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Maurice (Mom) Boucher was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on Friday for his leading role in a plot to murder Raynald Desjardins, an influential figure in the Montreal Mafia.

The sentence was part of a common suggestion presented to Superior Court Justice Éric Downs at the Gouin courthouse in northern Montreal by defence lawyer Mathieu Poissant and prosecutor Matthew Ferguson.

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“All is good,” Boucher said when asked by Downs if he had anything to say before he officially sentenced him.

Boucher, a former member of the Hells Angels, is already serving three life sentences for having issued orders that led to the murders of two prison guards and the attempted murder of another in 1997.

“Institutions (like penitentiaries) are not law-free zones,” Downs said in reference to how Boucher hatched the plot while he was in a federal penitentiary and Desjardins was waiting to be transferred to one. The judge also criticized Boucher for having “manipulated” his then-pregnant daughter, Alexandra Mongeau, to serve as his messenger.