Who knew Whitey Bulger was into papaya?
That’s only one takeaway from the newest FBI doc dump on the serial-killing, cocaine-dealing, bank-robbing underworld kingpin whose brother was essentially the most highly effective Democrat in Massachusetts politics.
In this newest launch of proof, the corrupt G-men have turned over copies of a spiral-bound stenographer’s pocket book they retrieved in 1984 from a “trash bin.”
The pad was apparently utilized by one of many mass assassin’s girlfriends, Catherine Greig, to speak with Whitey, whom she referred to as “James,” as in:
“James Papaya Cut up.”
On the subsequent web page, she leaves a message for her man:
“1:00 PM – Gone over (to) the house – Papaya cut up in refridge and potato kugel in toaster oven Keeping warm. Be back later… OK. Love (name redacted).”
Despite the redactions, it seems that this was written by Greig, due to the references to house-hunting in Squantum. That was the place Catherine Greig did finally purchase a house, which in 2012 could be offered to repay a $150,000 high quality that went alongside together with her jail sentence.
Her Bureau of Prisons quantity is 57820-112. Now 71 years outdated, Greig was launched from Club Fed in July 2020.
The love affair between Greig and Bulger, who was sufficiently old to be her father, was actually a storybook South Boston romance.
She was a dental hygienist, briefly married to a Boston firefighter, Robert McGonagle.
McGonagle got here from an enormous Southie household. One of his brothers, Donald McGonagle, was murdered in 1969 — by Whitey Bulger. Whitey adopted that up by murdering one other of his gal pal’s brothers-in-law, Paul, in 1974.
Robert McGonagle died of a drug overdose earlier than Whitey might homicide him.
Catherine had a brother, David, whom Whitey took a shine to. Whitey began bringing David Greig to conferences of the gang, suggesting he had a future within the rackets.
Unfortunately, younger David had a nasty behavior, so to talk, of nodding off. Whitey blamed it on a “vitamin deficiency.” The different hoods stated, yeah, it was Vitamin P — for Percocet.
Around the time the steno pad was in use, David was discovered useless of a gunshot wound to his head down on the Cape. The gun was reasonably a good distance from the physique, however it was dominated a suicide. Go determine.
In the pages of the steno pad the FBI has lastly launched, the girl appears fairly distraught over a current loss of life. On the identical day she reduce up the papaya and left the potato kugel within the toaster oven for Whitey, she added:
“Thanks for the talk & the wine last night – I slept and I feel a little better knowing he’s finally at peace – I hope he knows we loved him.”
On the subsequent web page, she writes at 9:30 p.m.:
“James, Decided to stay at my house tonight — nothing is wrong — just feel like being alone for awhile. Talk to you tomorrow. Love (redacted).”
It seems Whitey additionally left notes within the pad, judging from the similarity of a few of the handwriting to that in different paperwork. He makes lists of issues to do, amongst them: “Burn all notes envelopes numbers etc.”
Then he leaves directions for his soulmate: “Leave fire place till later in case we burn more soon…. I shook up the ashes in fire place & it seems everything is reduced to ashes so we can clean it later.”
The subsequent web page reverts to a grieving Catherine, writing at 7 p.m.
“Gone to visit my mother. Tuna fish & papaya in fridge more bread in freezer. You couldn’t be more wrong when you think I don’t appreciate you. I told my mother, (redacted), everyone that I don’t know what I would have done this past week without you. The long talks have helped to put things out of my mind, the house searching has helped to distract me….”
She’s referring to buying that home in Quincy. She finally finds one she likes, however worries about “water in the basement.”
No response from Whitey within the pad to that concern — on the time, he had his personal considerations a couple of basement. He’d buried three our bodies within the cellar of a home in Southie, and finally needed to order his overweight dim-witted stooge Kevin Weeks to dig up the stays and rebury them in a vacant lot in Dorchester.
Back to Catherine’s cry from the center:
“… the concern for my mother has given me purpose — but all those things can’t erase the pain — the ache — inside me. I’m really incapable of describing what I feel — I know with time it will ease. I apologize for hurting you. I really do understand your need to be away from me, to take a trip, whatever makes you happy.”
Could this be a reference to the Mexico journey Whitey took with a 15-year-old woman named Tammy? As Stevie Flemmi identified on the homicide trial of his accomplice and fellow pedophile: “That’s a violation of the Mann Act!”
Back to Catherine Greig’s epistle to her lover boy:
“I need time James — I feel myself slipping — can’t bear to hear your words of disgust.”
Imagine that! After she reduce up all that papaya for him, all she will get from Whitey is sizzling tongue and chilly shoulder.
“I’m trying to keep going. (Redacted) called — I’m meeting her tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. to work out, run and for a bite to eat. It’s only been ONE week and a half I need time to recover you’ve been depressed for a year. Your (sic) much better now.”
Given the time-frame, I feel Whitey’s despair might have had one thing to do with the truth that he hadn’t murdered anybody for a number of months. But since he was in all probability already planning to strangle Stevie’s stepdaughter Deb Hussey, his temper should have been on the upswing.
“Be around someone who makes you happy,” Whitey’s girlfriend tenderly urges her man. “Go away. Just please don’t say those things to me anymore — I can’t take it James — leave me alone — give me time — I’ll always be here for you.”
Catherine Greig’s lawyer didn’t return calls asking for remark.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”