Mob-tied lawyer to be released to halfway house

Loris Cavaliere, the Montreal defence lawyer serving a prison term for letting gangsters use his offices to conduct their meetings, will be released to a halfway house within a week.
In a hearing before the Parole Board of Canada on Wednesday, the 63-year-old attorney said the 34-month sentence he received on Feb. 1 was a harsh lesson and he had learned from it. The two parole board commissioners who presided over his hearing at a minimum-security penitentiary in Laval agreed that Cavaliere appe