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Agreement gives Greig little leeway, legal observers say

Greig set to enter plea Wednesday in federal court

By Milton J. Valencia

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 14, 2012

After 16 years on the lam, James “Whitey’’ Bulger’s girlfriend Catherine Greig will now lay her fate before a US District Court judge. As Greig prepares to plead guilty in federal court to helping Bulger remain a fugitive, legal observers said Tuesday that federal prosecutors appeared to have given her little leeway in a plea agreement, and that US District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock will have the ultimate say in what kind of sentence she serves.

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