Calling it `` the most extreme case '' of harboring a fugitive , prosecutors want the girlfriend of reputed mob boss James `` Whitey '' Bulger to spend the next decade in prison . Catherine Greig is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District court in Boston . After more than 16 years on the run , she and Bulger were captured in Santa Monica , California , last July . In a detailed memo prepared for the judge , prosecutors describe Greig as a `` partner '' who helped Bulger avoid capture . `` She not only hid his identity , but also hid the fact Bulger had filled their apartment with weapons , enabling Bulger to avoid capture by violence if necessary . '' The clues that led to Bulger 's capture . Bulger , who is being held without bail , was the head of a South Boston Irish gang before he fled an impending racketeering indictment in 1995 . He evaded law enforcement for 16 years before he and Greig were arrested in June 2011 in Santa Monica . James 'Whitey ' Bulger may have authored memoirs , prosecutors say . The couple had , for several years , hidden in plain sight in the palm-tree-lined , oceanside city near Los Angeles in a three-story building named Princess Eugenia . After discovering the alleged mobster 's location , FBI agents lured the couple into the garage from their third-floor apartment on the pretext that someone had broken into their storage locker , and the duo were taken into custody . Inside the couple 's modest two-bedroom , corner apartment , FBI agents discovered assault rifles , a 12-gauge shotgun , many semi-automatic pistols and revolvers , a silencer , a Derringer pistol , multiple hunting knives and bundles of cash . Prosecutors say Greig could have walked away at any time but protected Bulger instead , and in so doing deprived victims ' family members of reasonable justice . Bulger is accused of 19 murders during his reign of terror in South Boston during the 1970s and '80s . FBI : $ 2.1 million reward paid in Bulger case . `` The sentence ought to take into account the broader effect of Greig 's conduct , '' wrote prosecutors , who are also seeking a $ 150,000 fine and three years ' supervised release . Bulger 's trial is scheduled for November , but his lawyers are arguing there 's not enough time to go through the volumes of discovery material they need to prepare Bulger 's defense . Affleck , Damon to produce , star in Whitey Bulger film .
Catherine Greig was girlfriend of reputed mob boss `` Whitey '' Bulger . Greig is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District court in Boston . The jury found Bulger, 83, guilty on all counts against him and he faces a mandatory life sentence when it begins its deliberations next month.