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On the witness stabled. i used to -- stand. i used to tell juries all the time, and i'm sure ashley will take shots, but i used to have to tell the juries, look, you want to know about plumbing, you call a plumber. you want to know about electricity, call an electrician. you want to know about a murderous mob group, you need to put a person on the witness stand. whitey picked these people as his friends, and we put them on. unfortunately, priests, rabbis and nuns don't usually show up as trial witnesses for you. jon: actually, if this guy was a rat for the fbi, this witness who received -- who...

Relationship to whitey bulger. >> steve rakes is from south boston. a very small neighborhood, tight knit neighborhood, everyone knew one another. he at one point owned a liquor store at a busy traffic rotary in south boston, and whitey bulger approached him at one point about buying the liquor store in order to have a place where whitey bulger and his gang could money launder cash through the liquor store. rakes eventually had gunpoint sold the liquor store to the bulgers under threat of death to him, to steve rakes, and the rest has been ongoing saga for 20, 25, 30 years, it's been going, un...