10 Places in Florida the Mob Used to Control (Most of Them Are Still Standing Today)

In September 1950 Meyer Lansky paid a 2,000 dollar gambling fine in Fort Lauderdale, then went back to walking his dog on Collins Avenue. From a race track on Bird Road to the Biltmore in Coral Gables, Capone's house on Palm Island, the carpet joints of Hallandale, the bolita rooms of Ybor City and the Fontainebleau suite where the CIA met the Mafia, these are ten places you can still drive past, with names and dates from Senate testimony and court records. Sources we used: • U.S. Senate, Kefauver Committee hearings, 1950. https://archive.org/details/investigationo... • U.S. Senate, Church Committee, Alleged Assassination Plots, 1975. https://archive.org/details/allegedassassi... • U.S. v. Lansky, 496 F.2d 1063, 1974. https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/repor... Archive photos via Wikimedia Commons (other photos public domain): Charlie Wall.jpg — HulaDolly, CC BY-SA 4.0; FL Tampa Oaklawn-St Louis Cemeteries HD entr01.jpg — Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 4.0; St Pete Beach FL Pass-a-Grille HD01.jpg — Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0; Tampa Classic Federal Courthouse (8472108564).jpg — 83DegreesMedia, CC BY 2.0. Maps: US Census, Terrain Tiles, Sentinel-2 by EOX, CC BY 4.0.