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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 · By Ray Roa on Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 3:17 pm. Send a News Tip. Photo via Library of Congress. Santo Trafficante Jr. sitting on a stool in front of his bar at the Sans Souci Night Club in...
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- Early Underworld Bosses in Tampa
- Trafficante Sr. and The Casinos in Cuba
- Trafficante Jr. Era
- Leadership Under Loscalzo
- Current Status
During the early 1920s, Charlie Wall created an organized crime syndicate in Tampa, where he controlled a large number of illegal gambling rackets and corrupted many Tampa government officials through bribery. Wall controlled his organization from the Tampa neighborhood of Ybor City, and employed Italians, Cubans and men of other ethnicities in his...
By the early 1940s, Santo Trafficante Sr. had taken over most of the organized crime activities in the city and started teaching his son Santo Trafficante Jr. how to run these criminal operations. Trafficante Sr. became as a successful Tampa cigar factory owner.During the late 1940s, Trafficante Sr. came under constant police surveillance and attem...
Santo Trafficante, Jr.was born in the United States on November 15, 1914, as one of five sons of Mafia boss Santo Trafficante. Santo Jr. succeeded his father as the boss of Tampa upon his death. Santo, Jr. never spent a day in jail, and he died of natural causes in 1987. Despite numerous unrealized ambitions, he was regarded as one of the most powe...
In 1987, Vincent LoScalzo became boss of the Trafficante family and Florida was declared an open territory, meaning that the Five Families of New York City could operate in any city in Florida. LoScalzo controlled a much smaller family, as over the years many of the older mobsters retired or died and few were replaced with new members. As the new b...
It was reported on November 25, 2007, Vincent LoScalzo was in his 70's and considered a semi-retired mobster and just a "regular Joe" according to Scott Deitche, author of Cigar City Mafia. The old family membership has died and the Tampa Mob has fallen into the shadows of the New York mobs. On August 5, 2008, the Tampa and New York FBI indicted Jo...
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.
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His wife, Josephine, died in 2015 at the age of 95; he is survived by two of his daughters. After the death of his wife, the Trafficante family sold their Tampa 1970-built home for $950,000. In February 2016, many of Trafficante's personal belongings were sold at an auction in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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