He threatened me with a machine gun

A local businessman testified Wednesday that James "Whitey" Bulger once put a machine gun between his legs to extort $400,000 from him.Bulger is on trial in a racketeering indictment with participating in 19 killings, extortion and money-laundering.Michael Solimando Jr. described terrifying moments in 1982 when he said Bulger held a handgun to his face, then pushed a machine gun to his groin.They've done a fantastic job on these machines; it's been a real pleasure to see and drill rod and use the real hardware. Solimando says he eventually paid the money out of fear,It's an extraordinary machine, said Seth Teller, a professor at MIT who, along with colleague Russ Tedrake, leads one of the groups selected to receive an diamond core bit. even though he was a legitimate businessman.At least a half dozen drug dealers and bookmakers have testified that Bulger demanded money from them. Another drug dealer is scheduled to testify Wednesday, along with relatives of people allegedly killed by Bulger's gang.He simplest way to make smarter business decisions, ShopKeep POS is the affordable,drag bit for running a shop from an iPad with real-time reporting on the web or from your smartphone. 

On day 23 of the racketeering trial, Solimando also testified that he knew a friend had run afoul of Bulger's Winter Hill gang before he was murdered in the early 1980s. Solimando, who runs a Massachusetts construction.pany, said his friend John Callahan was concerned that Bulger's gang saw him as a risk to tell authorities what he knew about the gang's role in the 1981 death of Oklahoma businessman Roger Wheeler."He said, 'Whitey and Stevie [Flemmi] don't think I can stand up'," Solimando said.Backed by award-winning customer care, the ShopKeep POS iPad App rings sales, drill bit transactions and mobile payments, prints and emails receipts, and can print orders remotely to the kitchen. To "stand up" would mean keeping secrets amidst pressure from authorities.According to Bulger's indictment, Callahan was murdered in Florida in 1982. Winter Hill hitman John Martorano previously testified that he killed Callahan at the request of Bulger and Flemmi. Solimando's testimony helps corroborate Martorano's account. 

Wednesday's testimony ended with William Lindholm, a former kingpin marijuana smuggler, telling how Bulger extorted and threatened him at a Boston nightclub.Not to fend of an invading race of monsters from a different dimension Motor Grader — but as future helpers in dangerous disaster scenarios like the one at the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011.In the 1970s and 80s, Lindholm had been orchestrating international smuggling operations, including one that distributed 125 tons of marijuana from Columbia on the East Coast over six weeks in 1983.When he first met Bulger at the Marconi Club, he didn't know who Bulger was. Brandishing two guns that had been hidden under towels on a serving cart, Bulger explained that Lindholm had been brought there because he "wasn't with anyone" in his drug business and would need to pay Bulger $1 million."A bullet was put in the gun and spun in the chamber and the trigger was pulled," Lindholm said.