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Santo Trafficante Jr. (November 15, 1914 – March 17, 1987) was among the most powerful Mafia bosses in the United States. He headed the Trafficante crime family from 1954 to 1987 and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante Sr.
Oct 17, 2021 · Santo Trafficante Jr. claimed to have orchestrated JFK's assassination and was a part of a CIA plot with the mob to kill Fidel Castro. But President John Kennedy wasn't so lucky, if rumors that Trafficante was involved in his death are to be believed...
- Carly Silver
Mar 15, 2017 · At 7:25 p.m. on January 3, 1953, Florida Mafia boss Santo Trafficante Jr. had just finished dinner with his wife and children at his father-in-law’s house in the Ybor City section of Tampa, Florida. He walked outside and got into a 1951 Mercury sedan driven by one of his associates.
Santo, Jr. never spent a day in jail, and he died of natural causes in 1987. [5] Despite numerous unrealized ambitions, he was regarded as one of the most powerful mob bosses of the American Mafia and ruled his family with an iron fist. [1]
Mar 19, 1987 · Santo Trafficante Jr., believed to be one of the last of the old-time Mafia dons and a shadowy figure questioned in both the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and a plot on the life...
Jun 29, 2018 · Though never convicted, Santo Trafficante, Jr. was alleged to have been head of that mob from the 1950s until his death in 1987.
Mar 19, 1987 · Santo Trafficante Jr., one of the last of the old-time reputed Mafia dons, who was reportedly enlisted in 1960 in a futile effort to kill Fidel Castro, has died at the age of 72. Henry...
