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'Whitey' Bulger's girlfriend asks for leniency
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Lawyer for Catherine Greig says her only crime was falling in love with the notorious gangster
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- Date Jun 12, 2012
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We -- her lawyer says that her only crime was falling in love with the notorious mobster.
Right now at the federal courthouse in Boston though the woman who spent sixteen years on the run.
With -- Whitey Bulger finds out her fate Molly Line is live in Boston with more self Molly what is the judge way here.
Well -- pretty divergent calls coming from the prosecution and the defense here the prosecution.
Says they like to see -- -- get ten years behind bars the prosecution.
Saying that things need to come down top and hard on Catherine -- here because she was essentially harboring a fugitive and helping lighting older -- on the run all these years.
The defense attorneys whoever asks for just 27 months as you mention.
Saying that she was really the girlfriend here or not be a hardcore criminal.
That James Whitey Bulger is accused of BA the -- attorney contends that she's a gentle woman who had no knowledge of the guns and -- hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash.
Found at that Santa Monica apartment that she shared with Bulger.
In March Greg did plead guilty to a number of charges stemming from her years on the run including conspiracy to harbor fugitive and identity fraud for more than a decade.
The couple used multiple aliases and fake IDs to travel all over the country posing as a retired couple.
In court papers prosecutors argue that for sixteen years Greg conspired to -- did protect -- Alleged to be one of the most dangerous and violent criminals in the history of the district.
From being discovered by law enforcement knowing full well the Bulger was wanted for serious crimes and having ample opportunity to walk away at any time.
Greg Natalie concealed -- from law enforcement but did herself.
That multiple additional fentanyl felonies -- order to protect him from captures some of those additional felonies of course.
They include using these fake IDs to get medical care -- all the other things they needed over the course.
Of their many years on the run back to all right so we'll see what happens with her case what about Whitey Bulger what's the deal with him.
-- he remains in prison in custody of course he'll be heading to trial in the fall.
He's not guilty to all of the charges that he has been facing.
Many of them stemming.
From the years that he was actually acting as an FBI informant including those nineteen murders all of those accusations occurred at the at that point time it was essentially on the pay well and and compromising with FBI agents.
Quite a story continuing to unravel Molly Line live in Boston Molly thanks.