James "Whitey" Bulger due in Boston court
Last Updated 12:41 p.m. ET
Gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, nabbed in California this week after 16 years as a fugitive, is making a quick return to Boston.
The former crime boss who is wanted in connection with 19 murders is scheduled to be in federal court in Boston at 4 p.m. Friday, said a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors in Boston.
The head of Boston's Irish mob, Bulger was the target of a massive FBI manhunt, and will face trial, charged with 19 murders, extortion, drug dealing, and money laundering.
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CBS News Justice Department correspondent Bob Orr reports that it appears Bulger has spent most of the past 16 years living in a Santa Monica apartment, paying his $1,100-per-month rent in cash. Sources say he traveled - occasionally to the Caribbean and even to London - but that he was not so much a fugitive on the run as an aging mobster trying to blend in to suburban L.A.
When Bulger and his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig, were taken into custody, Orr said, 30 guns and $800,000 in cash were confiscated.
The Los Angeles Times reports that at the time of his arrest Bulger appeared befuddled by all the commotion, though still defiant - the 81-year-old refused an order to lie on the ground so that he could be handcuffed.
Residents told the Times Bulger appeared to be suffering from dementia and paranoid rage, and was controlling of his girlfriend and any contact she had with others.
His longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig, who was captured with him Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., will make her initial appearance in a different courtroom shortly afterward.
"He's done tons and tons of evil," Shea told "The Early Show," "not only to innocent victims, but he also has never honored the code that he preached all those years to myself and to others involved, and he was a fraud in that sense."
He said the 19 bodies Bulger is alleged to be responsible for are just "icing on the cake."
CBS Station WBZ reports that a former Bulger foot soldier, Ed MacKenzie, described his old boss as "a complete animal."
"He was Vlad the Impaler," MacKenzie told WBZ correspondent Christina Hager. "The guy ate his own young. He used everybody and abused everybody. He was a complete sociopathic serial killing pedophile machine.'
He also said the crime boss was a master of disguise. "He used to go out on hits dressed as a woman, one time as a nun," MacKenzie recalled.
The arrest appears to end a long, frustrating manhunt that had embarrassed the FBI, but Bulger's capture could be only the beginning of a new scandal for the Boston FBI and others.
If Bulger decides to cut a deal with prosecutors, he could implicate an untold number of local, state and federal law enforcement officials, according to investigators who built a racketeering indictment against Bulger before he fled in 1995.
"If he starts to talk, there will be some unwelcome accountability on the part of a lot of people inside law enforcement," said retired Massachusetts state police Maj. Tom Duffy. "Let me put it this way: I wouldn't want my pension contingent on what he will say at this point."FBI helped Bulger evade detection, ex-cop says
Timeline of James "Whitey" Bulger's life
"He stabbed people, he beat people with bats, he shot people, strangled people, run them over with car," Weeks told Bradley. "After he would kill somebody, he'd - it was like a stress relief, you know? He'd be nice and calm for a couple of weeks afterwards, like he just got rid of all his stress."
