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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.
Oct 17, 2021 · Santo Trafficante Jr. was a reserved, modest man married to the same woman for 49 years. But he was also the most powerful crime boss in pre-Castro Cuba, with influence that extended into Florida and the rest of the United States.
- Carly Silver
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]
Jul 16, 2024 · Santo Trafficante Jr. (November 15, 1914 – March 17, 1987) was the son of Santo Trafficante, Sr., the long-time boss of the family of the same name. The senior Trafficante was an influential Tampa mob figure who controlled much of the city’s gambling and bolita (gambling) ventures.
Santo Trafficante Sr. was a Florida mobster who survived a series of vicious gang wars to become the leader of a powerful Mafia crime family based in Tampa. His son, Santo Trafficante Jr., took over the crime family and became tangled in a web of conspiracies to kill the leader of revolutionary Cuba and, it is rumored, President John F. Kennedy.
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Mar 15, 2017 · Over the next 30-plus years, Trafficante, Jr. rose to oversee Mafia operations across the state of Florida. He owned and operated some of the most lavish casinos in pre-Castro Cuba. He was a well-respected boss, even among the far larger New York crime families.
Mar 19, 1987 · 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 F. Kennedy and a plot on the life...
