New knowledge has surfaced about Stephen “Stippo” Rakes , the man who was discovered dead the day after prosecutors put out the word he would not testify as a witness in the racketeering trial of reputed Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger.
Police say his murder may have had nothing to do with Whitey Bulger’s trial or his organized crime network of maniacal mobsters
Rakes who was supposedly the victim in a vicious shakedown involving the sale of his Southie liquor store === was poisoned to death with potassium cyanide put in his coffee
Jim Armstrong reports.
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