Denise Lavoie

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Mass. foreclosure ruling disappoints advocates

Denise Lavoie · June 22, 2012 5:56 pm

1 year after mobster’s capture, little has changed

Denise Lavoie · June 21, 2012 8:51 pm

This 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's office shows a shelf containing books about gangsters and crime in the Santa Monica, Calif., apartment where Whitey Bulger and Catherine Greig hid before their arrest in June 2011. The photo was among hundreds of documents unsealed by prosecutors Friday, June 15, 2012, three days after Greig was sentenced in Boston to eight years in prison for helping Bulger during his years as a fugitive. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office)

Feds share new details of Bulger’s fugitive life

Denise Lavoie · June 15, 2012 10:59 pm

Victims' family members, Steve Davis, left, and Tommy Donahue clasp hands as they react outside federal court in Boston Tuesday, June 12, 2012, after Catherine Greig, who spent 16 years on the run with former Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping to hide one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Mobster’s girlfriend files sentence appeal notice

Denise Lavoie · June 14, 2012 2:06 am

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington speaks to media outside federal court in Boston Tuesday, June 12, 2012, after Catherine Greig, who spent 16 years on the run with former Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for helping to hide one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Mass. mobster Bulger’s longtime lover gets 8 years

Denise Lavoie · June 12, 2012 8:45 pm

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Catherine Greig, the longtime girlfriend of Whitey Bulger, captured with Bulger June 22, 2011, in Santa Monica, Calif. Greig was by Bulger's side for more than three decades, first as a secret girlfriend he kept on the side while he lived with another woman, then as the faithful woman who left behind her life in Massachusetts so she could go on the run with him. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)

Whitey Bulger girlfriend faces sentencing in Mass.

Denise Lavoie · June 11, 2012 12:03 am

Howard "Howie" Winter, left and James Melvin listen during their arraignment at Somerville District Court on Friday, June 8, 2012 in Somerville, Mass. Winter, 83, and Melvin, 70, were arrested Thursday after authorities said they tried over several months to extort $35,000 from each of two men who had arranged a $100,000 loan for a third man. Both men pleaded not guilty to attempted extortion and conspiracy charges. Winter is the former head of the Winter Hill Gang, that was later run by James "Whitey" Bulger. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, Jonathan Wiggs, Pool)

2 plead not guilty in Mass. extortion attempt case

Denise Lavoie · June 8, 2012 11:46 pm

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Catherine Greig, the longtime girlfriend of Whitey Bulger captured with Bulger June 22, 2011, in Santa Monica, Calif. In a sentencing memo filed in court Friday, June 8, 2012, federal prosecutors asked that Greig, 61, be sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping him evade authorities during 16 years on the run. Sentencing is scheduled for Tuesday, June12. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)

US seeks decade sentence for Mass. mobster’s lover

Denise Lavoie · June 8, 2012 8:56 pm