Interesting. I live in Tampa and sometimes wonder if there's still an Italian presence. There are tons of strip clubs around here and I figure someone has to be running those rackets. Are they left over from the Trafficante days?
If you guys ever come down here, you should take a walk around Ybor City and eat at Columbia. It was Trafficante's favorite place to eat.
The vast majority of the mob's remaining presence seems to be in the Miami/South Florida area.
I know about the Russian-Jewish mob in Florida, but figured the Italians were all dead or in jail.
I guess that why the local real estate radio show describes that part of Florida as "Bankers and Gangsters".
