Just weeks after his friend was killed in 1982, a South Shore businessman came face-to-face with James “Whitey” Bulger.
Michael Solimando testified in the racketeering and murder trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, saying the accused mobster ordered him at gunpoint to pay his friend’s $400,000 outstanding debt, the Boston Globe reports.
“We want our money,” 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.”
Solimando said he had little choice but to hand over the money.
“It was either that or get killed,” said Solimando. “I was sufficiently scared, I’ll tell you that.”
