SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- As the joke now goes here, Michael Bongarzone could have been a millionaire if he’d just called the FBI. It was 2008 and Bongarzone was managing Sonny McLean’s, a Boston-themed bar styled to look like an Irish pub in Southie. The Celtics were in the playoffs, the place was packed, and a lonely old man kept to himself in the corner. "The guy had sunglasses and a cap. I had a feeling it was him," Bongarzone, 47, a Scituate native, said. "Him," in this case, was James "Whitey" Bulger -- beyond famous in Boston as a ruthless mobster, and, now, famous here as the guy the FBI came and arrested Wednesday night. The guy who lived in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach, the guy who managed to spend 15 years walking around without anyone knowing he was a desperately wanted man with a $2 million bounty on his head. "I wish I’d said something," Bongarzone, who no longer works at the pub, said. "I’d probably own that bar." And so the story went yesterday, scrawled in writing on the wall of McLean’s’ men’s room -- "Whitey Wuz Here" -- and dominating the barroom discussion in this seaside city, a touristy LA-area locale where locals say it’s easy to blend in...
