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Later years and death. Trafficante was summoned to court in 1986 and questioned about his involvement with the King's Court Bottle Club operated by members of the Bonanno crime family, including undercover FBI agent Joseph D. "Joe" Pistone, a.k.a. Donnie Brasco. Trafficante again escaped conviction.
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 · Santo Jr., who had inherited the leadership of the Tampa Mafia around 1950 when his father, Santo Sr., fell ill, had now completed his consolidation of power in Tampa and beyond. Over the next 30-plus years, Trafficante, Jr. rose to oversee Mafia operations across the state of Florida.
Mar 19, 1987 · From Times Wire Services. TAMPA, Fla. — 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...
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]
Oct 12, 2005 · In all, the FBI collected more than 38,000 pages of information on Trafficante Jr. in the three decades that he was the focus of state, federal and local investigations. He died after heart ...
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...
