Minutes after landing in Boston after 16 years on the run, reputed Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger was escorted into the federal courthouse by U.S. marshals. During his brief appearance, he asked the magistrate to give him back his money.
Bulger, 81, was arrested by FBI agents outside his Santa Monica apartment Wednesday, along with longtime girlfriend and fellow fugitive Catherine Greig, 60.
Bulger and Greig were flown to Boston from California in a small, non-commercial jet, and were immediately whisked away in a convoy of state police cruisers, motorcycles and black Chevy Suburbans with dark-tinted windows.
Bulger appeared at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse just before 4 p.m. for the first of two hearings -- one on various racketeering charges and another for murder and related charges.
The pair are expected to return to court next week.
David Boeri, an investigative reporter for WBUR in Boston, tracked James "Whitey" Bulger's story for the past 26 years.
He says Bulger relished violence, and may have killed many more people than the 19 the feds know about.
"He was a brutal killer, unlike mafia dons, who often removed themselves from the violence, he liked violence, he engaged in murders up close personally. His sidekick once told me... he says he's murdered somewhere in the range of 60 or 70 people. Killing women, young women, strangling them."
Boeri says tips about Bulger over the years led him to San Diego and even a trip to Venice, California. That's how close he got to the notorious mobster.
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