Feb 26, 2008 1:27 pm US/Eastern
Couple In Italy Video Isn't Bulger And Girlfriend
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The bureau released this photo in September of a couple that was taken in Taormina, Sicily in April 2007. It was believed to be Bulger and his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig.
FBI
It's official.
An elderly couple caught on camera in Italy last year was not fugitive mobster James "Whitey" Bulger and his girlfriend.
FBI agents from Boston appeared on German TV's equivalent of "America's Most Wanted" last Wednesday to ask for the public's help in catching Bulger.
They showed pictures and video of a couple resembling Bulger and his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig that was videotaped in Sicily last April.
Shortly after the program aired, a couple from Germany came forward to say it was them, not Bulger and Grieg.
Authorities in Boston officially confirmed it Tuesday.
"Law enforcement is satisfied that this couple is not James J. Bulger and
Catherine Elizabeth Greig," U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan said in a statement.
The Bulger fugitive task force worked with German authorities on the confirmation, using the couple's passports, hotel receipts and other evidence.
Since the tape was made public last September, Bulger has also been featured in TV broadcasts in Rome, London and Madrid.
Bulger, 78, the former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, has been on the run since January 1995, when he was tipped off by FBI agent John Connolly that he was about to be indicted on racketeering charges.
He is also wanted for 19 murders in and around Boston during the 1970s and 1980s.
There is a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
The FBI says the last confirmed Bulger sighting was in London in September 2002.
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