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reputed mob boss james whitey bulger baci in the courtroom. today his alleged former hitman taking the stand. bulger allegedly ran an irish boston gangtx>situation like th killed everybody. everybody that works for me. well, convicted assassin john martorano confessed to killing 20 people. but served a relatively short prison sentence in exchange for his testimony today.
cnn s deb feyerick live for us in boston. deb, you ve been in the courtroom. what was it like watching these two men in the courtroom today? consid reporter: you know, it s fascinating. these are men who described their relationship as best friends. partners in crime. godfathers to each other s children. yet they did not make any eye contact whatsoever. the prosecutor asked, why are you here testifying? john martorano said the reason is because when he found out that james whitey bulger was an informant, he says, quote, it broke my heart. it broke all loyalties. so john martorano s key role right now is to place whitey bulger at some of the 19 murders. so far he s done that in at least eight cases. they were partners. what they would do is martorano was the one wielding the machine gun. he was the one who always seemed to be killing people while james bulger was the one in the radio car, trail car. so if anything happened he would sort of intercede or steer the victim in the right
dynamic to hear how these two were able to do what they did to gain supremacy back in the late 60s, early 70s in terms of taking over the streets of boston. deb, the jurors heard from another interesting witness, right? reporter: absolutely. this was the bookmaker. this was whitey bulger s bookmaker. it was so interesting. because it really looked like the two men had almost a fondness for one another. as court began today, they smiled at one another. they had been through a lot together. but as the testimony wore on, the bookmaker was very flustered. he was questioned repeatedly on cross-examination. had a hard time coming up with dates. hard time coming up with certain situations. but there were certain key points in terms of his relationship with whitey bulger that there was no doubt, no doubt about whitey bulger extorting money, having him pay rent, and about a partner instilling such fear in these people that they really controlled this is how they were able to conduct the