Long ago Tampa had a thriving Mafia. Led by the Trafficante family it involved hundreds of corrupt Police, drugs, loan sharking, prostitution, and murder.
Well there no longer is a Tampa mafia but we’ve been saying for years, “who needs a Mafia when you have local Government.” And boy do we have a local government! This story, centered around our local judiciary, has been evolving for some time and local blogger extraordinaire, Michael H., puts the hit on for ya…
“What I’m curious about is Detective Bartoszak’s implication of “arranged suicide” in his affidavit. State Attorney Harry Lee Coe III committed suicide July, 2000. Coe had run up a six-figure gambling debt. He has been accused of disrupting a police investigation into the Tampa lingerie modeling industry.”
July 22nd, 2005 at 2:04 pm
I was trying to get Tommy to blog about the Greg Holder story since he is Mr. Tampa Blogger. I felt the details of the story were so confusing that I didn’t know what to make of this. The more I researched the piece the weirder it got. F. Dennis Alvarez, Rocky Rodriguez and Hank Coe have so many scandals and rumors around them that it is hard to know were to begin. Some guy on the internet even accused Rodriguez of running drugs in his exotic dance club. This story is truly bizarre.
July 22nd, 2005 at 2:37 pm
Tommy is more of a G Rated (well, maybe PG) Tampa blogger.
This is obviously a job for “Last Day of My Life”.
http://sullivan40.diaryland.com/
July 22nd, 2005 at 9:12 pm
Speaking of Alverez and co., anyone see the piece in mother Trib talking about the “scandal” surrounding the Make-a-Wish foundation?
September 13th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
Mafia worship is alive and well on your website!
What does the term ‘ethnic slur’ mean to you?
Can you tell the difference between movies and reality?
Italian bashing is when you find things bad about Italians, but you can’t seem to find anything good.
Try getting a life!
September 13th, 2005 at 3:30 pm
I think spaghetti is good.
My wife is Italian, I think she’s good too.
Tampa did have a thriving Italian Mafia and this post is about corrupt locals of all creeds and colors and comparing them to the past. Next time I’ll just say “organized crime by Italians” when referring to Italian organized crime. I wouldn’t want to offend your really great life by using the word “Mafia”.
Oh, pizza, I like pizza too.
Have a nice day!
t
October 18th, 2005 at 10:10 am
Reading the comments posted here, it’s easy to see that people interested in glorifying crime don’t have much going for them. How pathetic!
January 21st, 2006 at 9:18 am
Tampa’ s Orginized Crme Is fine and well
The power to take out a State atty to a prez….
trust me…Alive and well
January 21st, 2006 at 9:58 am
With all the 50’s - 80’s Tampa Mafia to be put behind after the death of Santos Trafficante, New C.I.A, F.B.I, State Atty Office ( Florida) Have come
up with one of the big “who’s who of all time…whw is the Boss. Tampa Court papers state, A Stefano Trafficante, Born in the late 60’s, grandson of Late Santos Trafficante and Joe B From NY, was Hiden from the word.
Stefano, A.K.A Steven T. Bodnar / Stephen Yale Mcneal / Steve Bogner
Was the person to take the name Trafficante and Put it to rest. IRS File that are made public show him as a Top 10 Lawyer linked to Henry G , long time friend of Trafficante, Builder, Invester. A grad of Stetson Law Collage in St Pete Fl, Top of his class
This person grew up in north tampa and was worth Millions by age 20. His stepfather, A Thomas Bodnar Adopted him under the order of Trafficante when he married Trafficantes “Little Girl” this is when the store starts to go blank.
I tracked This “Bodnar” to be as of Late 2004 , From Tampa To V.A Beach.
Some State including his people that he is flat broke. some state he is ” Just waiting” and is Still one of the most powerful people in Florida that spans around the world.
Who is the person? People who talked to said in north Tampa, That “Bodnar” past away in 2001. IRS and FBI papers state he lives in Chesapeake Va., and walked away from a Billion $ empire…..
I found that TRUE he is the bastered son of Mobster Billy B and Patty Trafficante-Bodnar, Making him the grandson of Santos Trafficante and Joe B in N.Y…..
How do I know. Ive known him for over 20 years . BUT havent heard anything from him for 3..
February 2nd, 2006 at 6:04 pm
WOW…Not many people visiting. Makes you think the web site is put out by the Feds.
Im a 64 yr young Business man from Florida…Question? Why do people comment on something they no nothing about…Example;
Michael Hussey- you are naming names that dont need to be brought up…
Tiney - OK you loke italian food…So
Wazza..u and LiL Tiny - You people are real bold tossing the Trafficante/Bodnar around…
As a business man in Tampa and Miami, also an MB in Lit from U.M I can tell you all….Know one person is correct.
LiL Lucy - Mr Bodnar would love to meet you. I know Steven Bodnar….Yes he is the grandson of 2 of the most Biggest crime fams in the US, and by age 18 was worth allot. This KID at 19 was on a role. Was it due to Grandpa Santos Trafficante?..Yes. But he kept it. Mr. bodnar ( who hates being addressed by that) ” Steve..Thats it” Proved to BOTH grandfathers that he pcould double what they did in life. With there blessing, Steve Bodnar passed
up 5 STRONG people in the crime work and became the New BOSS OF BOSSES. But why do people not know of Steve Bodnar in the crime Life?
Because he wants it that way. NOTHING, NOTHING goes down in this US of A
with out his Knowing. Non violent unless attacked. more business like, to the point that bank go to him.
Luckey…Your the closer of all. Steven Bodnar AKA Stefano, The name McNeal, and stating IRS and FBI’s is the stupiest thing a person could do.
The bad part 1. Your very Correct. 2. Youll die in less then a year
I dont defend mr bodnar. he Joined, Bought, and Sold my brother and I out
left us for broke. I for one would love to see someone take him out….But im not that stupid… He’s alive and well. dont know what town, but is watching
Good luck my old friend. Tampa would be a nicer place with you running it.
March 14th, 2006 at 10:45 am
It’s easy to see mafia-worship types have very little sense of reality; they apparently need the alternate reality they get in mafia movies depicting violence and immorality as common every day normal life
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September 25th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
obviously all of the small minded individuals who still look up to MAFIA figures and think that they are all powerful forget what Harry Coe did to thousands of people, many of whom were innocent and they also tend to forget cases such as Betty Lou Haber who’s daughter Lisa is married to a Traficante. Mrs. Haber did over 25 years in prison for killing her abusive husband and the Traficante’s did nothing for her. I myself am a victim of Coe who sentenced me to 27 yrs in prison for a crime I did not even commit followed by 10 yrs probation. After serving 13 yrs and 3 of my probation I am still being screwed by Coe and his people. I hope he’s burning in hell with the rest of his clan!
March 12th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Tampa Bay still has a thriving “crime family” although it’s not an italan mafia, just so no names are droped that shouldn’t be we will refer to them as “good ol’ boys” or what they are men of Business. the idea la Cosa Nostra is to conduct business secretly, the problem is movie,tv,news, books ext ext have marked the italan mafia so that anyone with an italan name is deemed la Cosa Nostra. trueth to modern day mafia is most “good ol’ boys” have no affiliation with a Crim family. (if you have a name you have a face)
local strip clubs, bars and night clubs would be ovious places to hide money on the other hand small businesses such as mom and pap stores ext ext would not be ovious to I.R.S. some one has to operate them, frount money to them “keep stock” and if you dig deep you’ll find that most are owned my the people that live in the big houses. example: in a small town just north of Tampa a small town called Dade City there are tons of small antique malls all owned by two men. to sum it up yes tampa has a crime family but you wont ever know who they are becuase there is no name to identfy them with. other than there just a cuple of good ol’ boys.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Trafficante had a illgetimate son that is living in Northern Florida ,suppousedly waiting for the right time to take power.This guy has lots of horses and maids .He is a jerl though and a crack addict .He is sure to go places though once he gets of coke,he is strung out.HE declares to once worked with the family but left .
April 5th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Harry Lee Coe III was a self serving politician. He screwed many people over for his own personal political career. His hard line on offenders was simply a ploy for votes. He punished people for life for minor crimes, first (and only) time offenses. In Harrys mind there was no reabilitation or redemption or value for anyone who came before him. I think Harry killed himself when he was being investigated because he could no longer close his eyes and not see the hundreds of people he wronged in our judicial system. He could not live with his conscense. Harry was not a good man, maybe at some point in time he had good intentions but in the end, he was corrupt, greedy, dishonest and had no integrety.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
This is 2007 Tampa Bay, the mob is not a Don or a capo, its TPD they have the market cornered.They are not as bad as the New Orleans PD(ever watch them on Cops?)they make the mob look nice.
June 18th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I knew Steve Bodnar, I dated this guys and came about this by doing a paper for school.
I dont care what anyone said above, Steve was a VERY GOOD GUY too me for the year we dated. He worked his family businesses and his own. This guy was a work and sex freak. He could partey. When I first meet him I knew he was in the mob, but all that I meet Mom, Dad, freinds are so sweet.
I meet him going to Miami and he lived in the condo I did. He drove the nicest cars, and dressed well…and always had a girl or two, or three under his arms. we went out and he stopped for me
We flew in his plane,traveled the world with him.
he always had cash, and BIG friends around him sometimes, and when he was in court fighting, he would deal with “family biz” after that
What ended it was I wanted a life…He wanted power and had it. I had to go when his grandfather died and he was tossed the key to all. He was the new “BOSS” if that what you people call it. I left when he was up for three, four days, flying every place money was to be made and always carried two guns on each side, gun in the shower, next too the bed, and when he came in the door, with four large people behind him giving me a ticket home,
i knew the end of us ended.
In my findings for my law degree, I have found the Steve surrounded himself with important people, and made them all rich. They turned on him. Some are dead, some are poor, and I dont know what ever happened to Steve
June 19th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
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August 19th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
‘dem mob boys is thriving-we ain’t profilin’
August 19th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
us mob boys is thrivin-we just ain’t profilin it!!!
September 5th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
My grandfather operated on a traficante after i beleive it was a car accident and im curious where i might be able to find information about it if at all possible?
September 5th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Papers to look through archives, Tampa Tribune, La Gazzetta . Try contacting the guy who wrote “cigar city mafia”.
January 1st, 2008 at 9:40 pm
I lived in Tampa twice during the 80’s and found that in retrospect it is the most corrupt city there is outside of new orleans. I lived there too, pre Katrina and hated every minute due to its corruption.
While in Tampa I ran health clubs and met many of these mobsters, many of whom were nice guys but many who were just thugs. The thing I noticed that really set me on edge was how blatantly corrupt the cops were in Tampa. There was a brazen arrogance and integrity breach with every single cop I ever met there.
There is corruption everywhere: Bollito numbers being run out of a Ybor City cafe, speakeasy gambling trailers in front of a renowned car dealership straight out of a movie set, big time drugs being sold in all the clubs in the city–BIG TIME.
I once sold a car to a reputed mobster who took me to the Key bank to close the deal. There I met his cronies at the bank , all of whom tried to talk me down on my car sales price on behalf of the mobster.
the women of Tampa are a bit unusual too, in that they appear to be among the most submissive of women I ever knew and among the most willing to have sexual relationships for fun…The place is a mobster’s paradise the way i see it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
You have fucking got to be kiding. La Gazzetta, H Coe, Scagllioni, Bonanno,
Key Bank, night clubs, law firms, HEALTH Clubs, titty bars..,
No PROFIT??? Then why do it? A basterd son in north florida.
Tampa PD corrupt?
He’s still watching and waiting. Dude., GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE AND DO WHAT YOU DO BEST! WHY walk away. You call, you keep in touch, But nobody, NOBODY, not even these ass holes… It will always be your. you will never lose waht is in your blood. Make Tampa what you grandfather made it 40 yrs ago. Time to come home, before there is no home.
I hope you see this my friend as we all are still here.
Note to above: Your ALL WRONG and CORRECT. But who is what???
January 27th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I thought Vincent LoScalzo ran the Tampa mob.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
You should be sued for slander. And arrested for being so stupid!
February 14th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
HA HAH HA , It started at the top wit ” Old habits die hard” Yes they do.
Let me say that I was an employee of Santos Trafficante then Loscalzo
and Bodnar that HAS a story to it. I am 78 years young, spent 4 years in prison and know all these people. I started in 1968 working for Trafficante as , a Lookout, a ” GO GETTER ” for Santos and did for years. Never made anything big from it. Saw allot. Did allot. Ah thats how it was. NOBODY will tell you what I know. I did my time, So Listen up.
EVERY last one of you are correct BUT… NOW THE TRUTH. And after 2 book, and these cable channels today.movies, A book from Frank Ragano that was more on Santos…But people don’t know all…well here it is. ( hey I’ll be dead of this cancer in a month. Whata I care) Santos had a bastard child. Pattie. Pattie
had Steven and Santos DIED folks in 87. LaScalzo was boss. I worked with people that that worked with LaScalzo and in 97 ( we all remember the trials…Key Bank) I was charged and looking at life..My people let me hang. Didn’t even offer help or offer to front a little cash. Im sitting in court and in walks Stevie. sits at the back of the room, when after him four lawyers I never saw looked at me and said ” we are here by Mr Bodnars request” and seven charges that got dropped, but one and I served 4 yrs. Now I new Stevie he was a good kid. Yes he is a Trafficante, Yes Santos is his LOST grandfather, and Yes was hidden from everyone..( There Mr Author, Didn’t do all your home work) . LaScalzo yes he is BOSS, but ran it into the ground. Titty bars, loans, drugs.. small times when put up to the old days. Steve made it with a name and low key deals. oh I could go on.
People the best part is BODNAR , S Trafficante III , and LaScalzo NEVER MET!!!! Steve went worked hard doing all that is above but had his own thing going and nobody knew…But the feds. Steve worked Tampa, miami, New York, Cleveland, Chicago, and so on with so called mob bosses with investments, hotels, charter services… It was like the kid was making them go straight by going BIG. All legal. LaScalzo never wanted to do investment . In and out of court. Key Bank issues with all. Steven Trafficante Bodnar NEVER served time. has yet to be ACCUSED of being a boss. Yes people remember him as a nice and mean guy. BUT, when mobsters are getting 25 to life and I get 4. Everyone in that room, Trafficante , LaScalzo , Dennis Alverez…all looked at Steve as if ” what the hell” . SO WHO IS THE BOSS!
I got out in o, 2001. Steve called me and said “Im flying in to miami and I want to see you before you die you old bastard” Big nice two engine plane and Stevie walk off by himself wearing jeans with holes in the knees, and polo shirt and tennis shoe. He walks up hugs me and says ” I want you to meet some people” we went to the Fontainebleau and Steve walks in, everyone looking at him and is seated the fastest ive ever seen, with four Cubans, And I end the story as its still in the works
Yes Steve is waiting, broke ? I say never two smart. Hiding ? Na. This was a tough kid. deals with movie stars, rock stars, business men from around the world. YES. he is steps above Tampa, NY, all.. and you say ” well what is he waiting for”? Who is he”
I’m an old man that lived it since back in the 50’s. JFK, Kings Court, Key Bank
I’ve seen it all . I’m real. I was there and will never forget a good friend that never looked away. Stevie. Mr. author, Go write a book on that. Look deeper, call Steve. This kid is about to make Las Vegas look like Lutz. He has people he’s with that want to build casinos and hotels around the world. you wish you knew him, you could write three books.
Ay one person ever ask each other…What happens when Castro dies. and who will have the upper hand
Nick
April 29th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Nick, real interesting! Thanks for the info
May 30th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Hey speaking of this Key Bank thing, does anyone know where I can get more information on the details of that? I was young when it all was going on, but I remember it being in the news. Please leave any info on here where I can get more information… Thanks in advance.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:16 am
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August 6th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
stevie you did it again. this 78 year old man knows. lascalzo your shit. let gotti tell you your friends and he moves in. and slaps you in the face. steven bodnat aka what ever steve trafficante bodnar - steven bodnar - you got them out. with only a small task force looking into org. crime you spoke german-russian-spanish and deal with the like of china - russia - japan. and always said keep an eye out for china. gotti will be in a fl. prision the rest of his life when all over.
just for stepping foot in tampa. steven bodnar deal with smart guys like anthoney salerno - gennaro langella - carmine pesico and walked away to build a smoother life. call an old man my friend before i die - i still never said thanks
as for the wise guy with key bank - santo III was involved with that - and nobody will talk of it.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:22 am
the little *itch with Jo-Jos’ son Jo’ Jo JR, are still living in st.pete. she runs a “matchmaking service” from flemmings, malios, the thitian inn (still) hangs with the owner of the dog track in st.pete R.W…. , her clients are going down hill fast, and theresa is still a coke head. hookers are the new speciality, oh and the classic “fishing clubs” for the local YC’s &CC’s are how they work their money. terry you said youve delt with 200 girls like me, well im #201 and Im singing like a bird.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Well Nick I have seen alot of Mob guys killed in my life time many from cancer others heart attacks and other diseases and of course the many gunned down in their wars between Families as the public already knows Alverez, Coe, among many others have been mob connected. We all know the Tampa Courthouse is riddled with mob connected Judges as well as the US Dist Court. myself as a God loving and fearing man seems to be the right thing to forget the book writing for now given you have Cancer and are dying why not make it right with not only the Public here But with God your Maker. O yeah many don’t think there is a God I forgot, wonder why it is then All the Stars in the heavens resemble images of mankind must be some big mistake that only appears to us as we look up at the Stars. This is a new Era of Big Brother and a Newer one in the makings called A.I. While the Governments used the mob in the past for many of its dirty Task JFK, Hoffa,Cuba which once Castro is Dead nothing much will change there, his brothers and their son’s are ready to take over.Cuba will never trust the US Gov or the Mob again that I assure you and I’d bet if Stevie builds a empire of Cacinos there he’ll be just the Pawn Like Vagas wacked as soon as the empire gets underway. Not sure if you Love America as many of us do or that you have kids or grand kids. We all know that in the interest of National Security many things our Gov does or can do is kept hidden from us all.With this new wave and threat of terror in America its come to a point wherein if Americans don’t seekout and find the root of state and Gov corruption and expose these players publically perhaps in as little as the next three years you might not have a America anymore. Its long been predicted that world war,or new world order with society of Slaves ran by certain wealthy families which arent mob families will rule the earth.The next threat is the Earths changing course predicted by some to perhaps destroy the entire planet others say it will just shut all power down as we know it. Meaning anything ran by power will be useless. Whatever our fates about to be the evidence is clear and its near. And those at the vary top levels have and will use who ever or what ever to lay blame.As industry advances the need for human slaves becomes less needed industry takes your place and your job. To tell its near is the shifting of money, power to conceal thanks to GW BUSH jobs sent overseas and imported low wage labor.And to think democrats will change it all is a big joke. Freedom can still win God is on our side but the cost right now is vary high and its due to low level corruption bogging down our justice system by its corruption.While many think of mob as high level crime its not its med level. The High levels are the royal families in the making of the new world order. Hell Nick do the right thing use some other name here and just post the list of corrupt people here you know of no need to say anything else just list their names for the public to see so they can no longer hide and destroy our great nation and freedom as we have enjoyed because trust me in the NWO there will be no room for mobsters or anyone else who wants freedoms from Gov and the ability to make big money and have comforts in life.My father to was murdered with a cancer, I to am being murdered, look on the JFK home page look at all the witnesses who were murdered shortly after he was murdered and look at how the list of witnesses were murdered.I always respected that the Mob wasn’t communist but looking at the pattern in our history leading up to an now theirs a pattern our nation was soild out to the communist as JFK unfolded.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Thanks, twospooktwo.Glad to hear Mob’s not communist. Because the Communists are a threat to the American way of life even more so today. Eagles Up!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Great blog. Both my parents are Sicilian and they can tell you why the mafia are evil. What kind of people like extortionists? Killers? Even in some ways terrorists. To think they have this rep of being religious, God fearing men in ludicrous. If there is a God, I am pretty sure I know where he is sending them.
January 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
twospooktwo.i hear what you say. our goverment is in sad shape. jobs lost everyday,big comp. moving out of u.s. you are so so correct, BUT let me clear the air as to what you say.after my post and as i said i fear nothing. i sould be dead of cancer two months ago.after my post a car pulled up with two guys i knew saying “nick< lets go to lunch” as i got in nearly pissing my pants we pull into a resturant and there is my young book and street smart friend. i ask what the hell are you doing here? knowing is was the bogg thing. “nick, how the hell are you” “whats this email shit i hear about? the one you put my name out there and life story that your saying on medication”. i told him i didnt think he cared. ” i dont, but i dont have a pot to piss in, i just after paying allot of money to keep my name out of everything. the gotte thing, the irs leaves me alone, and i havent seen a crown vic parked in front of my house in a year.” i tell him im sorry and what now? he looks at me laughs and said ” we eat. then you go home to dye of cancer and i go home and try to look normal.” we talked about how he called this country going into a downfall 10 yrs ago, and the war. i asked what do you think of this obama guy? ” “i think he has balls, he’s black, qustionable, no experiance,and the USA has gone to shit” ” i wouldent want to be in his shoes” i asked what of bush? he told me three people piss him off and bush is one of them. ” this guy pushed us into a war we cant get out of, hell he even went into the wrong damn country. kids losing there lives over a vendetta with bush sr and sadam. they got him now get the hell out”. i asked you like obama, he said he wanted hillbog to win. “we need someone the other countrys will talk to. we now have issues.” we talked more then i asked- who are the other two that piss you off. he replied ” michale and t.j. his younger brothers and how then stole money from the dead body of his step father in vagas and took a diamond ring he gave his mom that when she died the other took of her finger and gave to a girl. ” i havent seen nor heard from those little shits and dont want to. nick, i need to go” and he left. but i sat down and asked . if he doesnt have a pot to piss in. then why is there a limo outside for him to get into and the rolex on his wrist gold with diamonds all over it, i know he got for around 50k 7yrs back. well “twospooktwo” in talking more with him, i can tell you russia, cuba are two places he speakes with and i still say as i know for a fact rafel want to open up after his brother dies. he and him are friends and dont trust each other. but will go with there plans. russia,,,,( he ) i remember dealing with them and they rely on USA. he always said ” keeep an eye on china” “slanty eyed little bastereds, i dont trust them” i once told him he should run for office. he laughedand said ” well grandfather took them out of office and i help put them in.,,, no never,,,id make americans get off there ass and work. no toyota, no outside at all. id be a dick but we would be power houses. i did ask what he did to help bush. he looked outside the window and said ” i fucked up there” browerd county will never be the same” i didnt get it till now. the say everyone that was brought up with jfk got murdered. sam giancana and santos was the last two. till sam got a bullet in the neck in 1975. so you tell me. who do you trust now? did you know bush sr was head of CIA back in the day. power is lost, gained, and hiden in our lives with the mob. things ive seen havent happen since, oh,,,, he took over,,,and walked away. who do tou trust the most?
April 7th, 2009 at 10:17 am
HOW???? How is there a person people know and talk about not be listed any place. I have read and read on this Stefano Trafficante, Steve Bodnar, Etc. and because of my boss I was terminated me after 10 yrs of service. I have a sister that works ” for a agent that is with the goverment. EVERYTHING is sealed and/or password protected. I know the “T” people. They tell me,, that is 50% say “who?” 40% look at me funny, and 10% say, ” Dont go there”. A Very, Very close person with “THEM” told me that S.T. jr had girlfriend in Miami, at the Fontain Bleu and that IS when things get so lost and is like looking at a tree that split. Then BAM… It hit me. This is the person that my boss knew and did biz with in Miami & Tampa as we are in both citys with real estate listings. This guy came walking in our office driving an old beat up truck, tennis shoes, and a bowling shirt, w/a cut off tee shirt under it. He was nice, cute, quiet and sat waiting for my boss to go to lunch ( this is back in 2000) and asked if I was going to lunch with them as I said “no. I dont get asked to go to lunch w/Mr. “D**Z”.” He said “well that peanut butter is not a full lunch” and that I needed to ” go away… leave my deck for lunch… un-stress and come back and the day will go faster” Mr. D**z came out and told me he would be at Malios if needed. This Steve asked if I could go with them and my boss said ” a phone girl? hell no, .. lets go Steve” and walked out the door. This Steve looked at me and said ” Damb, he’s still an ass to the people that make him look good”, then left with him. About 2 min. later the gentalmen that was a lawyer next door came into the office raising hell about his “junk truck” parked out front of his office and stated he would have it removed. An hr. later a tow truck pulls up, with a Tampa cop and REFUSE to move the truck and thats when my boss and this Steve pull up. Steve goes straight to the cop and shakes hands with him and says ” hay i’ll be over your house after this so we can finish that sod in your yard” The lawyer looked at this guys and started turning red and saying how sorry he was. All left and 5 min later a kid pulls up with a bag, walks in and said ” Hi, this is from steve, its a tuna melt and here is a menu ” call when I need delivery” I said, ” But you dont deliver” We do for you.” Later that day I asked “who was that guy? ” My boss replyed “Thats Steve, and knows the law in and out, he’s the guy that all the property your listing for the past two weeks is his”. The file I had was an inch thick with listings from homes, condos, hotels, and a file with shots, diagrams of 2 miles of land in Cuba. BIG names like Wynndam, Turnbarry, Trump, Hilton, Etc. was in it. and an island in the Grand Bahamas, and Panama.
I didnt see this person again till 2005, maybe 06 when a limo pulls up, this same guy walks in with a suit to die for, looking damb good, passing me and into my bosses office, slams the door and is going off on him about how Turnbarry had sold 50% of the Bleu to “towel heads”, that he does Biz with and why was he not called in Va. about this? they come out and Steve is yelling so loud that everyone is running in the back office to call the police as they came and saw who it was…and sat there… not doing anything. “The Bleu is going to be turned into a joke he is yelling.” You sold what Steve Moss was keeping what I wanted kept out of the lime light.( Moss a businessman from Miami). “your done,.. out of biz, and if I lost the Cuba deal w/Raul…” and left. A day later we are closing our doors as a company out of Vegas & Jersey took the acount, and I mean they walked in the door with 10+ people, lawyers, cpa’s and removed boxes. We closed the doors,and all got layed off. I was crying when a guy comes to my car when pulling out and gives me a card and told me” Steve said you are to call this number. You have a job waiting for you with these people” I have worked here 3yrs and love it. I just saw how our prez. is in Turkey, but had time sign PW for the doors to Cuba & U.S are open. My boss walked up to me yesterday, gave me a raise and stated that a BIG cliant wants me to over see the hotel biz that will Bloom in Cuba in the next 2 or 3 yrs.+
Anybody, know what is going on??? why cant I find him ??? Oh, and I never got to that you for the Tuna Melt Mr. Steve if this is due to you. FYI, my old boss sells real estate in Brandon for a company. Went from a Big home on Davis Island to a studio apt, drives junk cars and his wife left him. A. Soto
April 18th, 2010 at 12:26 am
I understand what your saying Nick I hope I do I don’t think much of Bush either none of them. I hope your still alive cancer is a bad disease i lost those near to me die of it seen people die other ways, it takes courage to know your dying and not totally loose it. The Mafia our thing its all got to make for interesting lives for those involved willfully involved but then kids that grow up in that world just kind of do what their dads did its like that for all families no matter how they earn their living. Its all interesting and vary sad so many people die or died for a certain way of earning a living and doing business with each other kind of vary harsh punishment to hand out back and forth as family wars broke out over turff. No wonder alot of books and movies. But you know in my life time I met of lot of people.its said here a man can be nice and be mean all in the same breath and many Cosa Nostra have been said to be nice guys its clear these men knew how to make money and make deals the elder in your younger days Nick were likely the true Masters they didn’t envolve drugs or outsiders and they kept the Peace they each had their lot.
I guess those of us with their eyes open have long seen the court house was deeply riddled with Mafia connected corruption as was all the police agencies in this area and others. S.T. had a hudge circle of connections not just in Tampa but throughout the state. Its actually good to see the younger generations investing in good legal investiments maybe the blood spilling will forever stop. Its all amazing more so in the early days my how hard times where jobs few and tough if people didn’t belong to some group or club or gang they were likely screwed and went hungry alot. I for one seen good things in all this as well as the bad the worst being the killing each other off one by one or sometime groups killed. for really what paper, words, to be feared, to live better than the rest or among the best and things that millions do not just Mafia members many do things to get and have things they didn’t really get with any real honor. From the above ask question a few ask who has taken T.S. place of power after his death. Well look close TPD and the most of the Judges in the Tampa Court House not the few unless they are totally new to Florida then i’d question their backgrounds in detail. We know there are a Few Judges in the Federa Court House and that blacklisting clients in Tampa by Judges, Layers, Cops just takes just the snap of the fingers at worst a visit to the right person and its done what ever the matter. Myself I seen a Judge take over of old Mafia business in Tampa in that police and courts are getting their cuts and more and its grown fast ST was slowing down the lawyers and judges getting bolder and slicker.l
April 18th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Good ol Boy: humm you think you fool us Cosa Nostra means nothing about screct business it means “Our Thing”. And do you really thing we are so stupid that we don’t know their are two organized crime networks at Play in Tampa Florida. See you think you know but you don’t if you did know then you’d also know Coe did not commit sucide all alone, he was given a choice he could not refuse. Every one seems to forget that over 1450 complaints where filed with US ATTY Prez who ended his investigation claiming no court house corruption telling those 1450 people they were all liars and they all put their lives in harms way for nothing. Your right about one thing the good ole boys do have the main power. However like any crime network they to are riddled with rats, spys, How do you think it is each of these players gets off when they come under investigation with not so much as a day in jail. Your Right Tampa is Murder INC from killing old people with their doctors who are cronies to drug killings to pitting one bad guy to the other, mind games, staged auto wrecks, poisons, drownings what ever looks like a accident or just bad fate anything that looks like accidents or mishaps or normal fate. Coe was ratted out by his buddies because he became to much of a loose cannon who do you think tipped off the Media where do you think those guns went, do you really think that was the first time he had computers files deleted. Do you really think that the good ole boys are not going to be brought down if so your kidding yourself not the rest of us. I assure you their days are numbered and its well know they hold power in nearly every public office or service and not just State they have their cronies in the federal system to like judges, yes we know who they are what businesses they run where they live and play. See you you mess with the High Tech boys and their families they to never forget and have the ability to wreck entire worlds and not be detected because they are not about greed, money or power they are about doing whats right.. See like any gang of thugs they rat each other out and do foolish crap and talk to much in this case signal to much while they are being watched and their signals broken. Thinking they are being bugged they resort to other forms of communication when fact is they’d been better off in just keeping the Cosa Nostra and the good ole boys staying out of organized crime. See you notice somebody unseated the power in the courthouse and trust me it was Not Holder who came in the game late and US Atty Prez who really did nothing but waste Tax payers money in his phony investigation. See I always look at the evidence and in who benefits follow the money the benefits who gains, who goes to prison who don’t. who gets the good deal on the next or last home, car, boat they bought. Then even without a money paper trail there is often still a paper trail court records of their tatget subjects they falsely attack, medical records, DMV records, work history records such as SSA and IRS, then the little device called polygraph, truth drugs, and the many ways to get people to talk even with their never even knowing it and not just with drugs. Then how easy it is to figure their next or past target victims and what happens. Cloak and Dagger games are best left up to the real Masters not good ole boys or Mafia trust me in the end they will loose. Investigations often take many years in these type cases but don’t kid yourself in thinking they don’t get caught sure some get away so what the ones that do will do enough damage to their criminal network they will tumble if not crumble. If the Mafia today were smart they’d stay as far away from these so called good ole boys who play both sides of the fence thinking their ratting two faced ways will save them in the end at least from prison or death. So far as Coe’s Death if you trust the Tampa Corners good for you, if you trust coe just killed himself over gambling and loans and deleting computers is reason to kill one self go ahead and think that. I look at who benefits and it seemed not just the public who were terrorized over 40 years by Coe benefits here you really think these demonic monsters care if the public benefits or knows somebody is or might be corrupt. See the guilty have no comment more times than not because they have something to hide and feel the less they say. But heck you know so much here about these good ole boys here good ol boy why don’t you be a real American and report what you think you know of course you could post it right here and lead them right to your front door with your chat name good ol boy, email, and IP and computers serial number of course the so called good guys are tracking everything said here and who says it but so are the bad guys you think they don’t do illegal wire taps have hackers of their own and access to high tech toys they do TPD as I recall were caught years back using illegal wire taps which should have been forever revoked from their department and any other local law enforcement in the Tampa Bay area because as it was said they weren’t the only department to violate wire tapping laws. The Mafia Bosses should Thank Bush for the order to share inter agency intel, now the Good Ole Boys can really network and get intel right from inside each agency after all the Mafia is shifting to legal investments leaving only the Good Ole Boy Criminal Network doing all the illegal crap and murders now the government, interpol and whatever other agencies have to mainly work on is the good ole boy network which nation wide has alot of pissed off Americans ready for revolution because they are sick of corrupt government and businesses so when you no longer even have a country to live in you can all blame public corruption and the good ole boys who feel they are above the laws so they think. Don’t blame the Mafia for the Fall of America don’t blame just Dem/Rep its both parties who are taking part in the good ole boy network. good luck to you and your good ol boy network I for one think your days are numbered and they are going to be real short. Its going to be vary interesting to see all the paper trails surface they think are hidden or nobody is looking at or just aren’t there and how well they match witness statements and known facts from investigations past, present. But your right Good Ol Boy small business does bring in good money but wrong if you think they can buy everyone at the IRS, yeah you didn’t know we knew IRS employees had been bought by certain Tampa Judges did you, like I said there is alot of unknown paper trails other than those named above, lol As the Ol saying goes you can fool some people some times but not all the time. And Yes we also know these same Judges and crooks in the good ole boy network have funded terrorist because the war on terror aides certain businesses they own due to the rippling effects of how money flows. See its going to soon come to a head those who talk first and loudest will get the sweeter deals those that don’t well say hello to our little friends in P, in the SPS. Like Nick said he didn’t care he was dying anyway you think others aren’t dying or going to die in the furture lol, Welcome to the new age of High Tech toys and the real threat of America crumbling due to public corruption and people smart enough to see if its not soon stopped you or nobody else will have a America anymore China or the USSR will take right over and you’ll wish you never heard the words Public Corruption. See if you’d have watched close over the Holder issue you’d have noticed the rats where already present in that criminal network long before Holder came into the picture, thing back to a big investigation in the 70’s let us know what you came up with if you lived in Tampa that long, I can tell you somebody did a lot of talking and a lot of showing off during that time like I said things take years sometimes you see people that should have been busted don’t always get out of it because they have money or power and connections its strange sorta how quick people will roll over when there is a real threat they will go to prison or have their own criminal network turn on them and likely murder them. See bottom line these criminal networks are the main reasons why America is crumbling from within how many poor people would still be alive, how many sick and hungry could have medicine and food and still enjoy the freedoms and rights they were lawfully entitled to had they not been wrongfully treated and violated. Not Tampa is just not a Mafia City any more your Right its A Terroist and Torture City Ran by corrupt Judges, Cops Lawyers, their Cronie Murdering Doctors yeah the ones that murder off the old people to get their homes to bring in tripple or more profits and other already sick people not just old. Tampa gives new meaning to Domestic Terror and Torture I would love to be a Fly on the wall if and when a day comes that all victims come forward tell their stories and someone in government actually protects these victims starting with the 1450 who filed Complaints with US ATTY PEREZ who failed clearly to do his job for whatever his reasons perhaps simply because he was really a mere coward or was paid off as many think but guess what he is no longer the US Atty now is he. Just think had Florida Not Been Such a corrupt State we wouldnt have had GW BUSH in the white house to send so many good young men to their certain death in a nation he was only out for oil deals from for himself and his good ol boy network then sold out his buddies in Florida after he and his brother gained power. Where would our Country be sitting had we not had Bush in Power who by the way will strike again later it will be interesting to see how they get Jeb in the White House wonder what state elections they’ll fix for that one or who’s pockets will be filled with cash or benefits. If the rest of the Nation were smart they’d force Florida out of the United States because Florida is nothing but a Nazi communist Slave State sucking off the backs of elderly and slave low wage labor and illegal drugs, whores, booze and whatever other devices it can conder up to steel back the low wages they do pay besides their high cost of living and housing and slumlord criminal network yeah we know about that to. See the people don’t need FBI or CIA or Police to know who the crooks are they aren’t as stupid as you think there are so many networks out there is no even funny and the fact is they are not all known yeah some people besides gov and criminal networks can keep secrets to lol. But hey like you say the good ol boys they are in charge of “Our Thing” Now and say piss off to the Mafia and their Cut, this will be interesting to see how it plays out and if they can find the years of rats planted in their networks which by the way isn’t just the good ole boy network or Mafia network like I said people are not as foolish as we might want to think. Like Nick i to am dead on my death bed now a few days left maybe too bad i won’t see it all busted apart and who rats who funny thing about rats they like street whores don’t ever have to know they are rats or ever say a word they can just be followed around and you can reep the benefits that follow them, johns, drug dealers so on it all works the same people.
May 24th, 2010 at 10:41 am
A stupid mafia well all ways be stupit, how do i protact my money i what to know from all this bad mafia.
May 26th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
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