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Where is Whitey? FBI looking in London for Bulger
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The task force looking for James "Whitey'' Bulger. launched a media blitz throughout Europe after a couple resembling the gangster and his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, 56, were videotaped by a vacationing federal agent as they strolled through the Sicilian resort of Taormina in April.
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff
FBI agents from Boston are in London today, huddling with detectives at Scotland Yard, as part of the worldwide manhunt for fugitive gangster James "Whitey'' Bulger.
"It is part of a continuing effort to increase the international awareness of the hunt for Bulger,'' Thomas Larned, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office, said today.
The Bulger task force launched a media blitz throughout Europe after a couple resembling Bulger, 78, and his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, 56, were videotaped by a vacationing federal agent as they strolled through the Sicilian resort of Taormina in April. The FBI posted a portion of the video on its website in September after efforts by American and Italian law enforcement officials to locate and identify the couple were unsuccessful.
"We are continuing efforts to identify the individuals who were seen in Taormina in April,'' Larned said.
A crew from Fox TV's America's Most Wanted and the show's host, John Walsh, are in London today talking with the FBI and were in Boston two weeks ago, interviewing law enforcement officials, former Bulger associates, and others familiar with the case. A segment on the gangster is slated to run Nov. 17, according to Matt Jablow, one of the show's producers.
Bulger, one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted, fled just before his January 1995 federal racketeering indictment and was later exposed as a longtime FBI informant and charged with 19 murders. The last confirmed sighting of the gangster was in London's Piccadilly Circus in September 2002, according to the FBI.
