger was murdered behind bars in October in suspected gangland hit
- He was the notorious crime boss who ruled Boston with iron fist for decades
- Victims speculate that Greig knows where Bulger hid his ill-gotten fortune
The girlfriend of notorious crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger has been transferred from federal prison to serve the remainder of her sentence in a halfway house on Cape Cod.
Catherine Greig, 68, was flown from lockup in Waseca, Minnesota into Boston on Wednesday for transfer to the Barnstable County halfway house, where she will spend a year before going on probation, the Boston Herald reported.
Greig lived on the lam with Bulger for 16 years, before they were arrested together in Santa Monica, California in 2011.
While serving a double life sentence for murder, Bulger was killed behind bars at age 89 in October, in a suspected gangland hit by other inmates.
Catherine Greig, the girlfriend of notorious crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger, was transferred from federal prison to serve the remainder of her sentence in a halfway house on Cape Cod
Bulger and Grieg are seen in a 1988 surveillance photo. They went on the run together in 1995 and lived on the lam together for 16 years until they were arrested in Santa Monica
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Greig pleaded guilty in 2012 to identity fraud and harboring a fugitive. She pleaded guilty to criminal contempt in 2016 for refusing to cooperate with authorities against Bulger.
She was sentenced to nine years and is due for release on July 23, 2020, at which time she reportedly plans to move to Hingham, south of Boston, near to where her sister lives.
Until then, Greig's lawyer Kevin Reddington said Greig will try to get a job while she's in the halfway house, where she'll be under a curfew and be strapped with a GPS monitoring device.
Mary Callahan, whose husband, John, was shot to death and left in the trunk of a car at a Miami airport in 1982 because he knew too much about Bulger's gang, said she hopes Greig finally talks.
'She wouldn't say anything about Whitey while he was alive,' Callahan told the Herald. 'I'm hoping she will say something now.'
Bulger and Greig posed as a retired couple from Chicago and were living in this condo building in Santa Monica when the FBI got a tip about their wherabouts
But for decades, on the outside and behind bars, Greig has remained totally loyal to Bulger, refusing to cut a deal and testify against him to avoid prison time.
Bulger was ultimately convicted of involvement in 11 murders during his time running the Irish mob in South Boston during the 1970s and 80s.
He disappeared from Boston with Greig in 1995 when tipped off about pending indictments, and has said their years on the run together were the happiest of his life.
Ironically, it was Bulger's devotion to Greig that led to his capture, after an FBI media campaign that focused on her, describing her as an animal lover who liked to frequent beauty salons, led a neighbor to call in a tip.
'I want to live until she is free,' Bulger wrote in a letter from prison postmarked November 3, 2011.
'After that I will refuse all medical care. I have a family member, a lawyer, who I wrote for final instructions — No autopsy. I want to be buried next to Catherine and that's it — Simple.'
Bulger did not get his wish to see Greig walk free. He was bludgeoned to death with a padlock in a sock on October 31 just hours after he was transferred to Hazelton USP under suspicious circumstances that remain unexplained.
Bulger was killed behind bars in October. He is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, and has said his one wish is to be buried next to Greig
The FBI found these stacks of cash in the wall of Bulger's Santa Monica condo. Some believe he has a massive fortune hidden elsewhere, which Greig may be waiting to collect
The mob kingpin is known to have set up safe deposit boxes containing cash, jewelry and passports in locations across North America and Europe, and when he was arrested with Greig the wall of their Santa Monica condo was found to be filled with cash.
There are those who believe the bulk of Bulger's ill-gotten fortune remains hidden, and that Greig knows the location of the stash, silently biding her time before release.
'If the feds don't follow her, she's gone,' Steve Davis, who lost a sister to the Bulger gang, told the Herald.
'It's sad. You get angry. She was protecting a man who killed so many people. All she had to do was talk and she would have walked.'
'She's gonna disappear. She has enough money to go wherever she wants,' said Davis, whose sister Debra Davis was brutally strangled to death in 1981, allegedly because she knew Bulger was an FBI informant.
Asked about Bulger's hidden fortune, Grieg's attorney dismissed the notion as 'speculation'.
