by 500YearReign » Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:57 am
There is a massive compound on Casey Key Road in Sarasota County that once belonged to mob hitman Joseph Watts, a favorite of legendary boss John Gotti. Watts was the backup shooter in 1985 when Paul Castellano was killed outside a Manhattan steakhouse, thus giving Gotti full control of the Gambino crime family.
For his loyalty, Gotti gave Watts a lucrative loan sharking business to Watts, who laundered $2 million through a Swiss bank account to build the Casey Key compound, which was a central focus of a 2002 federal money laundering case. Watts had money sent to him in tennis ball canisters from New York through the SRQ airport.
Watts — the man so mean he once threatened to kill Frank Sinatra to his face — is still alive, though currently incarcerated. As for his compound, it's still there, on Casey Key Road, in Sarasota County, where the active ex-mobster comes for quality retirement living.
There is a massive compound on Casey Key Road in Sarasota County that once belonged to mob hitman Joseph Watts, a favorite of legendary boss John Gotti. Watts was the backup shooter in 1985 when Paul Castellano was killed outside a Manhattan steakhouse, thus giving Gotti full control of the Gambino crime family.
For his loyalty, Gotti gave Watts a lucrative loan sharking business to Watts, who laundered $2 million through a Swiss bank account to build the Casey Key compound, which was a central focus of a 2002 federal money laundering case. Watts had money sent to him in tennis ball canisters from New York through the SRQ airport.
Watts — the man so mean he once threatened to kill Frank Sinatra to his face — is still alive, though currently incarcerated. As for his compound, it's still there, on Casey Key Road, in Sarasota County, where the active ex-mobster comes for quality retirement living.