
Boston Globe article cites US Marshalls office conducting an auction of seized Bulger Items
The proceeds of the auction, being held by the US Marshals Service, will be distributed among the families of 20 people Bulger and his crew were accused of killing, and several of Bulger’s extortion victims.
Bidding will start at 10 a.m. on June 25 at the South Boston convention center, which is offering free admission and holds up to 1,000 people. A Texas auction house, Gaston & Sheehan , will offer a simulcast auction online. Organizers hope to stage the auction room to resemble the layout of the two-bedroom apartment where Bulger and Greig lived.
On June 24, the day before the auction officially opens, the public is invited to wander through a 9,000 square-foot room at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, where hundreds of items seized from the Santa Monica, Calif., apartment Bulger and Catherine Greig shared as fugitives — along with items recovered from a London safe deposit box and f