LOS ANGELES — A federal judge sentenced the longtime girlfriend of reputed Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger to eight years in prison Tuesday and fined her $150,000 for helping “someone accused of the most serious crimes imaginable.”
Catherine Greig, 61, showed no emotion in the Boston courtroom as U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock told her she had plenty of time during her 16 years in hiding to understand the seriousness of her actions, according to The Associated Press.
Greig pleaded guilty in March to charges of conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud.
Bulger, 82, is the former head of the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish-American crime ring in Boston, prosecutors said. He pleaded not guilty to charges linked to 19 slayings from the 1970s and 1980s, and he faces trial in the fall. He and Greig posed as a married retired couple from Chicago, prosecutors said, and kept a stash of about $800,000 and 30 weapons behind a wall of their Santa Monica, Calif., apartment.
