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Jun 18, 2024 · When Lumia got snuffed in 1950, Santo Trafficante Sr. was well established locally with fellow Italian mobsters, and he’d entrenched himself in various business and social organizations. But he...
Santo Trafficante Sr. (May 28, 1886 – August 11, 1954) was a Sicilian-born mobster, and father of the powerful mobster Santo Trafficante Jr. Santo Trafficante Sr. gained power as a mobster in Tampa, Florida and ruled the Mafia in Tampa from the 1930s until his death in 1954.
- Bootlegging, Bolita Rackets in The 1920s
- Trafficante Rises to Boss After ‘Era of Blood’
- Kefauver Committee Causes Trouble in Tampa
- Postscript: Charlie ‘The White Shadow’ Wall
As Santo built a family and a social life, events in Tampa and elsewhere created an environment for upheaval and opportunity in the city’s underworld. With the advent of Prohibition, Tampa became a major nexus for the smuggling of rum, corn sugar and molasses from Cuba and whiskey from the Caribbean through Port Tampa Bay. It is unclear just when T...
By the early 1930s, Santo Sr. was considered one of the top Mafia powers in Tampa. The first boss of the Tampa Mafia, Ignazio Italiano, died in 1930. His successor, Ignazio Antinori, soon found himself in a war for control of the rackets with Charlie Wall, an independent racketeer known as “The White Shadow” (his nickname from local Latino resident...
In December 1950, the Kefauver Committee came to Tampa, looking, as it did in other U.S. cities, to uncover the depth of organized crime influence in the city. The committee subpoenaed leading underworld figures to testify. Santo Trafficante Sr., along with Santo Jr., skipped town to avoid the summonses. “One of the fugitives from the committee’s p...
Though the Trafficantes avoided the Kefauver subpoenas, Charlie Wall appeared. While he had been out of the rackets for a decade, Wall took time to educate the committee on the inner workings of Tampa crime during his reign. Despite his decision to testify in front of the Kefauver Committee, Wall faced no retribution in Tampa. Word was that in exch...
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. And some say it was 60 years ago July 2 that his local power was...
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Mar 7, 2018 · Charlie Wall, one of the most powerful organized crime figures in Tampa at the time of Rubio’s murder, was forced out of business in the early 1940s by Santo Trafficante Sr. One well-liked gambling house proprietor in Tampa, Evaristo “Tito” Rubio, operated the El Dorado for Charlie Wall.
The Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa crime family or the Tampa Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Tampa, Florida. The most notable boss of the family was Santo Trafficante, Jr. who ruled Tampa and the crime family with an iron fist. [1]
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Oct 9, 2005 · His uncle, the late Santo Trafficante Jr., was reputed to have been the boss of the local Mafia. The senior Trafficante's name has been linked to gambling, drug-dealing and even plots to...
