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Bulger was indirect 'informant' for 'Departed' (AP)

FILE - In this undated file photo originally released by Warner Bros. Pictures, actor Jack Nicholson stars as Frank Costello in a scene from 'The Departed.' Martin Scorsese’s 'The Departed' was hardly the life story of Whitey Bulger. Yet the aura and influence of the Boston mob boss permeates the Academy Award-winning gangster saga, which co-starred Jack Nicholson as a Boston gang leader whose life parallels that of Bulger.(AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Andrew Cooper)AP - Whitey Bulger was an FBI informant. His life also informed one of modern Hollywood's more-memorable crime stories.