I agree, and I've also used this as an argument. But it's still a great scene though.
An interesting detail is that Roth says that he came home to vote in the presidential election which indicates it was 1960.
The extra's on the blu-ray also confirm this.
"Little Man - Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life," the outstandingn biography by Robert Lacey, has a photo of Lansky's arrest at Miami International Airport that, as you might expect, FFC reproduced perfectly in II.