by Radar Staff
Former reputed mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger will return to a federal courtroom in Boston at 2pm ET Wednesday to enter a plea on 19 murder charges.
Bulger — arrested last month in Southern California after 16 years on the lam — will be arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler. It will be his first formal response to criminal charges in nearly two decades.
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Bulger, 81, was the leader of Boston’s notorious Winter Hill Gang when he fled in January of 1995 after being tipped by a former Boston FBI agent that he was about to be indicted. Bulger was a top-echelon FBI informant.
He was arrested along with his longtime girlfriend, 60-year-old Catherine Greig, on June 22 at their apartment in Santa Monica, California. Authorities found a stash of weapons in their residence, along with $800,000 in cash – much of it hidden in the apartment’s walls. The arrest was based on a tip after federal authorities reactivated a nationwide publicity campaign to find him.
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At the time of his arrest, he was number one on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.
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