But in his turn as the star witness at Ireland's trial last year, McCord turned out to be a defensive and unpredictable witness. He painted a deeply cynical portrait of how business sometimes gets done in Harrisburg, testifying at one point: "This is a weird business. You say, 'You lie down with dogs, get up with fleas' – but you have to lie down, in a sense, with anybody in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to get stuff done."