If any of you are out in Vegas on August 9th, or live there, I'll be doing a presentation at the Mob Museum on August 9th on the Mafia in Cuba.

Mob In Cuba talk

Scott Deitche, author of five books on organized crime, will speak on The Havana Underworld: Mafia influence from Tampa to Cuba starting at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 9, with book signing to follow. The presentation is free with Museum admission. To make reservations, please call (702) 229-2734 or click here for tickets.

Havana was the first Vegas. Lavish casinos and exciting nightclubs transformed the tropical city into a top tourist destination, and a haven for the Mafia. From Lucky Luciano to Meyer Lansky, and Mob families from Pittsburgh to Chicago, the American underworld was deeply entrenched in pre-Castro Cuba. But few crime figures loomed as large as Santo Trafficante Jr. boss of the Tampa Mob. This talk examines the Mafia in Cuba through the influence of the Tampa Mob from their early forays into Havana in the 1930s to Trafficante’s reign over the casinos and beyond to the Mafia-CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro.

Deitche’s books include Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld, and The Silent Don: The World of Santo Trafficante Jr. He has also written dozens of articles on organized crime for local and national magazines and newspapers. He has been featured on The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, A&E, C-SPAN, and both national and local news and radio shows.

The presentation is part of activities connected to the Museum’s Hot Havana Nights, a celebration set for the evening of August 7, honoring Cuban culture from its days as America’s Playland.

Is Jack Garcia going to be an the honorary Italian at the event?
Will children be allowed to attend and jump up and down on his stomach? I just tried to click for tickets to link is broken?

Who runs the Mob Museum?

Sounds like a cool event

Friends of Oscar Goodman's Admin.

Link works- I just clicked through.