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.

Says #Bulger had this all planned out, many people helped him. "Nobody helped him more than #Greig, the defendant."--Pirozzolo

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:12:39 PM
Judge to let #Bulger victims speak, but says fine line under law that he won't address. "It's not a matter of right," he said in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:17:13 PM
"It's a matter of the right thing." Judge says in #Greig, deciding to let victims speak.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:18:09 PM
Judge says claim of "emotional harm" wouldn't stand in a civil court, but this is more of letting the public be heard. #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:18:50 PM
Judge going on about the rights of the victims, the wrongdoing of the FBI and how Judge Wolf exposed the scandalous relationship with Bulger

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:21:37 PM
Judge going poetic: it isn't victims rehearsing for book tour, it's letting others know what happens when "insiders play an insiders game"

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:28:12 PM
Those insiders, the judge saying, are the FBI agent who had a scandalous relationship with FBI, and who fought efforts to expose it

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:28:55 PM
Tim Connors, 37, first to speak in #Greig. His father Edward Connors, was shot to death, allegedly by Bulger in June, 1975

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:30:44 PM
"You are as much a criminal as Whitey, and you ought to be handled as such.....You are a coldhearted criminal." #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:31:18 PM
Says only time she showed emotion is when discussing dead brother. #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:31:43 PM
"If truth be told, I would have killed my self too," he says in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:32:10 PM
FIX: "If truth be told, if I had a sister like you, I would have killed my self too," he said in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:33:01 PM
Judge sighs that statements should be used to toughen sentence, warns of danger of what comes out. #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:33:57 PM
Next to speak is Steve Davis, whose sister Debra was killed by Bulger and Stephen Flemmi. #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:34:46 PM
Davis said he was there for his mother, Olga, who did not live long enough to see Bulger get caught.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:35:43 PM
"Catherine, you are a dirty bitch," Davis says. #Greig. Says she doesn't have courage to "look us in the eye."

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:36:21 PM
Next is Patricia Donahue, whose husband Michael was an innocent man killed by Bulger, who targeted someone else. #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:36:51 PM
Donahue says she bears responsibility: "I believe he wouldn't have survived all those years without her help." #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:37:39 PM
Next is a member of the McConagle family: Paulie McGonagle was killed in 1974, body unearthed from secret grave in 2000

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:39:15 PM
"My father had his faults, but no matter what he did he did not deserve to die the way he did," the son, Paul McGonagle said. #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:40:03 PM
Paul McConagle said #Greig is his aunt by marriage, said she helped him stay on the run, betraying his family.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:40:58 PM
Last to speak was Stephen Rakes, who had his liquor store take over by #Bulger.He thought he'd be arrested in 1995, only to fear him on run

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:41:52 PM
Reddington now: Says Judge is someone who can cut through tape, the "insider" tape, to judge #Greig for who she is.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:42:48 PM
Reddington says he has come to know #Greig, has an admiration for her.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:43:16 PM
She did not commit crimes, he said. She did not profit from anything. "She was basically his house made," he says in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:43:46 PM
He also says they didn't "prey" on homeless. "If they were targeting anyone is someone who looked like them." #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:44:39 PM
Judge to take break to 1:30.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 4:58:06 PM
#Greig did not want to say anything to the court. Back at 1:30

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:00:33 PM
All rise. Back in court in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:35:52 PM
Judge saying he has spent this time reflecting on what the families said earlier.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:37:07 PM
Said they were crude, cruel, but "reflecting vengeance." #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:37:42 PM
"This is a case that demonstrates how the criminal justice system broke down," the judge says. #

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:38:11 PM
"But that doesn't mean that the criminal justice system can't resolve" this, the judge adds in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:39:05 PM
"I acknowledge the guidelines don't quite capture everything that's involved in this case," the judge says. #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:40:01 PM
"This is a serious offense, a serious collecdtion of offenses, there's no question about that," he says in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:40:51 PM
Judge saying this a harboring case, but still so much more than a harboring case."#Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:43:23 PM
"It includes harboring someone accused of the most serious crimes imaginable," he says in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:44:07 PM
"The defendant is someone capable of making their own choices, and had a long time in making those choices," judge says in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:45:26 PM
Judge citing the positive qualities attributed to #Greig, how her neighbors loved her: but he goes back to the choice she made:

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:47:05 PM
Harboring, identity theft, fraud, #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:47:27 PM
"There has to be a price imposed (by the court) ...to serve as general deterrence," judge saying in #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:50:51 PM
Judge saying he didn't know what sentencing guideline would be till this morning, though he had a rough guest.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:53:05 PM
96 months. $150,000 fine for #Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:53:30 PM
Three years of supervised release.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:54:05 PM
Courtroom is quiet, no emotion from #Greig or her sister, sitting in front row.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:54:31 PM
Judge going through routine: submit DNA sample, no guns, noo use of aliases...#Greig

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:55:33 PM
#Greig is 61 years old, owns her own home in Quincy, will be the source of the $150,000 fine.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:56:29 PM
"We're all responsible for what we do," judge tells #Greig directly, "We all make choices."

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:57:46 PM
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by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:59:07 PM
Greig looks back at sister and nodds as leaves courtroom.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/12/2012 5:59:47 PM