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Aug 9, 2019 · On April 18, 1955, eight months after Santo Sr. death, Walls’ wife came home to Ybor City from visiting her sister to find the 75-year-old Charlie murdered in the back room of their house, throat cut and head bashed in from a blackjack.
May 15, 2015 · Josephine Marchese Trafficante, the wife of reputed former Tampa organized crime leader Santo Trafficante, died in her sleep at home Wednesday, according to a paid obituary published by her...
Jun 18, 2024 · Photo via Library of Congress. Santo Trafficante Jr. sitting on a stool in front of his bar at the Sans Souci Night Club in Havana, Cuba. Spend any amount of time in Ybor City, and someone is...
- Ray Roa
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] .
Aug 24, 2021 · In this episode, we'll spotlight the man responsible for the Tampa Mafia's name being better known as the "Trafficante Family". Through gambling rackets, Prohibition and the international drug ...
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.
Nov 21, 2023 · Antinori recruited Santo Trafficante Sr., a bootlegger who also ran bolita parlors. With increased power thanks to Trafficante, Antinori was able to challenge Wall for control of Tampa’s rackets. Their turf war that started around 1928 would become called the “Era of Blood.”
