Lawyer for Mass. mobster’s lover asks for leniency

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BOSTON (AP) — Catherine Greig’s attorney said she fell in love with a “Robin Hood like” figure, never believing in the 16 years she helped hide one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives that her outlaw boyfriend was a murderer.

The lawyer for the longtime girlfriend of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger appealed Monday for leniency for his client, asking a federal judge to give her 27 months in prison at her sentencing Tuesday.

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