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Reputed Mobster's Brother Charged.

November/2001

By ROBERT O'NEILL, Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) - John Bulger, brother of reputed mobster James ``Whitey'' Bulger, was charged Friday with perjury and obstruction of justice, accused of lying to federal grand juries investigating his fugitive brother.

According to the indictment, Bulger told a grand jury in 1998 he had not heard from his brother directly or indirectly since James Bulger's 1995 disappearance.

The fugitive had contacted John Bulger through an intermediary in 1996, prosecutors said. Bulger also told a grand jury in 1996 that he did not know that his brother had a safe deposit box. The Indictment claims he made a payment in 1996 for a box in Clearwater, Fla., opened by James Bulgerfour years earlier.

Bulger was charged with two counts each of perjury and obstruction of justice and released on$10,000 bond after a brief appearance before a federal magistrate Friday.

``John Bulger always has loved his brother and will continue to love his brother,'' said his attorney,
Charles Gormley.

``This is an accusation by the government and that's it.'' Bulger, 63, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison on each of the perjury charges and10 years on the obstruction charges, as well as a maximum $250,000 fine for each.

Gormley said Bulger would plead innocent. James Bulger helped run Somerville's Winter Hill Gang from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. Wanted in the murders of 19 people, he has been missing since January 1995 and is now on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list with a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture.

Investigators have tried to keep track of any attempts by James Bulger to contact John Bulger or his other brother, William Bulger, who is president of the University of Massachusetts. FBI agentsconfiscated the hard drive from John Bulger's courthouse computer in April, shortly after he retire from his longtime position as Boston Juvenile Court Clerk-Magistrate, according to published reports.

At the time, Gormley denied his client had had any contact with James Bulger since 1995.