WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
Volume 11 Issue 165
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Federal judge won’t lift lien for kin of Bulger’s friend DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON A federal judge rejected a request
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MEETING: Public safety personnel gather at Wilshire Boulevard and Second Street on Tuesday after police shot and killed a stray mountain lion.
Police kill mountain lion in Downtown BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL Santa Monica police shot and killed a young female mountain lion that had wandered into Downtown Tuesday morning.
Members of the Department of Fish and Game first tried to tranquilize the 75pound animal, but officers opened fire when it tried to escape, said Lt. Robert Almada of the SMPD. The body of the animal will be transported to the California Wildlife Center in Calabasas, Calif., where officials there will
try to determine if there was any medical reason that the mountain lion went so far out of its normal territory, said Cindy Reyes, executive director of the center. Police first heard that the big cat had come to town when a member of the pubSEE LION PAGE 13
Planning to get first look at revised trailer park development BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL The Planning Commission is expected to consider a controversial development that would create a dense residen-
tial complex over what is now the Village Trailer Park, something residents of the park are fighting tooth and nail. The owner, Village Trailer Park LLC., proposes to replace the park with a mixeduse complex with almost 500 units and
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approximately 8,650 square feet of either office or retail space. According to the staff report, 109 of those units would be rent-controlled to SEE PROJECT PAGE 13
Tuesday from the twin sister of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s girlfriend to lift a lien on her South Boston home, saying the house could eventually be used to pay a court-ordered fine for helping Bulger while he was on the run. Prosecutors say Catherine Greig had a minority interest in the home before she transferred it to her sister, Margaret McCusker, after Greig was captured with Bulger last year in Santa Monica. McCusker lives in the home. Prosecutors have frozen Greig’s assets in case she is ordered to pay a fine when she is sentenced next month for harboring Bulger during his 16 years as a fugitive. She faces a fine of up to $750,000. McCusker’s lawyer, Richard Lane, argued that the lien on the home had left her unable to access a home equity line of credit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said he saw no reason to release the lien because McCusker does not plan to sell the house. He said the issue will be resolved after Greig is sentenced June 12. Woodlock also questioned whether Greig and McCusker were trying to shield Greig’s interest in the property from creditors or from being seized by the government by transferring it to her sister for $1 shortly after her arrest last year. Prosecutors estimate she has a two-ninths interest in the home, which has a total value of approximately $617,500. Lane said there was no fraud involved in the transfer. “We weren’t concealing or hiding anything,” he said. The judge did agree to allow McCusker to use money from Greig’s bank account to pay tax and maintenance bills on Greig’s Quincy home. Bulger is awaiting trial for his alleged participation in 19 murders.
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