Whitey Bulger Jailed, Rent-Control Apartment Freed

The FBI's arrest of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger and his girlfriend Catherine Greig in their Santa Monica apartment did more than merely capture a long-sought-after fugitive and charge him with a couple of dozen murders, extortion and a laundry list of other crimes.

It also freed up a rent-controlled unit in a pretty up-and-coming part of town. Not only can you walk to everything you need -- Bulger and Greig, who went by the names of Charles and Carole Gasko, managed to live there without owning a car (which frankly in Los Angeles is such a red flag we wonder why it took the FBI 16 years to find him). Remember, Los Angeles is a city where people take their cars to fetch the newspaper at the end of the driveway.