USA Today

Mickey D’s iced tea anyone:

Just in case you are considering being a witness against some two bit gangster and one of his cronies invites you to tea at Mickey D’s, you better think twice about it; you may wind up in a corn field like Stephen Rakes did.

Stephen was a guy that owned a liquor store in South Boston that the Mighty Whitey Bulger wanted to commandeer from him when Bulger was in his heyday taking the Booos-ton  to the cleaners.

He looks a little rough now; too many years on the run took it’s toll.

With his life on the line Rakes figured he better play ball with the mobster because owning a liquor store if he were dead doesn’t make much sense.

Years later after Whitey and his main squeeze Cathrine Greig were arrested and brought back to Boston to pay their dues; Rakes co-operated with the authorities and agreed to testify against the Boston Strong Armed Bulger.

After all Bulger had a reputation that preceded him with 40 notches on his pistol handle and those are only the ones that authorities know about. Rakes didn’t want to be # 41.

Bulger is only being charged with 19 of the 40 murders. What the hell is another 21 murders among friends?

Stephen was bumped off by one of Bulger’s cronies names William Cumanti.

Billy and Jimmy go way back when they were small time hoods hooping tires off of cars and mugging old ladies. They had a thing going.

The authorities say that they do not think Bulger had anything to do with the poisoning but I think it is too much of a co-incident that the day before Rakes was supposed to “drop a dime” on Whitey, Cumanti invited Rakes out for iced tea.

After Cumanti poisoned Rakes he drove around for a couple of hours with the half dead guy in his car waiting for the cyanide to take effect. He final found a cozy little area in an urban area of Boston to dispatch his then deceased victim.

What the hell can they do to Bulger anyway; 19 or 20 murders; not a big difference. How many time can a person be put to death ?

Sweetened or un-sweetened??? One lump or two???