11.   A former associate of Meneses said that cocaine was even flown to a US Air Force base in Texas.

12.   A former Atari associate of Bushnell, Jerry Jessop, found the consoles collecting dust in a Quonset hut in Dixon, Calif.

13.   A former associate recalls her as being obsessed with money.

14.   A half-dozen defendants had pleaded guilty rather than face a jury, and several of them agreed to testify against their former associates.

15.   Actually, it appears that Arkadin is using the investigation to locate former associates and have them killed to keep them quiet.

16.   Again, he looked up his former associates but learned that some had disappeared, he said.

17.   Bulger personally shot him, one former Bulger associate testified.

18.   Bulger himself shot him, one former Bulger associate testified.

19.   But former associates said he had grown tired of battling with production officials over safety issues, like how often to sanitize the juice tanks.

20.   But former associates contend that Weaver sought to benefit from her ties to Herman in seeking various types of business.