Live blog: Catherine Greig sentencing
She’s been called a lovestruck woman who was kind to homeless animals and an “evil’’ person who was the reason accused murderer James “Whitey’’ Bulger successfully avoided capture by law enforcement for 16 years.
Today, Catherine Greig will learn how long she will be called an inmate in the federal Bureau of Prisons. >> Story
Globe reporter Milton Valencia is tweeting updates from court. You can follow the stream below or on Twitter @MiltonValencia.
She’s been called a lovestruck woman who was kind to homeless animals and an “evil’’ person who was the reason accused murderer James “Whitey’’ Bulger successfully avoided capture by law enforcement for 16 years.
Today, Catherine Greig will learn how long she will be called an inmate in the federal Bureau of Prisons. >> Story
Globe reporter Milton Valencia is tweeting updates from court. You can follow the stream below or on Twitter @MiltonValencia.
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:34:40 PMReddington steps up: says #Greig was in shock after arrest, has been forthcoming since got here in Mass. -
by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:35:41 PMSays #Greig was so distant from life in Mass., including cash: Never knew her mother died.
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:37:56 PMReddington says #Greig didn't lie about cash: said she really did let go of cash and house when she fled. 17 years ago
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:42:10 PMJudge putting off decision on obstruction of justice factor until he can decide whether #Greig knew about guns, another factor in sentencing
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:43:57 PMAbout 30 guns, heavy duty weaponry, were found in walls of their Santa Monica apartment. Did #Greig know about them?
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:45:34 PMJudge doesn't know: “Mr. Bulger doesn’t strike me as someone who would welcome the opportunity to share his weapons, with anyone.” #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:46:24 PM#Greig is not charged with having the weapons, but knowing about them would raise her culpability for harboring, and thus her sentence.
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:47:20 PMPirozzolo agrees no evidence she handled the guns: no fingerprints, or DNA: But says she HAD to know about them. #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:48:33 PMJudge says govt. unduly asking him to punish #Greig for guns when there wasn't enough evidence to charge her with it. #Bulger
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:49:39 PM"The government chose not to charge her in the first place, for a variety of reasons," Judge says in #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:56:19 PMWhat evidence does government have that #Greig knew about the guns, other than the fact that she lived there?
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 2:58:37 PMPirozzolo shows a notebook: used as a weekly planner, kept notes there. Greig wrote in it.....
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:00:00 PMtools....hacksaw....Home Depot....says she jotted down the supplies she needed so the gun hide could be built in the walls. #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:00:30 PMJudge asks whether that would have been enough evidence to charge #Greig with a gun crime.
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:01:31 PM"That, in and out of itself does not establish gun possession," judge says in #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:01:49 PMPros.says "clear and convincing"....Judge says not "beyond reasonable doubt"
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:02:23 PM"I mean to be technical. The guidelines themselves are technical," the judge says.
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:07:10 PMBulger said #Greig could stay in apartment if he died: Pirozzolo says so she must have known about stuff in wall, only way she could live on
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:09:10 PM“She must have had license to take that cash if Bulger was compromised in some way,” Pirozzolo says. #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:14:02 PMJudge saying #Greig would have had to use guns and cash to harbor #Bulger or get identity, but no evidence she had access to them to do that
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:18:08 PMReddington steps up, takes notebook: Says #Greig was taking class on "home repair," assignment was fixing bath tub, and she lists the tools
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:18:50 PM"That's what this is about...it's notes she took on how to fix a toilet." #Greig...lists her teacher's name on the top
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:19:26 PM#Greig seems animated, apparently laughing.
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:20:16 PMPirozzolo had argued that the notes were what #Greig had needed to build the gun and cash "hide"
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:20:52 PMReddington shows similar notes from #Greig computer class
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:22:17 PMRuling: Judge will apply the weapons enhancement in sentencing: Says no indication she would use, but goes to conspiracy with #Bulger #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:22:54 PM"It is apparent to me she knew there were lots of weapons," the judge says. #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:26:32 PMRuling: Judge will apply Obstruction of Justice enhancement, says some lies were insignificant but goes to conspiracy #Greig had with Bulger
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:28:42 PMJudge adding other minor enhancements: The sophistication of their scheme, the relocation to California. #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:29:36 PMThis puts a sentence higher than the 27 to 33 months that probation had calculated: Judge going over now. #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:30:44 PMNew guidelines still being calculated as we tweet, but prosecutors have already asked that Judge go higher than them anyway: #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:33:26 PMNew Guidelines: 87 to 108 months #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:34:12 PMFine range: $15,000 to $150,000. #Greig. "Those are the guidelines," Judge says, but adds, "The guidelines are advisory."
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:35:18 PMJudge notes that government wants upward variance as well....will hear that argument, and from five families of #Bulger victims, after break
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:36:40 PMGovt. saying upward variance based on this case here: Stay tuned; #Greig #Bulger
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:58:03 PMAll rise. This Honorable Court is back in session: #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 3:59:28 PMPirozzolo asks for "wise and reasonable" sentence: 10 years, $150,000 fine, 3 years supervised release
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:02:08 PM"This is the most extreme harboring case" ..." Pirozzolo says, noting length of time and nature of #Bulger's alleged crimes.
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:02:42 PM"Essentially, the defendant was committing a crime, day after day," Pirozzolo says in #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:07:41 PMPirozzolo goes back to victims of ID fraud, saying they were preyed on. #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:08:47 PM"This is not someone who simply showed up...she was an active participant in the effort" to stay on the run, Pirozzolo says in #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:09:33 PMAlso says #Greig shows no remorse, only regret got caught.
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:10:25 PM“This is a woman who by choice chose to help a man who has been accused of vicious crimes.” Pirozzolo says in #Greig
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:11:17 PMHe also lashes out at reference to "love" of Bulger, and Shakespearean sonnets: "This isn't poetry," Pirozzolo saysin #Greig