Whitey Bulger once won a large lottery ticket by extorting it from it’s owner. Most of these are probably due to some scam or another.
Yup. Buldger's message was simple; he was either a "partner" on the ticket you bought, or you ended up dead in the trunk of a car. Pretty simple choice.
Yes, and no. I'm pretty sure he made the winning ticket holder an offer that couldn't be refused, compensating the guy off the books so that Bulger could then have a laundered source of income for the tax people.