The Nation - News from Aug. 3, 1988
The last of a group of radicals convicted in a botched $1.6-million Brink’s holdup were given stiff prison sentences in a federal courtroom in New York. U.S. District Judge Charles Haight Jr. sentenced Marilyn Jean Buck, 40, to 50 years in prison and Mutulu Shakur, 37, to 60 years on charges that included their role in the October, 1981, holdup. Shakur was considered the mastermind of the heist, in which a Brink’s guard and two Nyack police officers were killed. A federal jury on May 11 found Shakur and Buck guilty of all eight counts of a federal racketeering conspiracy indictment that involved four murders, a jailbreak and armed robberies.
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