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AP Legal Affairs:
Time running out to charge anyone who helped Bulger
Former Massachusetts Sen- gangster James “Whitey” “I don’t think the chances In testimony before a fed-
ate President William Bulger Bulger have long believed are great. I’d be happy to eral grand jury in 2001, Wil-
leaves the federal courthouse he had multiple helpers see it, but I’d be surprised liam Bulger acknowledged
in Boston after attending the when he fled Boston and to see it,” said retired state that he and his brother
first appearance for his broth- went on the run. police Col. Thomas Foley, spoke by phone shortly af-
er James “Whitey” Bulger and But if prosecutors don’t who spent two decades ter he fled Boston in late
his girlfriend Catherine Greig. bring charges within the pursuing Bulger. 1994. William Bulger also
In testimony before a federal next few months, the only Bulger, now 86, is serving acknowledged that he did
grand jury in 2001, William person to be charged with a life sentence after be- not encourage his brother
Bulger acknowledged that actually assisting the noto- ing convicted of a litany to surrender.
he and his brother spoke by rious crime boss during his of crimes during a 2013 “I don’t feel an obligation
phone shortly after Whitey 16 years as a fugitive will racketeering trial, including to help everyone catch
Bulger fled Boston in late be his longtime girlfriend. participating in 11 murders. him,” he said, according to
1994. The statute of limitations for Over the years, investiga- leaked transcripts of testi-
harboring a fugitive is five tors suspected Bulger re- mony published in The Bos-
(AP Photo/Charles Krupa) years. The clock began ceived help from his family, ton Globe.
ticking when Bulger was and attention focused on Another brother, John
DENISE LAVOIE captured in Santa Moni- his brother, William Bulger, “Jackie” Bulger, pleaded
AP Legal Affairs Writer ca, California, on June 22, a powerful political figure guilty to perjury and ob-
BOSTON (AP) — Investiga- 2011, and runs out on June who was president of the struction of justice in 2003
tors who spent years build- 22, 2016. state Senate for 17 years. for lying to federal grand
ing a criminal case against Catherine Greig, who ac- But William Bulger has de- juries. Jackie Bulger admit-
companied Bulger on his nied helping his brother ted he had spoken to his
long flight from justice, was while he was a fugitive and brother while he was a fu-
sentenced to eight years in has never been charged. gitive.
prison for helping him.
Greig faces additional
prison time after pleading
guilty last month to con-
tempt for refusing to testify
before a grand jury investi-
gating who else may have
helped Bulger.
Now the question is, with-
out Greig’s help, will any-
one else ever be charged?
Spokeswoman: Jimmy Carter no
longer needing cancer treatment
Associated Press Deanna Congileo said in
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy an email that Carter re-
Carter no longer needs ceived doses of the drug
treatment for the cancer from August through Feb-
diagnosis he revealed in ruary. She said his doctors
August, a spokeswoman will continue to perform
for the former president scans to ensure cancer
said on Sunday. Carter, cells have not returned,
91, apparently shared the and Carter will “resume
news at one of his regu- treatment if necessary.” A
lar Sunday School class- spokesman for Emory Uni-
es at Maranatha Baptist versity’s Winship Cancer
Church in his hometown Institute, where Carter has
of Plains, Georgia. Carter been treated, declined to
announced in August that comment on Sunday, cit-
he had been diagnosed ing patient privacy.
with melanoma that had Medical experts have
spread to his brain and laid called Keytruda and simi-
out a treatment plan, in- lar immune therapy drugs
cluding a round of target- “game-changing” for pa-
ed radiation at the brain tients with melanoma. But
tumors and doses of an im- the drugs are relatively
mune-boosting drug every new, and doctors are still
three weeks. Keytruda, the learning about how they
drug, was approved not should be used, said Dr.
long before Carter’s an- Len Lichtenfeld, deputy
nouncement and helps his chief medical officer for
body seek out and destroy the American Cancer So-
cancer cells. ciety. He is not involved in
Carter’s spokeswoman Carter’s treatment.
