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Trafficante crime family. 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] Author Scott Deitche reported that Santo Jr ...
Aug 9, 2019 · Santo Trafficante Sr.’s tomb at the L’Unione Italiana Cemetery. Santo Trafficante Sr. was born on May 24, 1886, in Cianciana, Sicily. When he was 15, he boarded the steamship Vincenzo Florio and sailed from Naples to Ellis Island. From there he took a train to Tampa, already home to a sizable Sicilian population from the towns of Cianciana ...
Jun 21, 2007 · — Santo Trafficante, the top Florida mobster, to an FBI informer in August 1962. ... New Orleans and Los Angeles, as well as to two associates of Jimmy Hoffa’s. He later told the FBI that the ...
Jun 18, 2024 · Although already recognized as such by the five NYC Mafia families, by 1950 Santo Trafficante Sr. became the de facto don of what became known far and wide as the Trafficante family—Florida’s ...
- Ray Roa
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 ...
- pguzzo@tampabay.com
- Culture And Hillsborough Reporter
Jan 1, 2006 · By 1940, Santo Trafficante, Sr. was the undisputed leader of the mob in Tampa, where he prospered “in the narcotics trade, especially with the French underworld.” 37 “Trafficante [Sr.] always wanted to make it big in Cuban casinos and dispatched his son, Santo Jr., to Havana in 1946 to operate mob casinos.”
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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.
