'60s Radical Boudin Granted Parole; Imprisoned 22 Years in Fatal Armored Car Heist

AP ^ | 8/20/03 | Marc Humbert

[Jean S]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Kathy Boudin, the '60s radical who has served 22 years in prison for a 1981 armored car heist in which three men were killed, was granted parole Wednesday.

Boudin, 60, a one-time member of the Weather Underground described as a model inmate in prison, had been denied parole just three months ago, as well as two years ago.

Thomas Grant, a spokesman for the state Division of Parole, said Boudin would be released on Oct. 1 or earlier, once her plans for parole supervision were set.

Grant said parole was granted by a two-member hearing panel after a 1 1/4-hour interview with Boudin on Wednesday afternoon at the Bedford Hills state prison in Westchester County.

In prison, Boudin developed a program on parenting behind bars and helped write a handbook for inmates whose children are in foster care. She also earned a master's degree in adult education and worked to help inmates with AIDS.

But her possible release had been staunchly opposed by the families, friends and colleagues of the three men who were killed - Sgt. Edward O'Grady and Officer Waverly Brown of the Nyack police and Peter Paige, a Brink's guard.

After the parole hearing earlier this year, the sergeant's widow, Diane O'Grady, said: "She played a very pivotal part in that crime. Nine children were left without their fathers. We want her to serve life."

Boudin, daughter of civil rights attorney Leonard Boudin, became a radical activist in the 1960s. She was recruited for the Brink's robbery by Black Liberation Army members and other radicals who apparently wanted to have white people driving the getaway vehicle, a U-Haul truck, to throw off pursuers.

In the robbery at the Nanuet Mall, $1.6 million was stolen and the security guard was killed. The police officers were gunned down when their truck, with Boudin in the passenger seat, was stopped at a roadblock and the gang burst from the back of the vehicle with automatic weapons firing.

Boudin was apprehended as she fled, pleaded guilty to felony murder and robbery and was sentenced to 20 years to life.

She had told the parole board in 2001 that at the time of the robbery, she thought the money would be used "to help the black community."

She said she wasn't armed and was terrified when the gun battle ensued. And she said there was no way "to pay the debt for my being involved or participating in the crime that destroyed families and destroyed men."

After Boudin was denied parole at her first hearing in 2001, a judge ruled the board failed to take into account the recommendation of the sentencing judge that she be paroled after 20 years. That ruling led to the May parole hearing at which she was again denied parole. Wednesday's hearing was her regularly scheduled appearance before the parole board.

Boudin has a grown son, Chesa Boudin, who was just 14 months old when she participated in the robbery. Raised by friends, he graduated from Yale University in May. Last December, he had been named as one of the winners of prestigeous Rhodes Scholarships.

AP-ES-08-20-03 1649EDT

[laconic]

Little Miss Radicalmarxist "thought the money would be used to help the black community"? Well, the robbery she supported killed a black man, I would hardly call that "help".

[Rodney King]

Boudin has a grown son, Chesa Boudin, who was just 14 months old when she participated in the robbery. Raised by friends, he graduated from Yale University in May. Last December, he had been named as one of the winners of prestigeous Rhodes Scholarships.

No doubt because they people who selected the scholarships have sympathy for his mother.

[Moose4]

One wonders if the families of the slain officers had an opportunity to testify in front of that parole hearing. And this article neatly skirts around whether or not she ever showed remorse...my guess is no.

Oh well. Hopefully, at least, since she's a convicted felon she won't have the right to vote in New York...the last thing we need is another Hillary!(tm) supporter out there.

}:-)4

[Jimmy Valentine]

Her little whelp was raised by other Weathermen activists who have wormed their way into the academic community.

[Poincare]

Boudin has a grown son, Chesa Boudin, ....

Raised by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn.

[laconic]

The New York Times published a laudatory article about the stepfather William Ayers, in which he basically bragged about having bombed the Pentagon while a Weather"man" in the 1970s and of course, this wasn't of great concern to the Times. The problem for the Times was that the paen to this cowardly bomber appeared on the front page of its morning edition for September 11, 2001.

[Little Bill]

Who would have guessed? These red diaper babies are self perpetuating, look at the Rosenbergs.

[eleni121]

Last December, he had been named as one of the winners of prestigeous Rhodes Scholarships.

"prestigeous" - no such word. NO doubt Mr. Humbert is also a graduate of Yale, a prestigious university that turns out poor thinkers as well as poor spellers.

[stop_fascism]

One wonders how many of the slain officers children went to Yale.

[GETMAIN]

Wasn't there a Law and Order episode based on this?

[Poincare]

...stepfather William Ayers, in which he basically bragged about having bombed the Pentagon while a Weather"man" in the 1970s ...

I strongly doubt if he ever did. It was his style to entice a woman to do the bombing.

[eleni121]

No doubt because they people who selected the scholarships have sympathy for his mother.

I wish it were so. Like parents like son. He got his scholarship because of his own sick and twisted ideas.

His words: "As a child, I relished my personal freedom and tried to compensate for my parents’ imprisonment. Now, I see prisons around the world: urban misery in Bolivia, homelessness in Santiago and illiteracy in Guatemala."

[Rodney King]

" Now, I see prisons around the world: urban misery in Bolivia, homelessness in Santiago and illiteracy in Guatemala."

As if the rest of us don't see that.

[eleni121]

One more telling article on the amoral twerp the terrorists spawned.


http://slate.msn.com/id/2075224/

[muawiyah]

Why wasn't this woman executed?

[vpintheak]

Yep, commie scumbag through and through.

[mallardx]

Thanks for posting the Slate article...it mentioned how the Slimes didn't bother mentioning how the nine victims of the robbery couldn't be with their parent. The vile scum of this country need to be outed, we need to post some names and shame these people into obscurity. It's a real shame the three robbers weren't executed in NY prisons, they certainly deserved it...

[mallardx]

from http://www.ogradybrown.com/:

On October 20, 1981 heavily armed terrorists staged a daylight assault on a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall in Nanuet, New York. In the attack that followed, Brinks guard Peter Paige was killed and Joseph Trombino seriously wounded, nearly losing his arm to the gunman’s bullets. Another Brinks guard, James Kelly, suffered wounds and a concussion as the gunmen pumped automatic weapon fire into the armored vehicle.

After leaving the mall the gunmen fled east, ditching their getaway car and entering the rear of a waiting U-Haul truck being driven by co-conspirators. This was an attempt to escape detection, as the participants knew that the police would be on the lookout for the male blacks that robbed the armored car. The gunmen were to be driven to safety by white accomplices, thinking they would easily escape back to New York City in the confusion immediately following the robbery.

Unfortunately for them a high school student witnessed the switch from the original getaway car to the U-Haul. Looking out her bedroom window, she notified the local police and an alert was broadcast to officers on patrol.

Ten minutes later Nyack Police officers were conducting a roadblock at Exit 11 of the New York State Thruway. Spotting a U-Haul, they ordered it to the side of the road. The driver and passenger in the front of the U-Haul did not match the description of the gunmen at the mall. Further, police radio transmissions had broadcast reports of another U-Haul being spotted heading south into New Jersey on Rt. 304.

Kathy Boudin, an occupant of the U-Haul, complained to the police that their guns made her nervous. Apparently, thinking they had the wrong U-Haul, the police stowed their weapons and shotgun. At that moment the rear of the U-Haul flew open and half a dozen heavily armed killers jumped out, each with military-style fully automatic weapons. Police Officer Waverly Brown was hit immediately and died at the scene. Detective Arthur Keenan was struck before he was able to take cover and return fire. Sgt. Edward O’Grady was shot numerous times and died ninety minutes later at Nyack Hospital. Officer Brian Lennon exchanged shots but was seriously outnumbered and under heavy fire.

At the time, Nyack Police carried six shot standard issue revolvers that were no match for the firepower of the heavily armed terrorists. Tests later conducted by law enforcement found that the killer’s guns were capable of shooting over 100 bullets per minute. O’Grady and Brown were the first Rockland County police officers shot to death in modern times.

In the confusion afterwards the killers fled in all directions. The Nyack community was overcome with a feeling of grief as it prepared to bury two of its own. Many of the killers were caught that day, some in the days, weeks and months to follow. Kathy Boudin was captured by an off-duty New York City corrections officer, Mike Koch, who witnessed the shootout and her attempted escape as she had fled the scene running near the New York State Thruway.

South Nyack - Grand View Police Chief Alan Colsey caught three other accomplices after a harrowing chase. Colsey pursued two escaping vehicles operated by the terrorists along Christian Herald Road and Midland Avenue until one of the vehicles crashed into a brick wall at Sixth Ave. and Broadway. Reports indicate that the occupants attempted to fire their weapons at the Chief, but they could not locate their ammunition in the aftermath of the violent crash. The other vehicle, containing Marilyn Jean Buck, Mutulu Shakur and others, made good their escape that day, but the bulk of the stolen Brinks money was recovered in the vehicle at Sixth Avenue.

Most of the terrorists were sentenced to prison on a variety of state and federal charges, never to see the light of day again. Kathy Boudin however, entered into a plea agreement that guaranteed she would spend twenty years to life in prison before coming up for parole. Her parole hearing is scheduled for August 2001. She could be released by the fall.

We need your help. Please send Governor Pataki a message. Tell him not to allow the parole board to free cop killers. Kathy Boudin has powerful allies on her side, and we need your help.

[Bayou City]

Bump for later.

[witnesstothefall]

Bitch should be pushing up daisies for the last 20 years. Instead, the taxpayer has had the honor of sustaining this demon.

[xm177e2]

In prison, Boudin developed a program on parenting behind bars and helped write a handbook for inmates whose children are in foster care. She also earned a master's degree in adult education and worked to help inmates with AIDS.

That's wonderful! I think she should be allowed to stay in prison so she can continue her charitable work!

[Jean S]

We also paid for her master's degree. I suspect she'll be teaching at Harvard soon.

[Revolting cat!]

What a country! Kill to get free room and board, Mimi Farina concerts and a graduate degree!

[firebrand]

And Bernardine helped procure the guns for this slaughter.

[Poincare]

And Bernardine helped procure the guns for this slaughter.

I did not know that. Today Dohrn is trying to disarm Americans as a professor in the Northwestern Law School. NW gets no contributions to its alumni fund from one of my family members who went there. (And I won't contribute to U of Michigan.)

[jordan8]

Let's start a pool on which university will hire her.

[laconic]

We can put an end to the release of this murderer, folks. We've done it before, when the Manson-praising, cop-hating, commie-bootlicking, hellraising bolshevik Bernadine Dohrn used her "law" degree and applied for membership in the New York State Bar. The Bar was overwhelmed by letters opposing the admittance of this Red swine into a position of public trust, and they voted Dohrn DOWN AND OUT, despite high-priced lawyers speaking on her behalf! Send Governor Pataki an email demanding the closed-door decision of these two Parole Board members (taken with no testimony from the families) be reversed!

[Ed_in_NJ]

You may want to do a Google search on "leonard boudin" "hillary clinton" and see how the Beast is tied to the National Lawyers Guild, a known commie-front organization; Leonard was Kathy's commie father (per the CIA) and a major wheel in NLG.

[TroutStalker]

His Mother's Son -- For Chesa Boudin murder is still "activism."

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Friday, August 29, 2003

Posted on 08/29/2003 12:55 PM CDT by TroutStalker

As far as we know, Chesa Boudin (Yale '03) has never met Edward O'Grady III (Annapolis '97). Let's just say that they have a connection through their folks. Mr. Boudin's mother, Kathy Boudin, has been doing time for her role in the 1981 Brinks robbery in Nanuet, N.Y., that killed Lt. O'Grady's policeman-father, along with another Nyack cop and a Brink's security guard.

Normally a new college grad who was 14 months old when his mother was locked up merits some latitude. But young Mr. Boudin is not exactly shunning the limelight. A Rhodes Scholar frequently described as a "second generation activist" (as if murder and armed robbery constituted activism rather than criminality), Mr. Boudin has been profiled in People and is back in the news now that his mother has been granted parole.

In these media moments, Mr. Boudin freely dispenses instruction about what's best for the families of the three fine men murdered in the Brinks job: Sgt. Edward O'Grady, Officer Waverly Brown and security officer Peter Paige. With CNN's Paula Zahn, he said he and his mother hope that her release "can move this healing process, the reconciliation process, forward because that's ultimately the best thing for everybody."

Chesa Boudin

That was no stray comment. "Bitterness and anger can really consume us," he told the suburban New York paper the Journal News. "Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way." But he saved the best for the New York Times, where he likened his plight to that of the nine children left fatherless in the Brinks robbery-murders. "I also was a victim of that crime. I know how important it was for me to forgive." Mr. Boudin has said he remains committed to the ideals (minus the violence) that motivated his parents. But his remarks unwittingly reveal the hallmark of that ethos: narcissism dressed up as compassion.

Surely he comes by it honestly. With his biological parents in prison, Mr. Boudin was raised by one of their fellow Weathercouples: Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Mr. Ayers, you might recall, had the ill fortune of having his flip crack about his fugitive past -- "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough" -- carried in the New York Times the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

For her part, Kathy Boudin explains that it was her guilt over her privileged life and her affinity for black America that led her to that robbery. How ironic, then, that Waverly Brown, one of the two slain officers, was the first African-American on the Nyack police force. And Ms. Boudin's embarrassment about being to the manor born didn't stop her from letting her wealthy lawyer-father help arrange a clever plea bargain that today enables her to realize her freedom while others remain in prison.

Her son, meanwhile, urges those who are forever denied the kind of reunion that he will soon enjoy with his mother to "move on." But he's the one hitting the lecture circuit as an expert on parental separation. Meanwhile, the late Sgt. O'Grady's son serves his nation as a naval officer; Officer Brown's son is a captain in law enforcement and his two daughters served in the Air Force; and the other O'Gradys, Browns and Paiges live as productive members of society who decline to parade their causes or charitable works in public. In all worlds but the one Mr. Boudin apparently inhabits, simple decency would mean -- especially in the wake of his mother's parole victory -- leaving these people in peace.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Chesa is not 'second generation,' he's 'third.'

His grandfather, Leonard Boudin, was a known (to the CIA) communist lawyer/activist prominent in the National Lawyers Guild. He defended many of the most violent anti-American 'activists' of the time.

When she became chair of the New World Foundation, in 1978, one of Hillary Clinton's first acts was to make a grant of $15,000 to the NLG.

Kathy was NOT a new or first-time recruit for this robbery. In 1970 she was among a group that accidently exploded a bomb they were making; she fled the scene and was 'wanted' until apprehended during this robbery. During her trial she was defiant and uncooperative.

[laconic]

Yes, there was no "rebellion" by the children in the Boudin family -- they followed their parents' line without questions. There was a report in the NY Post that Miss Kathy Boudin was involved in the bombing of the Capitol building back in the 1970s and that she received a congratulatory call from her mother when she learned of it! Interesting what the rotten Red Boudins give back to the country that sheltered them and enabled them and their lousy brood to prosper -- a lot of hatred, everything negative, not a blasted thing of value. With regard to the Boudin's (and HRC's) National Lawyers Guild, also note that now dead far left congressthing Bella Abzug was a leading NLG member as was her worthless husband, Martin Abzug. As the National Review said commenting on Abzug's death, "She will NOT be missed".

[eleni121]

Let's start a pool on which university will hire her.

Sounds like fun. Maybe a university, maybe a foundation - the Rockefeller or Ford Foundation for the study of peace - will hire her. Or maybe she can be an analyst on one of the talking heads shows on PBS.