10th Woman Accused Mayor Bob Filner; Closing Arguments in Whitey Bulger Case
MALVEAUX: The mayor of San Diego begins two weeks of behavior counseling today to deal with sexual harassment allegations. A tenth woman has come forward accusing Mayor Bob Filner of unwanted sexual advances. Casey Wian joins us from Los Angeles with more of the details. Casey, last weekend, you had chance to talk to one of women. Says that he pinched her on the butt. What does this woman say he did?</s>CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Suzanne, it's a little bit different of situation here. This accuser says that she met Mayor Filner in church, at a fundraiser for African refugees. At the end, she went to the mayor and reintroduced herself to him because she had met him before. And he looked in her eyes and took her by the hand, she said, and said, you're so beautiful I can't take my eyes off of you. And then, despite the wedding ring, he asked her if she was married and asked her if she would go out on date with him. While this does not rise to the level of some of the other accuser who said he had them in the infamous Filner bear hug and slobbered down their chin and outrageous things accusations, it does have a pattern that he would ask if they were married and ask them on a date in a very public setting -- Suzanne?</s>MALVEAUX: Explain what this behavior counseling involves. What will take place at this facility?</s>WIAN: I'm not sure to be honest with you. They are keeping the location secret. They won't discuss what kind of therapy he's going through. When you hear someone going away to rehab, you think they will be removed from daily activities. That's won't happen with Mayor Filner. He's still going to be briefed twice a day on what's going on in the city of San Diego. He still will retain control over the city of San Diego. He has delegated some responsibilities but it's a very strange therapy -- Suzanne?</s>MALVEAUX: All right. I know quite a number of people who are saying he should step down. We'll see if the therapy follows those complaints. Thank you, Casey. Appreciate it. We're also watching this. This is closing arguments being made. This is the trial of James Whitey Bulger, the alleged crime boss accused of 19 murders during his 20-year reign of terror in Boston. Each side has three hours to make its final case before the jury decides his fate. Over the past seven weeks, jurors have heard from convicted gangsters, ex-drug dealers, families of the victims. I want to bring in Deborah Feyerick, outside the courthouse in Boston. It's been extraordinary, right, the kind of detail you've learned from the people who have taken the stand. And now the defense just starting its closing arguments, yes?</s>DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's exactly right. The defense came out strong. They said is, why aren't some of the witnesses, the hit man, the enforcer, the killer, responsible for some 20 murders, why are they still out there? Why are they walking the street? They're playing to the jury's emotion, trying to remind them this should be shared equally. Bulger is not the only one responsible. That's what they came out as their first sort of salvo. But the prosecution took about three hours to make its case. And they said -- they tried to sum up seven weeks of evidence and testimony for more than 70 witnesses and how it relates to the 32 counts Bulger is facing. The prosecutor said, look, as leader of this organized crime ring, Whitey Bulger is legally responsible for all of it, either s a principal, aider and abettor, or as a conspirator. He implored the jury to find him guilty on every count. He said Whitey Bulger pulled the trigger over and over again. He knew where the bodies were buried, because he's the one who were there, when they were put in a dirt floor or shoved into holes where they were all found together. As for the extortion victim, the prosecution made it clear that Whitey Bulger took any chance he got to shack down people for tens of thousands of dollars and shoving a rifle into a man's mouth. They said Bulger's eyes would light up at the thought of it. The defense now has its turn. They're breaking it down and going back to the 1960s to show why the government was involved in this.</s>MALVEAUX: Right.</s>FEYERICK: Back when the Mafia was their priority and Whitey Bulger helped them bring it down -- Suzanne?</s>MALVEAUX: All right, Deborah. Sorry we're running out of town. It's an extraordinary case. We know he's not taking the stand. Ahead on NEWSROOM, a brutal beating on a school bus caught on video. Now there are questions over why the bus driver didn't step in.