Cleveland mobster still alive, living in Florida. Living on same street as mob rat, allegedly

[Tonyd621]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.herald ... ate=ampart

[Ivan]

Great article, thanks. Didn't someone on here say Carabbia had his leg amputated recently?

[baldo]

Never saw that pic of Watts before. Looks like a real scary guy.

[Bruno187]

That place Watts owns is for sale 5.5 million.....down from 6.5 earlier in the month. Practically a steal.

[500YearReign]

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.

[500YearReign]

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