Businessman tells court that Whitey Bulger ordered him to pay $400,000 after his friend was slain

from Boston.com MetroDesk

A South Shore businessman testified in federal court Tuesday that only weeks after his friend was killed in 1982, James “Whitey” Bulger lured him to a dingy, South Boston bar and ordered him at gunpoint to pay $400,000 that Bulger claimed the friend owed.

“We want our money,” Michael Solimando said Bulger told him. “He pulled a revolver out and stuck it in my face and told me how disappointed he was that I hadn’t come to him sooner.” (Read the full story here.)

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