Frank "Cowboy" Ippolito

DOB:

RAP SHEET:

6/14/66- bookmaking




OCCUPATION:

owned La Tropicana restaurant


ACTIVITIES: Invloved in bookmaking

Close associate of Henry Trafficante- ran bookmaking out of the Italian Club together.

Owned a house federal agents wanted to seize in the 1980's for his bookmakign activites...value of home...only $24,000

Reputed to have signed copies of April 2001 Weekly Planet article I wrote about the Tampa mob(with Frank's picture), and handed copies out to his friends.