You never heard those rumours? I lived right off Cordyon near Stafford as a kid so it was a pretty regular topic of conversation around there. I stopped hearing about it altogether early in the 00's, though. I guess most of those business that were attributed to the "mafia" were sold off. I heard a couple years later almost all the Corydon strip was owned by bikers and asians. No idea how true that is.

I was actually friends with an Italian kid who lived a couple blocks down from me who once claimed his dad was in the mob. I made fun of him once (I forget why, we were maybe 10 or 11) and he threatened to get them "after me". Like 20 years later and I'm still waiting.

Like I said, though, I looked into it as best I could and found nothing, at least nothing in print. I suspect there was a social group of italian business men who may have enjoyed the "myth" of their supposed membership in the mob. The social club is still there.