By Lookout Staff

November 15, 2013 -- A Boston judge handed down two life sentences plus five years Thursday to James “Whitey” Bulger, the infamous Boston mobster captured in Santa Monica two years ago.

The sentencing comes three months after a jury in his hometown found the 84-year-old gangster guilty of 11 murders and other crimes committed during his decades-long involvement in Boston's Irish mob.

According to reports, after listing Bulger’s crimes, U.S. District Judge Denise Casper said, “The scope, the callousness, the depravity of your crimes, are almost unfathomable.”

According to reports, Bulger heard his sentencing with little emotional response, speaking only once when asked if he understood that he had the right to appeal the verdict.

While Thursday marked the end of a two-month long trial, it also settled the fate of one Boston’s most notorious crime bosses, who had been on the lam since 1994.
Bulger, whose life was dramatized in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed¸ fled Boston and hid out in an apartment in Santa Monica for nearly two decades before the FBI caught up with him in 2011.

Reportedly, Bulger -- and his girlfriend Cathrine Greig -- paid the $1,145-a-month rent for their third-story apartment in the Princess Eugenia building at 1012 Third Street, just north of Santa Monica’s famous Third Street Promenade, in cash.

The couple had moved into the apartment in 1996, just two years after Bulger fled Boston after receiving a tip that the FBI was planning to indict him.

Bulger was known to have a cozy relationship with corrupt FBI agents who may tipped him off, according to reports.

Bulger’s final stop was Santa Monica’s Wilmont Neighborhood, a wealthy neighborhood between Wilshire Boulevard and Montana Avenue, a far cry from the destitute housing project in blue-collar South Boston where a young Bulger learned his trade in the years following the Great Depression.

The couple, who had adopted the names Charles and Carol Gasko, would frequent the nearby Promenade and the weekly Farmers Market on Arizona Avenue, according to reports.

When he was arrested in his Santa Monica apartment, Bulger reportedly refused an order to get on his knees because he was wearing white pants.

He had clearly maintained some of his habits as authorities found a cache of weapons and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.