Accused Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger forced a former drug kingpin to play Russian roulette in the back room of a nightclub in 1983, according to testimony at the racketeering and murder trial, ...

And Boston mobster Whitey Bulger – the man Widner calls “James ... to safety but also visited them at their eventual home in ...

Among them is a real-life Boston gangster named Whitey Bulger, who is the mold for Jack Nicholson's character.