Mass. man arraigned in alleged Bulger victim death

WOBURN, Mass. - A Massachusetts man has pleaded not guilty to murder in the July 2013 poisoning death of an alleged extortion victim of Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

Authorities say Stephen Rakes' death was not connected to the Bulger case, but was the result of a business dispute.

Prosecutors say Camuti owed the 59-year-old Rakes money and lured him to a meeting where he poisoned his iced coffee with cyanide. They say he drove Rakes around for hours before dumping his body.

Rakes openly despised Bulger and blamed him for seizing control of his South Boston liquor store to use as headquarters for Boston's Irish mob in 1984. He had hoped to testify against Bulger in his trial.

Rakes' body was found in a wooded area of the Boston suburb of Lincoln on July 17, 2013, just a day after he learned he wouldn't be called as a witness in the trial.

Bulger was sentenced in November to two life terms in a broad racketeering case that included involvement in 11 killings.